Historical Events January 3.
1496 : Leonardo da Vinci’s flight experiment failed.
1925: Benito Mussolini became a dictator of Italy.
1929: Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Irwin.
1943: Information about missing people broadcasted for the first time on television.
1947: The first televised telecast of the proceedings of the US Parliament took place.
1952: First national elections in independent India.
1957: Hamilton Electric launched the world’s first battery-powered wristwatch.
1968: Launch of the country’s first meteorological rocket Maneka.
1993: USA and Russia agreed to halve their nuclear weapons numbers.
2020: An American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport killed the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
Famous Birthdays and Birth January 3.
1730: Rani Velu Nachiyar, a queen of Sivaganga estate. She was the first queen to fight against the British colonial power in India.
1760: Veerapandiya Kattabomman, an 18th-century Telugu Palayakarrar and chieftain in Tamil Nadu.
1831: Savitribai Phule, an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra.
1883: Clement Attlee, a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1892: J. R. R. Tolkien, an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic.
1921: Chetan Anand, a Hindi film producer, screenwriter, and director from India.
1938: Jaswant Singh, a retired officer of the Indian Army and a former cabinet minister.
1986: Navneet Kaur Rana, an Indian film actress who mainly acts in Telugu films.
Death Anniversaries January 3.
1322: Philip V, the King of France and Navarre.
1867: Elias Howe Jr., an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.
1903: Alois Hitler Sr., an Austrian civil servant and the father of Adolf Hitler.
1972: Mohan Rakesh, an Indian writer of Hindi literature.
1975: Lalit Narayan Mishra, a former Minister of Railways in the government of India.
2000: Sushila Nayyar, an Indian physician, veteran Gandhian, and politician.
2002: Satish Dhawan, an Indian mathematician, and aerospace engineer, widely regarded as the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India.
2017: H. S. Mahadeva Prasad, an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka.
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