3 January in Indian and World History
3
January in Indian and World History is celebrated,
observed, and remembered for various reasons. 3 January is the birth
anniversary of Rani Velu
Nachiyar, Savitribai Phule, Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, Jaswant Singh
Jasol, and Jaipal
Singh.
3 January is also observed as the death anniversary of Mohan Rakesh, Satish Dhawan, and Acharya Parshuram Chaturvedi.
Birth Anniversary
3 January in Indian history is celebrated as the birth
anniversary of the following personalities:
Rani Velu Nachiyar (3
January 1730 – 25 December 1796) was a queen of Sivaganga estate from c. 1780–1790.
She was the first Indian queen to wage war with the East India
Company in India. She is known by Tamils as Veeramangai (“brave
woman”).
Savitribai Phule (3
January 1831 – 10 March 1897), the first principal of India’s first girls’
school and the founder of the first farmers’ school. Mahatma Jyotiba is
regarded as one of the most important figures in the social reform movement in
Maharashtra and India. She is known for her efforts to educate women and
downtrodden castes. Jyotirao, who later came to be known as Jyotiba, was
Savitribai’s mentor, mentor, and supporter. Savitribai lived her life as a
mission. Whose purpose was to get widow marriage, eradicate untouchability,
women’s emancipation, and educate Dalit women. She was also known as the ‘Adikavitri of Marathi’. Phule was born
on 3 January 1831.
Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (3
January 1927 – 21 April 2015), an Indian politician and a senior leader of the
National Congress. He became the Governor of Assam in 2009. Patnaik was the
Chief Minister of Odisha from 1980 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 1999 as a
leader of the Indian National Congress. Before Naveen Patnaik, he had the
record of being the Chief Minister of Odisha for the longest time. He was born
on 3 January 1927.
Jaswant
Singh Jasol (3 January 1938 – 27 September 2020), a senior politician
of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was known for his humility and morality. He
was one of the few leaders who got the opportunity to become Defense Minister,
Finance Minister, and Foreign Minister of India. Jaswant Singh was known as an
idealist. When he was assigned the charge of foreign policy, he skillfully
defused the tensions between India and Pakistan. His maturity and respect for
his ideas are clearly reflected in his writings. Jaswant Singh loved mingling
with people and was also a trustee of several projects like hospitals, museums,
and water conservation. He was born on 3 January 1938.
Jaipal Singh (3
January 1903 – 20 March 1970), one of the famous players of Indian hockey. The
period from 1928 to 1956 was the golden era for Indian hockey. He was appointed
as the captain of the Indian hockey team in the 1928 Olympic Games held in
Amsterdam. In this Olympics, India got the gold medal for the country under the
leadership of Jaipal Singh. Jaipal Singh was born on 3 January 1903.
Death Anniversary
3 January in Indian history is observed as the death anniversary
of the following personalities:
Mohan Rakesh (8
January 1925 – 3 January 1972), a writer of the ‘Nai Kahani Movement’. The rise
of Mohan Rakesh on the horizon of Hindi drama took place at a time when the
tide of the cultural renaissance was pulsating in every walk of life in the
country in the 1950s after independence. His plays not only changed the taste,
tone, and level of drama but also influenced the direction of Hindi theatre. In
the modern Hindi literary period, Mohan Rakesh, away from his writings, brought
Hindi literature closer to the theater and made himself equal to Bharatendu
Harishchandra and Jaishankar Prasad. He died on 3 January 1972.
Satish Dhawan (25
September 1920 – 3 January 2002), an Indian rocket scientist. He had a very
important contribution in taking the country’s space program to new heights.
Apart from being a great scientist, Professor Satish Dhawan was also a great
human being and a skilled teacher. He had great faith in Indian talent. Satish
Dhawan was given the responsibility of the country’s space program after Vikram
Sarabhai. He was also appointed the chairman of ‘ISRO’. Professor Dhawan had made many positive changes in the
Indian Institute of Science. He inducted young talent from his country as well
as abroad in the institute. He also started many new
departments and inspired the students to research in diverse fields. Due to the
efforts of Satish Dhawan, the dream of communication satellite INSAT, remote
sensing satellite IRS and Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV was realized. He
died on 3 January 2002.
Acharya Parshuram Chaturvedi (25
July 1894 – 3 January 1979), a diligent scholar, researcher, and critic. He was
born in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh. He was educated at Allahabad and Varanasi
University. He was a lawyer by profession but had a keen interest in spiritual
literature. He was a scholar of many dialects of Sanskrit and Hindi. He died on
3 January 1979.
Notable events on
3 January in Indian and World history
3 January 1621 – The
great scientist Galileo discovered the telescope.
3
January 1833 – Britain occupied the Falkland Islands
in the South Atlantic.
3 January 1894 – Rabindranath
Tagore inaugurated the ‘Poush Mela’ at Shantiniketan.
3 January 1901 – The
Brahmacharya Ashram at Shantiniketan opened.
3 January 1911 – The
Postal Savings Bank in America was inaugurated.
3 January 1920 – The
Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh was transformed into Aligarh Muslim
University.
3 January 1920 – Peace
treaty between Turkey and Armenia.
3 January 1929 – Mahatma
Gandhi met Lord Irwin.
3 January 1954 – an
earthquake in the African country of Algeria killed 1400 people.
3 January 1956 – Damage
caused by a fire at the top of the Eiffel Tower in France.
3 January 1957 – The
electric clock was displayed for the first time in Pennsylvania, USA.
3 January 1959 – Alaska
was declared the 49th state of the United States.
3 January 1962 – The African
country of Uganda became a republic.
3 January 1968 – The
country’s first meteorological rocket ‘Maneka’ was launched.
3 January 1971 – Indo-Pakistan
war started and the President declared a national emergency.
3 January 1974 – The
constitution of Burma (now Myanmar) was adopted.
3 January 1991 – Israel
reopened its consulate in the Soviet Union after 23 years.
3 January 1993 – The US
and Russia agreed to halve their nuclear arsenal.
3 January 1993 – START
II Treaty was signed by US President George Bush and Russian President Boris
Yeltsin.
3 January 1998 – The
National Assembly of Pakistan approved Islamic Sharia law as the country’s
supreme law.
3 January 1998 – the
Algerian Islamic uprising killed 412 people.
3 January 2002 – The
Nobel Prize in Physics was announced jointly to Raymond Davis of America and
Koshiba of Japan.
3 January 2006 – Google
announced the acquisition of YouTube.
3 January 2007 – Margaret
Chan of China took over as Director-General of the World Health Organization.
3 January 2012 – Pakistan’s
peace Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai was shot by terrorists.
Source:observoice.com
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