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.