Year 1857
Queen Victoria was declared Queen of India also.
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3 April: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 3 April.
Year 1922
Joseph Stalin became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Year 1926
Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, and wounding 100 in Calcutta.
Year 1932
Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.
Year 1946
Sagarmal Gopa, devoted patriot, freedom fighter and political worker, was burnt alive.
Year 1956
Nehru announces that troops have been sent to control Naga tribal people in the Burmese border area, who are asking for a separate state.
Year 1966
First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus.
Year 1973
Martin Cooper, a researcher at Motorola, made the world’s first mobile call.
Year 1975
Bobby Fischer refused to play in a chess match against Anatoy Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
Year 1984
Bombay beat Delhi in the first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.
Year 1984
Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi.
Year 1988
Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan
Year 1992
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), was formed.
Year 1992
Nagaland brought under President's rule.
Year 1994
S.Bangarappa, former CM, launches his Karnataka Congress Party.
Year 1999
India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
Year 2000
INS Aditya, an all-India fuel tanker, entered the Navy’s fleet.
Year 2010
Apple released the first version of the iPad, a tablet computer.
Year 2016
The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, revealed the confidential information of about 2, 14,488 companies.
Year 2018
YouTube headquarters shooting.
Born 1781
Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (d. 1830)
Born 1903
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, an Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
Born 1903
Maniben Patel, an Indian independence movement activist, and Politician.
Born 1912
M. Varadarajan, educationist and author, was born at Tirupattur.
Born 1914
Sam Manekshaw, the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War.
Born 1934
Jane Goodall, an English primatologist and anthropologist.
Born 1950
Jayprakash Shankarrao Mundada, cabinet Minister of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, was born.
Born 1952
H. C. Verma, an Indian experimental physicist, and a professor.
Born 1954
K. Krishnasamy, Indian physician and politician
Born 1955
Hariharan, an Indian playback, bhajan, and ghazal singer.
Born 1962
Jaya Prada, an Indian film actress, and politician.
Born 1973
Prabhu Deva, an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer, and actor.
Born 1973
Nilesh Kulkarni, Indian cricketer
Died 1325
Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya, a Sunni Muslim scholar and Sufi saint.
Died 1670
Tanaji Malusure, the right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, passed away during the battle of Singhgad fort.
Died 1680
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, an Indian warrior-king and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan.
Died 1700
Sikandar, former Sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals.
Died 1978
Pandit Hridaynath Kunzru, social reformer, and politician passed away.
Died 1987
S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.
Died 1998
Mary Cartwright, a British mathematician.
Died 1998
Harkisan Mehta, a Gujarati author, and journalist from India.
Died 2012
Govind Narain, Indian politician, 8th Governor of Karnataka (b. 1917)
Died 2017
Kishori Amonkar, a leading Indian classical vocalist.