Quick glance of 3 March in the pages of History

March 3: Here are the major events that occurred on 3 March….

• 3 March, 1575: A battle was fought at Turkra or Turkra Qasba (in the Balasore district) in which the Afghans were routed.
• 3 March, 1707: Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
• 3 March, 1839: Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
• 3 March, 1847: Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 3 March, 1891: Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created.
• 3 March, 1924: Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
• 3 March, 1931: Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.
• 3 March, 1939: Gandhi commences “fast unto death” at Rajkot to protest state’s autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler’s adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy’s intervention.
• 3 March, 1952: The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections.
• 3 March, 1983: The Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
• 3 March, 1997: Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi.
• 3 March, 1999: Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People’s War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar.
• 3 March, 2002: Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
• 3 March, 2009: The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for 2nd Test against Pakistan; match abandoned.