Swami Ramanand Teerth's birth anniversary today; other events recorded on October 3 in history
October 3 marks the birth anniversary of Swami Ramanand Teerth, a leader of the Hyderabad liberation movement, and several events recorded on this date.
Today, October 3, is the birth anniversary of Swami Ramanand Teerth. He was a prominent freedom fighter, leader and social reformer of the Hyderabad liberation movement. He was born on October 3, 1903, at Limgaon in Uttar Pradesh, but chose Marathwada as his field of work.
He inspired the people of the Hyderabad state to fight the oppressive rule of the Nizam. Under his leadership, the Hyderabad State Congress played a key role in the state's merger. After Independence he became a Member of Parliament and continued to contribute in political and social life. He died on January 22, 1972. His ideas have had a major influence on the educational development of Marathwada.
Events on October 3 in the history of India and the world: in 1670, Shivaji Maharaj plundered Surat for the second time. In 1778, British navigator Captain James Cook reached Alaska. In 1932, Iraq gained independence from the United Kingdom. In 1935, Italy, led by General De Bono, defeated Ethiopia.
In 1942, a German V-2 rocket reached a record altitude of 85 km (46 nautical miles). In 1949, WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, began broadcasting in Atlanta. In 1952, the United Kingdom successfully tested a nuclear weapon and became the third country in the world to have one. In 1962, under Project Mercury, American astronaut Wally Schirra was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard Sigma 7 on a six-orbit flight.
In 1985, the space shuttle Atlantis made its first flight, on STS-51-J, carrying two DSCS-III satellites. In 1990, East Germany and West Germany were reunified. In 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the American economy.
Among those born on this date, besides Swami Ramanand Teerth, are Narhar Sheshrao Pohnerkar in 1907, who wrote essays, short stories, novels and poetry, and who died on September 2, 1990. Nobel Prize-winning American economist James Buchanan was born in 1919 and died on January 9, 2013. Australian cricketer Ray Lindwall was born in 1921 and died on June 23, 1996. Fred DeLuca, co-founder of Subway restaurants, was born in 1947 and died on September 14, 2015. Film director J. P. Dutta was born in 1949.
Among those who died on this date are Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, in 1867; French mathematician Edouard Lucas in 1891; and humorist, satirist and columnist Dattatraya Tukaram Bandekar in 1959. Indian writer and politician Mylapore Ponnusamy Sivagnanam died in 1995, Sony Corporation founder Akio Morita in 1999, and Indian journalist and writer M. N. Vijayan in 2007. Kedarnath Sahni, former Governor of Sikkim and Mayor of Delhi, died in 2012.
