3-October-1831

Britishers captured Mysore.


3-October-1880

Sakuntal Sangeet  held in Anandodbhav Auditorium in Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical play in Marathi.


3-October-1890

Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born.


3-October-1903

Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born.


3-October-1906

Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay.


3-October-1907

Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri, famous Gujrati poet and critic, was born.


3-October-1913

Sudangsu Abinash Banerjee, 'Montu', cricketer, (5 wickets, 1 test vs West Indies) was born in Calcutta.


3-October-1950

India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York.


3-October-1957

Republican Party of India established.


3-October-1977

Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi.


3-October-1978

Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in  Calcutta.


3-October-1984

India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged.


3-October-1985

Morocco breaks diplomatic relations with India after New Delhi announced its recognition of the Saharwi Arab Democratic Republic.


3-October-1988

Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 months of being held captive.


3-October-1991

Ganpatrao Tapase, former Governor of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, died.


3-October-1992

Geet Sethi beats holder Mike Russel of Britain (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards championship in Bombay.


3-October-1994

Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died.


3-October-1996

National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory.


3-October-1996

Second phase of  UP polling.


3-October-1997

Devi Lal floats a new party 'Haryana Lok Dal'.


3-October-1997

Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.


3-October-1999

Insp N Gojen Singh won a 'silver' medal in 10,000 m. race and 6th position in 5,000 m. race in the 8th Asian Junior Athletic Championship ( International Level) held at Singapore.


3-October-1999

India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore.


3-October-2000

India and Russia sign a declaration on strategic partnership.


3-October-2000

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.