Year 1985
21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched.
OCTOBER 3
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3 October: 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 October.
Year 1992
Geet Sethi wins the world professional billiards championship.
Born 1672
Amar Singh II was the Maharana of Mewar Kingdom.
Born 1899
Placid J. Podipara was an Indian Syrian Catholic priest and scholar of the St. Thomas Christian community.
Born 1932
Venkata Pattabhi Raman was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu.
Born 1936
Professor Shamsuddin Rahimtoola was a Physician based out of Karachi whose area of study included Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
Born 1943
Gurcharan Das, Indian author, who wrote a trilogy based on the classical Indian goals of the ideal life.
Born 1944
Preneet Kaur,Indian politician who served in the Government of India as a Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2014.
Born 1949
Jyoti Prakash Dutta, Indian Bollywood film producer, writer and director, best known for making patriotic action war films.
Born 1953
Dipak Misra, Indian jurist who served as the 45th Chief Justice of India from 28 August 2017 till 2 October 2018.
Born 1954
Sathyaraj, Indian actor, producer, director, media personality and a former politician who has appeared in Tamil cinema.
Born 1963
Anita Dongre, Indian fashion designer and is the founder of House of Anita Dongre, an Indian fashion house.
Born 1969
Sharreth, Indian music director and singer.
Born 1975
Shruti Choudhry, Indian politician from Indian National Congress.
Born 1997
Sonia Chahal, Indian amateur boxer.
Died 1838
Mubarak Ali Khan II was born on 29 September 1810 to Ahmad Ali Khan and Nazib un-Nisa Begum.
Died 1923
Kadambini Ganguly was one of the first two female physicians from India as well as from the entire British Empire.
Died 1994
Joginder Rao was recorded incorrectly as Joginder Singh Rao throughout his career as an Indian cricketer.
Died 1995
Ma. Po. Si., Indian author and politician (b. 1906)
Died 2007
Moolayil Narayana Menon Vijayan was an Indian academic, orator, columnist and writer of Malayalam literature.
Died 2012
Muhammad Abdul Haq Ansari was an Islamic scholar from India. He was the Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind from 2003 to 2007.