Year 1812
Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
SEPTEMBER 3
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3 September: 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 September.
Year 1855
American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
Year 1995
Ram Jethmalani (lawyer and MP) launches a new party, Bharatiya Lok Panchayat, to rid the country of its evils.
Year 1999
India launches a new phase of military modernization after the Kargil conflict.
Born 1617
Roshanara Begum was a Mughal princess and the second daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Born 1926
Uttam Kumar, Indian Bengali actor, director, producer, singer, composer and playback singer (d. 1980)
Born 1952
Shakti Kapoor, an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films.
Born 1954
Govind Namdev, Indian film actor.
Born 1955
Arun Kumar Mishra, Judge of Supreme Court of India.
Born 1956
Jishu Dasgupta, Indian actor and director (d. 2012)
Born 1957
Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru), Indian yogi and author.
Born 1957
Debraj Ray, Indian-American economist whose focus is development economics.
Born 1971
Kiran Desai, Indian-American author
Born 1974
Malli Mastan Babu was an Indian mountaineer.
Born 1974
Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricketer
Born 1975
Guru Somasundaram, an Indian actor who has appeared in Tamil language films.
Born 1976
Vivek Oberoi, Indian film actor.
Born 1979
Arjan Bajwa, an Indian film actor known for his work in Hindi and Telugu cinema.
Born 1981
Kamal Kamaraju, an Indian actor who works in Telugu cinema.
Born 1987
Harshad Arora, an Indian television actor known for playing Zain Abdullah in Colors TVâs Beintehaa.
Born 1992
Sakshi Malik, Indian freestyle wrestler.
Born 1998
Amey Pandya, Indian film and television child actor.
Born 1997
Reniece Boyce, West Indian cricketer
Died 1945
Narayan Maharaj was a Hindu Indian spiritual master considered by his followers to be a sadguru.
Died 1987
Ramesh Naidu was an Indian film music composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema.
Died 2014
A. P. Venkateswaran, Indian soldier and politician, 14th Foreign Secretary of India (b. 1930)