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Date: 3-Jan-2022

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

 "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure".

Colin Powell

 

Events that took place on this day in history 3 January

*In 1653,
The Coonan Cross Oath (Koonan Kurishu Satyam in Malayalam language), taken on 3 January 1653, was a public avowal by members of the Saint Thomas Christian community of modern-day Kerala, India that they would not submit to the Jesuits and Latin Catholic Portugese dominance in ecclesiastical and secular life.

*In 1911,
The Government of India announces that emigration to Natal, Southern Africa, is prohibited with effect from 1 July.

Famous people that have birthdays on this day in history 3 January

*In 1753,
Pazhassi Raja was known as Kerala Varma and was also known as Cotiote Rajah and Pychy Rajah. He was a warrior Hindu prince and de facto head of the kingdom of Kottayam, otherwise known as Cotiote, in Malabar, India, between 1774 and 1805. His struggles with the British East India Company is known as the Cotiote War. He is popularly known as Kerala Simham (Lion of Kerala) on account of his martial exploits.

*In 1831,
Savitribai Phule
was an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra. She is regarded as the first female teacher of India. Along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, she played an important and vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is regarded as the mother of Indian feminism. Savitribai and her husband founded one of the first Indian girls' school in Pune, at Bhide wada in 1848.

Famous people that have death anniversaries on this day in history 3 January

*In 1972,
Jatindra Charan Guha 
popularly known by his ring name Gobar Guha , was a world-famous Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani. He was the first Asian to win the World Light Heavyweight Championship in the United States in 1921.
Gobar Goho developed his own style of wrestling which took Indian wrestling into newer heights.

*In 2002,
Satish Dhawan was an Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer, widely regarded as the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India. Born in Srinagar, Dhawan was educated in India and further on in United States. Dhawan was one of the most eminent researchers in the field of turbulence and boundary layers, leading the successful and indigenous development of the Indian space programme.