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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 10/03/1831 |
Britishers captured Mysore. |
| 10/03/1880 |
Sakuntal Sangeet held in Anandodbhav Auditorium in Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical play in Marathi. |
| 10/03/1890 |
Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born. |
| 10/03/1903 |
Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born. |
| 10/03/1906 |
Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
| 10/03/1907 |
Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri, famous Gujrati poet and critic, was born. |
| 10/03/1913 |
Sudangsu Abinash Banerjee, 'Montu', cricketer, (5 wickets, 1 test vs West Indies) was born in Calcutta. |
| 10/03/1950 |
India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York. |
| 10/03/1957 |
Republican Party of India established. |
| 10/03/1977 |
Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi. |
| 10/03/1978 |
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. |
| 10/03/1984 |
India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged. |
| 10/03/1985 |
Morocco breaks diplomatic relations with India after New Delhi announced its recognition of the Saharwi Arab Democratic Republic. |
| 10/03/1988 |
Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 months of being held captive. |
| 10/03/1991 |
Ganpatrao Tapase, former Governor of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, died. |
| 10/03/1992 |
Geet Sethi beats holder Mike Russel of Britain (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards championship in Bombay. |
| 10/03/1994 |
Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died. |
| 10/03/1996 |
National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory. |
| 10/03/1996 |
Second phase of UP polling. |
| 10/03/1997 |
Devi Lal floats a new party 'Haryana Lok Dal'. |
| 10/03/1997 |
Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas. |
| 10/03/1999 |
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. |
| 10/03/1999 |
India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore. |
| 10/03/2000 |
India and Russia sign a declaration on strategic partnership. |
| 10/03/2000 |
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. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 03/25/1916 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born. |
| 03/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 09/26/1999 | Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science. |
| 03/01/1996 | Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case. |
| 12/21/1956 | The Hindu Adoption Sub-Act 1956 was accepted. |
| 12/06/1987 | MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force. |
| 11/20/1888 | Gurunath Bewoor, director general, was born at Bewoor village, district Bijapur. |
| 04/30/1947 | The entire nation is stirred by religious strife. |
| 12/04/1898 | Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Scientist and Physicist-Philosopher, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/08/1985 | The first summit was held at Dhaka. (7 0r 8). |
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