Today In History 2nd January: According to the Gregorian calendar, the third day of the year witnessed many important events in the country and the world. The most special thing about this day is that India’s first female teacher Savitribai Phule was born on this day. . Savitribai Phule, born on January 3, 1831, was the first principal of India’s first girls’ school and the founder of the first farmers’ school. Savitribai lived her entire life like a mission.
The sequential details of important events recorded on the date of January 3 in the history of the country and the world are as follows:-
- An important event of January 3, 1993, was that the world’s two superpowers, Russia and America, agreed to halve their nuclear weapons stockpile.
- On January 3, 2021, the number of people who lost their lives due to Corona virus infection in America crossed 3,50,000. Till this date, America has reported the highest number of deaths due to Corona virus infection in the entire world. In Brazil, 1,95,000 people died due to this deadly virus till January 3, 2021.
- In the year 2024, on January 3, 103 people died and 188 were injured in two blasts in Kerman city of Iran. The blasts took place at an event organized near the tomb of General Qasim Suleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, in Kerman on the fourth anniversary of his assassination. General Qasim Sulemani was killed in a US drone attack in 2020. This attack was called the deadliest terrorist attack in Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
- 1831: Birth of the country’s first teacher Savitribai Phule.
- 1836: Birth of Munshi Naval Kishore.
- 1880: The first issue of ‘Illustrated Weekly of India’ was published in Bombay.
- 1938: The then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt established a foundation to find a cure for polio. Roosevelt was affected by this disease in 1921.
- 1959: Alaska was declared the 49th state of America.
- 1980: Afghan President Babrak Karmal justified the Soviet attack.
- 1993: America and Russia agreed to halve their respective nuclear weapons stockpiles.
- 2001: Hillary Clinton sworn in as New York senator. She is the first former First Lady in the history of the country to achieve electoral victory.
- 2004: The spacecraft Rover Spirit, set out to explore Mars, landed on Mars to study the chemical and physical composition of the planet.
- 2004: All 148 people on board were killed when Boeing 737 flight 604 of Egyptian airline Flash Airlines crashed.
- 2014: Al Qaeda extremists damaged the police headquarters in Fallujah, Iraq and declared the area under their control as an independent area.
- 2024: 103 people died, 188 people were injured in two blasts in Kerman city of Iran.
- 2021: 23 people died, 15 injured due to roof collapse in the cremation ground in Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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