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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 |
| 02/10/1982 | K. R. Meher-Homji, cricket wicket keeper (one Test, one catch, no stumps), passed away. |
| 11/30/1999 | Prof. M. N. Sromovas, (83), well-known Sociologist in Bangalore, died. |
| 05/25/1933 | All young Hindus aged between 12 and 25 years were forced to carry identity cards to prevent spread of terrorism. |
| 01/18/1995 | The 4-nation non-official initiative on Arms Reduction and Disarmament concludes with Goa Declaration (also called Shanghai-II). |
| 02/09/1917 | Homi Talyarkhan, great politician, was born. |
| 09/21/1997 | I. K. Gujral and Nawaz Sharif discussed in New York the recent flare-up on Line of Control and firing across the border.The two agreed that such sources of tension should not be allowed. |
| 02/20/1863 | Pandit A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous Malyalam poet, grammer expert and Sanskrit expert, was born. |
| 01/09/1916 | Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 01/22/1901 | Nirmal Kumar Bose was born. |
| 01/10/1896 | Gangadhar Kelkar, founder of famous Raja Kelkar Museum at Pune Dinkar, was born. |
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