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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 |
| 06/04/1947 | Dharmanand Damodar Kosambi, internationally famous Pandit of Buddhism, passed away. |
| 02/10/1897 | Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P). |
| 08/06/1920 | Star Films Ltd., Bombay, was founded by Ardeshir M. lrani and Bhogilal K. M. Dave. |
| 04/17/1904 | Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija, cricketer, pioneer Indian Test opening batsman, Right Arm Bowler and played 3 matches, was born at Karachi. |
| 01/01/1972 | Indian states abolished the previous rulers of Privy purses and privileges. |
| 08/14/1947 | Pakistan was partitioned from India. Gandhiji hailed the following day as one of rejoicing for deliverance from British bondage. |
| 08/01/2000 | The Lok Sabha adopts Uttar Pradesh State Reorganisation Bill paving the way for the creation of Uttaranchal the 27th State. |
| 04/30/1909 | R. Shankar, politician, journalist and former Chief Minister of Kerala, was born. |
| 08/01/1953 | All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International. |
| 05/06/1971 | India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war. |
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