March 03 : If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

On this day, 03 Mar....

78 - Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calendar started.

1575 - Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.

1821 - The first U.S. patent issued to a Black-American was granted to Thomas Jennings for a “dry-scouring” cleaning process. Jennings used his royalties to buy his family out of slavery and to support the abolition of slavery.

1883 - The first steel vessels of the U.S. Navy were authorized by Congress.

1885 - Registered mail first authorized in the US.

1892 - The first tuberculosis test on cattle in the U.S. was made by Dr. Leonard Pearson with tuberculin that he had brought from Europe.

1923 - The first radio facsimile transmission to a distant point was made in the U.S.

1923 - Time magazine publishes the 1st issue.

1939 - In Mumbai (Bombay), Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest against autocratic rule in India.

1966 - Plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in color from the following year were announced. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) would make Britain the first European country to have a schedule of color programmes.

1996 - Haryana Govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas.

2005 - Solo non-stop global flight was made by Steve Fossett. He landed from where he had taken off 67 hours earlier. (The first non-stop two-person flight around the world, was made in 1986 by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan in nine days, covering 26,366 miles without refueling).

2014 - Bill Gates is named the world's richest person in the 'Forbes' annual ranking, with a total net worth of $76 billion.

Born

1839 - Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.

1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, the great pioneer, inventor, and professor.

1939 - Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alias Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties).

1947 - Swami Chinmayanand.

1955 - Jaspal Bhatti, actor.

1967 - Shankar Mahadevan, singer.

1989 - Shraddha Kapoor, actor.

RIP

1707 - Aurangzeb, Mughal king.

1982 - Firaq Gorakhpuri "Raghupati Sahay", great writer and nationalist.

You may have known....

In the sprawling compound of the Radha Rani temple in Barsana, thousands gather to witness the Lath Mar Holi when women beat up men with sticks as those on the sidelines become hysterical, sing Holi songs and shout Sri Radhey or Sri Krishna. Even today the marriage between residents of Nandgaon and Barsana is not allowed!