On this day, 03 May...
1375 BC - The oldest recorded eclipse occurred, according to one plausible interpretation of a date inscribed on a clay tablet retrieved from the ancient city of Ugarit, Syria.
1764 - Mir Kasim, with the backing of Delhi Emperor, attacked Patna but this weak Emperor was defeated by Britishers. Britishers became the rulers of Bengal, the richest province of India.
1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.
1862 - Paper currency introduced in the U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln.
1913 – Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. Produced, directed and co-screen-written by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, whom we today respectfully call Dadasaheb Phalke, the first full-length feature film changed the way India saw entertainment and popular culture forever. Promotion statement for Raja Harishchandra read, “A performance with 57,000 photographs. A picture two miles long. All for only three annas.” The film was a success and ran for 23 days in the only theatre it was released - Coronation Cinema. A year later, the movie was screened in London as well. Interestingly, those days females did not like acting. Phalke struggled to get a woman, including nautch girls, to agree to act in the film. Not succeeding, he had to cast a delicate-looking man to play the role of Queen Taramati, Harishchandra's wife. Phalke discovered Salunke, who used to work in a restaurant as a cook, for this role. Salunke would later play the role of both Rama and Sita in Phalke's 1917 film Lanka Dahan and become the most popular actor and actress of his time!
1939 - Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian freedom fighter, formed the All India Forward Block.
1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.
1945 - Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
1947 - Indian National Trade Union Congress Intuc was established.
1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.
1968 - Dr. Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States on Everett Thomas.
Born
1896 -Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, lawyer, jurist, and politician, Indian former Minister of Defence.
1920 – Achala Sachdev, actor.
1952 - Aruna Irani, actor.
1959 – Sadhvi Uma Gulab Singh Bharti activist and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
RIP
1969 – Zakir Hussain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India.
1981 – Nargis, Indian actress.
1995 - Bomb attack on the train in Assam (27 soldiers killed).
2006 – Pramod Mahajan, politician.
Titbits
1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, New York City (admission 1cent).
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