🙏 Om Shri Ganeshaya Namah: 🙏
🙏 Shubh Prabhatam Ji 🙏
Panchang – Highlights of historical events up to January 3, 2023:
📝 Today’s Date 👉
📜 January 3, 2024
🌅 Wednesday
🏚 As per New Delhi 🏚
🇮🇳 Shaka Samvat- 1945
🇮🇳 Vikram Samvat- 2080
🇮🇳 Month- Pousha
🌓 Phase- Krishna Paksha
🗒 Tithi- Saptami – Until 19:50
🗒 Followed by- Ashtami
🌠 Nakshatra- Uttaraphalguni – Until 14:46
🌠 Followed by- Hasta
💫 Karana- Bava – Until 19:50
💫 Followed by- Balava
✨ Yoga- Shobhana – Day and Night
🌅 Sunrise- 07:14
🌄 Sunset- 17:36
🌙 Moonrise- 24:08
🌛 Lunar Sign- Virgo – Day and Night
🌞 Solar Transit- Uttarayan
🌞 Hemisphere- Southern
💡 Abhijit- None
🤖 Rahukala- 12:25 to 13:43
🎑 Season- Hemant
⏳ Direction- North
✍ Special 👉
🔅 Today, Wednesday 👉 Pousha’s Seventh until 19:50, followed by Ashtami. Bhanu Saptami festival, Sarvarthsiddhiyog/Karyasiddhiyog from 14:46 until sunrise, Sarvadoshanashak Raviviyog until 14:46, Savitribai Phule Jayanti (Women’s Liberation Day, ‘Girl’s Day’ in Maharashtra), Rani Srimati Velu Nachiyar Birth Anniversary, Shri Janaki Vallabh Patnaik Jayanti, Shri KuriaKose Ilyas Chavara Memorial Day, and Shri Satish Dhawan Memorial Day.
🔅Tomorrow, Thursday 👉 Pousha’s Eighth until 22:07, followed by Navami. Shri Kalashtami Vrat.
🎯 Today’s Wisdom 👉
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Vihaaravasthodyaana-
Kooparaamasabhaprapaaḥ।
Vapraanaaṃ caiva kartaaras-
Te naraḥ svargagaaminaḥ॥
★Mahabharat Anushasan Parva 23
Meaning 👉
Those who create places of leisure, residences, gardens, wells, courtyards, dharmashalas, and rest areas for others go to heaven.
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Important events that occurred on January 3:
- 1496: Leonardo da Vinci, rich in versatile talent, attempted unsuccessfully to build an airplane.
- 1521: Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X on January 3, 1521, through the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
- 1621: The great scientist Galileo Galilei discovered the moons of Jupiter.
- 1749: Benning Wentworth established the province of Vermont, leading to the foundation of New Hampshire grants.
- 1777: George Washington’s army defeated the British forces in New Jersey.
- 1797: The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and the Tripolitan Barbary States, was signed in Algiers.
- 1815: France, Britain, and Austria formed an alliance against Russia and Prussia.
- 1833: Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
- 1852: China took its first step into aviation by launching a balloon.
- 1870: Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.
- 1894: Rabindranath Tagore inaugurated the ‘Poush Mela’ in Shantiniketan.
- 1901: The Brahmacharya Ashram was opened in Shantiniketan.
- 1910: A general strike in Britain advocated for an 8-hour workday.
- 1911: The first broadcast about missing persons was made on television.
- 1920: The Creater College, an Anglo-Oriental college, was transformed into Aligarh Muslim University.
- 1925: Benito Mussolini declared dictatorship in Italy.
- 1929: Sir Don Bradman scored his first century in a Test match against England in Melbourne.
- 1929: Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Irwin.
- 1943: The first information about missing persons was broadcast on television.
- 1948: An explosion on a Chinese ship killed 1100 people.
- 1950: The National Chemical Laboratory was inaugurated in Pune.
- 1954: An earthquake in Algeria killed 1400 people.
- 1956: A fire on the upper floors of the Eiffel Tower in France caused damage.
- 1957: The United States officially recognized Alaska as the 49th state.
- 1968: India launched its first weather rocket, ‘Menaka.’
- 1971: The Indo-Pakistani War began, leading to the declaration of national emergency by the President.
- 1974: The constitution was accepted in Burma (now Myanmar).
- 1991: Israel reopened its diplomatic mission in the Soviet Union after 23 years.
- 1980: Afghan President Babrak Karmal justified the Soviet invasion.
- 1990: Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.
- 1991: Eight officials from the Iraqi Embassy in Britain were expelled.
- 1993: U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) to limit nuclear weapons.
- 1995: A fire in a school in Dabwali, Haryana, India, claimed the lives of 360 people.
- 1998: 412 people were killed in the Algerian Islamic insurgency.
- 1998: The Islamic Sharia law was implemented as the supreme law in Pakistan.
- 2000: Calcutta was officially renamed Kolkata.
- 2002: In a meeting of foreign ministers in Kathmandu, India presented evidence against terrorists and criminals related to Pakistan.
- 2004: Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee attended the 12th SAARC Summit in Islamabad.
- 2004: Flash Airlines Flight 604, a Boeing 737, crashed near Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing all 148 people on board.
- 2005: The U.S. announced a $62 million aid package to provide clean drinking water to tsunami-affected people in Tamil Nadu, India.
- 2007: Margaret Chan from China became the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
- 2008: Indo Asian Fusegear Limited announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art switchgear plant in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, with an investment of ₹40 crores.
- 2008: Fifteen new temporary members, including Libya, Vietnam, Croatia, Costa Rica, and Burkina Faso, were chosen for the United Nations Security Council.
- 2009: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan won a vote of confidence in the assembly.
- 2013: A suicide bombing in the Mussyib area of Iraq killed 27 people from the Shia community and injured 60.
- 2015: Approximately 2000 people died in a terrorist attack by Boko Haram in Baga, northeast Nigeria.
- 2019: Facebook was accused again of intruding into people’s lives.
- 2019: Pakistan declared the Hindu religious site Panj Tirath a national heritage.
- 2020: The Chief Minister of Gujarat inaugurated the unveiling of the world’s second-largest statue, 50 feet tall, of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Ahmedabad.
- 2020: Hillary Clinton was appointed as the new Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast in Ireland.
- 2020: President Trump lifted the 10-year ban on Pakistani military training in just over a year.
- 2020: Taiwan rejected the “one country, two systems” formula from China, stating, “We are a free country and will remain so.”
- 2020: Indo Asian Fusegear Limited announced the commencement of a new green hydrogen blending project in the PNG network.
- 2023: Captain Shiva Chauhan became the first active-duty female officer posted to the world’s highest battlefield, Siachen.
- 2023: The first transgender woman in American history was sentenced to death.
- 2023: NTCPWC started the facility of improving the online address based on ‘Head of the Family.’
- 2023: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 108th Indian Science Congress (ISC) through a video conference.
- 2023: UPIDAI started the facility of improving the online address based on ‘Head of the Family.’
People born on January 3rd:
1698 – Birth of Italian author and poet Pietro Metastasio.
1730 – Velu Nachiyar was the queen of Shivaganga state during the years 1780-1790.
1831 – Savitribai Phule, social worker, the first female teacher in India, and the first female poet in Marathi.
1836 – Munshi Naval Kishore, founder of Asia’s oldest printing press, born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
1884 – Beluru Myle Rajappa Shrikantayya, an Indian writer, author, and Kannada literature translator.
1888 – Bhupati Mohan Sen, mathematician (Padma Bhushan awardee).
1903 – Jaypal Singh, one of the famous hockey players in India.
1915 – Chetan Anand, renowned film producer-director.
1927 – Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, former Chief Minister of Odisha.
1936 – Kedarnath Chaudhary, a renowned Maithili language novelist.
1938 – Jaswant Singh, a prominent Indian politician.
1941 – Sanjay Khan, Bollywood actor.
1954 – Bhageshri Chakradhar, acclaimed artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan.
1967 – Sanjeev Kumar Singari, became a member of the Lok Sabha.
1977 – Gul Panag, model, and popular Bollywood actress.
1981 – Naresh Iyer, a playback singer from Mumbai.
2000 – Birth of Indian football player Boris Singh Thangjam.
Passings on January 3rd:
1871 – Kuria Kose Elias Chavara, Syrian Catholic saint and social reformer in Kerala.
1875 – Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer and encyclopedist.
1923 – Jerry Votava, a young poet from Czechoslovakia, died of tuberculosis.
1972 – Mohan Rakesh, playwright, and author.
1979 – Parshuram Chaturvedi, scholar and literary critic.
1984 – Dr. Brahma Prakash, an Indian scientist.
2002 – Satish Dhawan, renowned Indian rocket scientist.
2005 – J. N. Dixit, Indian government officer.
2013 – M. S. Gopalakrishnan, famous Indian violinist.
2017 – Halahalli Shrikanth Shetty Mahadev Prasad, an Indian politician from Karnataka.
2020 – Death of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force in an American airstrike.
2021 – Demise of the famous poet and author Anil Panachooran.
2022 – Vice Admiral SH Sharma, who led the Eastern Command of the Indian Navy in the 1971 war against Pakistan.
2023 – Jain Muni Sujnyasagar Maharaj (72), who opposed turning Jain Tirth Sammed Shikhar into a tourist place, passed away.
2023 – Laxman Jagtap, BJP MLA from Chinchwad, passed away.
2023 – Shyamal Ghosh (71), former Indian footballer who represented the national team in the 1970s, passed away.
2023 – Renowned Indian classical singer Sumitra Sen (89) passed away.
2023 – Walter Cunningham (90), an astronaut from NASA’s Apollo 7 mission, passed away.
Important Events and Festivals on January 3rd:
🔅 Savitribai Phule Jayanti (Women’s Liberation Day, ‘Girl’s Day’ in Maharashtra).
🔅 Birth anniversary of Rani Velu Nachiyar.
🔅 Birth anniversary of Janaki Ballabh Patnaik.
🔅 Kuria Kose Elias Chavara Memorial Day.
🔅 Satish Dhawan Memorial Day.
Please note:
Although efforts have been made to prepare this with care, I am not responsible for any events, dates, or other errors.
Have a auspicious day! 🌻