Important Events Of January 3

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Important Events Of January 3

Birth:

  • William Wilson Morgan – American astronomer
  • Franz Cumont Franz (-Valéry-Marie) Cumont was a Belgian archaeologist and philologist
  • Robert Whitehead – British engineer who invented the modern torpedo
  • Antoine-Thomson d’ Abbadie –  First scientific explorer to travel throughout eastern Africa for 12 years.

Death:

  • Robert L. Banks – American chemist
  • Joy Adamson – Austrian naturalist
  • Reginald C. Punnett – English geneticist
  • Charles Augustus Young – American astronomer
  • Josiah Wedgwood – English inventor, artist and potter who began a new branch of the pottery industry in the early 1760’s.

Birth Anniversary Of Veerapandiya Kattabomman

  • He Was Born 3 January 1760 Panchalankurichi, Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu

  • Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th century Palayakarrar and chieftain from Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India.
  • He refused to accept the sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged a war against them.
  • He was captured by the British with the help of the ruler of the kingdom of Pudukottai, Vijaya Raghunatha Tondaiman, and was hanged at Kayathar on 16 October 1799.

January 3 is the third day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days remaining until the end of the year (363 in leap years).

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