Today In Indian History (3rd February)

1509- The Battle of Diu was fought on 3 February 1509 between the Portuguese and the combined forces of the Sultan of Gujarat, the Zamorin of Calicut, the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt with support from the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. The Portuguese emerged victorious. 

1816- Birth of Ram Singh, one of the famous leaders of the Kuka movement, on 3rd February, 1816. 

Initially started as a religious movement with a view to reforming the Sikh religion by purging it of the degenerate features, Kuka movement, founded in 1840 in the Western Punjab, turned into a political struggle against the British. The founder of Kuka movement was Bhagat Jawahar Mal.  

The Kuka Revolt also came to be known as Namdhari Movement. 

Ram Singh gave a call to his followers for boycott of British goods, government schools and government posts. Known to his followers as Satguru, he was deported by the British to Burma where he died in 1885.

1925 - On 3 February 1925, India's first electric train ran from the Bombay Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) to Kurla Harbour.

1928 - Simon Commission, also known as the Indian Statutory Commission, came to Bombay in India on 3rd February in 1928 to study constitutional reform in the country.

Simon Commission was a group of seven members of the British Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. One of the members of the commission was Clement Attlee, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when India became free.

It was in a protest in Lahore against the Simon Commission that Lala Lajpat Rai succumbed to the injuries on 17 November 1928 received by him. 

1954- On 3 February 1954, Prayag Kumbh Mela stampede took place at Kumbha Mela in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh on the day of Mauni Amavasya (New Moon). The stampede in which hundreds of people lost their lives took place in the first Kumbh Mela after India's Independence.