Motto for Today: ‘A smooth sea seldom makes a skillful sailor.’
As Everyday makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Apr.01…….
[April Fools’ Day, is one of the most light-hearted days of the year. Its origins are uncertain
. Some see it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons, while others believe it stems from the adoption of a new calendar. The new calendar called for New Year’s Day to be celebrated Jan 1. Many people continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on April 1. Other people began to make fun of these traditionalists, sending them on “fool’s errands” or trying to trick them into believing something false. Eventually, the practice spread throughout Europe].
1867 – Using the antiseptic methods he introduced, English physician Dr. Joseph Lister completed a series of 11 compound fractures. His reports of these treatments in The Lancet forever changed surgical techniques.
1869 – Income Tax was imposed in India.
1869 – New Indian Divorce Act came into operation.
1889 – The first commercial dishwashing machine was marketed in Chicago, designed over a number of years by Josephine Cochrane.
1890 – An electric trolley car was patented by Belgian inventor, Charles Van Depoele. He had designed the first commercial electr
ic railway in the US (maybe the world).
1912 – The Province of Delhi was declared by a proclamation.
1924 – Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years of imprisonment.
1927 – 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master’s Voice.
1930 – Indian Government announced 15 yrs and 18 yrs as minimum marriageable age for girls and boys.
1933 – Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Five officers were inducted as
Pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed.
1935 – The Reserve Bank of India was established as a Central Bank and the job of issuing notes was entrusted to this bank.
1936 – Orissa constituted a province of British India.
1954 – French settlements in India pass under Indian control.
1954 – Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee became the first Indian to become the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. (He was in this office till 08 Nov1960).
1963 – Delhi Special Police Establishment acquired its popular current name Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
1995 – The Airports Authority of India (AAI) formed by the merger of IAAI and NAA. AAI manages five international airports, 87 domestic airports and 28 civil enclaves.
2004 – Gmail was launched.
2013 – The world’s first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan
Born….
1889 – Dr. Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS).
1941 – Ajit Laxman Wadekar, cricketer (stalwart Indian batsman & Capt. and Team Manager).
Titbits….
1938 – The first panda to live in captivity.
You may have known….
In 2000 Mel Carnahan of Missouri was elected to the US Senate despite dying in a plane crash three weeks before election day.
(Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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