Motto for Today: ‘Action is the real measure of intelligence.’
A VERY HAPPY BAISAKHI TO ALL. !
As each day 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.13……
1699 – Khalsa Panth was founded by the tenth Guru of Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh Ji. It was established to teach the followers that no ritual or superstition is above the Almighty and one should not fall for any superstition.
1796 – The first elephant taken to the U.S. from Bengal. She was two years old and 6-1/2 feet high, and had behaviour described as, “It eats thirty pounds of rice besides hay and straw – drinks all kinds of wine and spiritous liquors, and eats every kind of vegetable; it will also draw a cork from a bottle in its trunk.”
1919 – Jallianwala Baug massacre. The great Indian tragedy occurred in Amritsar which claimed 389 lives and wounded 1,516 activists fighting for Indian independence. This furious act was under the guidance of cruel Brigadier General R. E. H. Dyer and his 50 men troop. Michael O’ Dwyer was then the Governor of Punjab who naturally defended the action. This day is observed as Jallianwala Baug Day.
1928 – 1st trans-Atlantic flight Europe-US.
1933 – 1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale.
1939 – The Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
1970 – An explosion during the Apollo 13 mission led to one of the most spectacular rescue missions in US space history. The explosion aboard the Odyssey spacecraft left the crew stranded for four days more than 200,000 miles from Earth. Against all odds, the three astronauts and thousands of others brought the capsule safely back to Earth.
2019 – World’s largest plane by wingspan at 117m (385 ft), the Strato-launch, built as a flying launch pad for satellites, takes its first flight from Mojave, California.
Born….
1890 – Ramchandra Gopal Torne (Dadasaheb), film director. {He was the first Indian Director and Producer to make a feature film in India; that film was named Shree Pundalik. Although Torne made his first film, Shree Pundalik (1912) just under a year before Dhundiraj Govind “Dadasaheb” Phalke made his, it is the latter who is regarded as the father of Indian cinema. The distinction may lie with the fact that, unlike Phalke, Torne sent his film overseas for processing. Moreover, Torne’s Pundalik was 22 minutes long, whereas Phalke’s Raja Harischandra, ran for about 40 minutes}.
1956 – Satish Kaushik, film director.
RIP….
1973 – Balraj (Yudhisthir) Sahni, actor. {Best known for Dharti Ke Lal (1946), Do Bigha Zameen (1953), Kabuliwala (1961) and Garam Hawa (1973)}.
1982 – Pandit Parmanand, founder member of `Gadar Party’.
1993 – Lalita Devi Shastri, wife of Lal Bahadur Shastri, ex PM.
Titbits….
2012 – Indian actor Shahrukh Khan is detained by the U.S. at a New York airport for 90 minutes, angering S. M. Krishna, India’s External Affairs Minister.
You may have known….
Ambulances were operated by funeral homes in the 1970s.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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