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On this day, Apr.15……

1658 – Raja Jaswant Singh was defeated at Dharmat. He was sent by Shahjahan and Dara Shukoh to resist Aurangzeb’s advance towards Agra.

1726 – Writer William Stukeley quoted what Newton said on gravity, “It was occasioned by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself. Why should it not go sideways or upwards, but constantly to the earth’s centre?”

1770 – Dr. Joseph Priestley made the first mention in English that a piece of a rubber substance could erase marks from black-lead pencils.

1878 – Harley Procter developed Ivory Soap, which when marketed later, made Procter and Gamble a multi-million dollar business.

1896 – 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece. (Winners were given a silver medal, while runners-up received a copper medal.

1912 – The fourth dimension was spoken of by Albert Einstein as time.

1923 – Insulin became generally available for diabetics’ use.

1941 – Igor Ivor Sikorsky made the first helicopter flight over one-hour duration in his Vought-Sikorsky VS-300. It used a three-bladed main propeller 28-feet in diameter, and stayed in the air for 65 minutes and 14.5 seconds.

1946 – The original memorial was erected in Kohima, Nagaland, from local stone. (It is a memorial dedicated to soldiers of the 2nd British Division of the Allied Forces who died in the Second World War at Kohima, the capital of Nagaland in April 1944. The soldiers died on the battleground of Garrison Hill in the tennis court area of the Deputy Commissioner’s residence. There are 1,420 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War at this cemetery, and a memorial to an additional 917 Hindu and Sikh soldiers who were cremated. The memorial is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission).

1948 – Territory of Himachal Pradesh created. (The name was coined from Sanskrit him ‘snow’ and achal ‘mountain’, by Acharya Diwakar Datt Sharma, one of the State’s most eminent Sanskrit scholars).

1950 – Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his ‘Bhudan Andolan’.

1976 – India announces it will send an envoy to Peking, first time in 15 years.

1984 – Extremists plunder 40 stations in Punjab.

2000 – Baichung Bhutia became the first Asian-player to score a goal in the professional English game.

2019 – Paris cathedral Notre Dame catches fire, toppling its spire and destroying its roof.

Born….

1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer.

1563 – Guru Arjan Dev.

1919 – Marshal of the Air and former Air Chief Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC.

1922 – Hasrat Jaipuri, lyricist (photo credit-Seniors)

1972 – Mandira Bedi, actor.

1990 – Emma Watson, Harry Potter actor .(photocredit-Pinterest)

RIP….

1989 – 96 football supporters are killed in Britain’s worst-ever sporting disaster at Hillsborough.

You may have known….

The US Army has developed an algorithm for the optimal time to drink coffee.

 

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Raj Kadyan}