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This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!

On this day, Apr.18…….

1336 – The famous Vijaynagar Hindu Empire, Deccan region of South India is founded. European visitors are overwhelmed by the wealth and advancement of its 17-square-mile capital. (Feature image credit-Viator)

1910 – The first night airplane flight made in the U.S. was made by Walter R. Brookins in Montgomery, Alabama.

1917 – 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster).

1917 – Gandhi saw one of his testing grounds of Satyagraha in Champaran. He defied section 144 of Criminal Act.

1925 – The first Woman’s World’s Fair in U.S. was officially opened in Chicago, For eight days, it displayed women’s progress in 70 industries. This showed diversification since the 1893 World’s Fair, where the only example of woman’s handiwork was the sewing exhibit.

1925 – The first U.S. commercial transcontinental fax was sent from San Francisco to New York City.

1930 – Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da.

1934 – 1st “Washateria” (laundromat) opens. {self-service laundry, coin laundry or coin wash is a facility where clothes are washed and dried.

1966 – James M. Schlatter applied for a patent for artificial sweetener “Peptide Sweetening Agents” , an invention which eventually led to the marketing of aspartame under the name NutraSweet.

1991 – Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.

2000 – A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, constitutes a Group of Ministers to review the national security system in its entirety in the light of the recommendations of the Kargil review committee.

Born….

1904 – Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group.

1916 – Lalita Pawar, actor. (Amboo alias Lalita Pawar was born in Indore. She will be always remembered as a leading film actress and character artist. Her first film was ‘Ganimi Kawa’ in 1928). (pic credit-IMDb)

1956 – Poonam Dhillon, actor.

RIP….

1859 – Tatya Tope. His original name was Ramchandra Raghunath Tope. A leader of ‘Sepoy Mutiny’, was captured, court-marshalled and hanged at Sivpuri for 1857 war of independence.

1955 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. Recognised in his own time as one of the most creative intellects in human history.

1978 – Sardar Sobha Singh, famous builder of modern New Delhi.

Titbits….

1987 – An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air.

1994 – Brian Lara scores 375 for WI vs England to beat Sober’s record.

You may have known….

Scientific study showed that pigeons could be trained to tell whether a painting was by Monet or Picasso.

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