Today’s Motto: ‘Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.’

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

On this day, June 07……..

1753 – The British Museum was founded, the world’s oldest public national museum.

1887 – Tolbert Lanston of Washington, DC, patented the monotype typesetting machine.

1892 – J. F. Palmer of Chicago was granted the first bicycle tyre patent for a self-healing cord tyre design.

1893 – Mohandas Gandhi, committed his first act of civil disobedience when the then 24-year-old Indian lawyer was forcibly ejected from a train at South Africa’s Pietermaritzburg Railway Station. Refusing to move to a third-class carriage while holding a valid ticket for the whites-only first-class compartment, he was pushed off the train in the middle of a winter night, his luggage hastily thrown after him. The incident would change the course of his life – and that of millions of others. Gandhi later recalled: “I was afraid for my very life. I entered the dark waiting-room. There was a white man in the room. I was afraid of him. What was my duty? I asked myself. Should I go back to India, or should I go forward with God as my helper, and face whatever was in store for me? I decided to stay and suffer. My active non-violence began from that date”.

1912 – US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane.

1958 – A seminal article that launched the widespread use of ultrasound in medical diagnosis was published in The Lancet by Ian Donald, an English physician.

1965 – Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995.

1979 – Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched.

1993 – Sai Baba escapes attempt on life. Four assailants and two bodyguards were killed.

1997 – Mahesh Bhupathi becomes the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he and Japan’s Rika Hiraki claimed the mixed doubles.

1998 – India emerges World Bank’s single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars.

2013 – According to a new study, breast milk boosts brain development by 30% compared to babies who are fed formula.

2022 – “For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid.” says World Bank President David Malpass, with prediction world growth in 2022 will slow to 2.9% (down from 5.7%).

Born….

1954 – Tiku Talsania, actor.

1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis pro.

1975 – Ekta Kapoor, television soap producer, director, MD Balaji Telefilms. She has family TV serials like Hmu Paanch (2005), Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki, and Kasautii Zindagii Ki to her directorial list.

1981 – Amrita Rao, model and actor (photo credit-Chirag Wakaskar)

1989 – Sheetal Pandya; she set up a world record at the age of 5 years by covering 1600 km (Delhi to Mumbai) in 50 days on roller skates).

RIP….

1606 – Guru Arjundev, fifth Guru of Sikhs.

1631 – Begum Mumtaj Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan, passed away at Burhanpur a few hours after the birth of a daughter. She was married in 1612 and the Taj Mahal was built in her memory.

You may have known….

French writer Voltaire penned most of his plays from the comfort of his bed.

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