Today’s Motto: ‘It is rare to find a genius without a mixture of madness’

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

On this day, Sep.01…….

1146 – European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time.

1689 – Russia began taxing men’s beards.

1798 – England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad.

1858 – The first transatlantic cable failed after less than 1 month of service.

1887 – Oliver Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone on this day (photo credit -Michael Buckner/WireImage).

1914 – The Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) became extinct as the last surviving bird of the colourful native American species of dove died at the Cincinnati Zoo.

1939 – Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill.

1945 – Japan surrenders ending WW II (U.S. date; 2 Sep in Japan).

1947 – Indian Standard Time was adopted.

1953 – On the Doomsday Clock on the Sep 01, 1953 cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, the hands were set at two minutes to midnight—the closest to nuclear Doomsday (midnight) they have ever been. It represented the great tension after the first Soviet hydrogen bomb test previous month (12 Aug 1953), just 9 months after the first U.S. nuclear test (1 Nov 1952). On later covers, the minute hand was moved up and back over the years, reflecting increasing or lessening urgency of concern for humanity’s catastrophic destruction. (Today it stands at 90 seconds to midnight).

1956 – Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory.

1956 – Life Insurance Corporation of India was established and all Life Insurance Business Companies were nationalized and merged in this corporation. LIC is the largest public sector company in India with huge employment and turnover.

1976 – Indira Gandhi asks for sweeping new powers at PMO  New Delhi.

1985 – The Wreck of the sunk ship Titanic is found in the North Atlantic Ocean.

2006 – Luxembourg becomes the 1st country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.

2014 – Pakistani protesters seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif briefly take over the state television station and shut it down; soldiers and paramilitary forces later regained control and restored operation.

2019 – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks for Polish forgiveness for WWII at 80th year commemoration in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw.

Born….

1908 – KN Singh, Bollywood actor-Villain (pic credit – IMDb).

1915 – Rajinder Singh Bedi, Urdu story writer and Hindi film story writer.

RIP….

1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

1999 – Dr. S. Srinivasan (58), Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (MNK ISRO) in Thiruvananthapuram.

Titbits….

2019 – Exhibition on Christian Dior (famous Haute Couture designer), sets new attendance record of almost 595,000 in seven months on closing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (pic credit -Britannica).

You may have known….

Electric blankets are so deadly that they cause around 20 deaths and 5,000 fires each year.

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