Today’s Motto: ‘Those who command themselves, can command others too’

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

On this day, Sep.11…….

1822 – The Catholic Church finally officially accepted the Copernican principle, and that on 22 Jun 1633 Italian scientist Galileo had been imprisoned fo

r championing it. It was not until 1835 that the Vatican removed Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems from its list of banned books. Finally on 31 Oct 1992, the Catholic Church admitted that Galileo had been correct.

1875 – 1st newspaper cartoon strip.

1893 – First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago, Indian monk Swami Vivekananda gives influential speech

1906 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term “Satyagraha” to characterise the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

1928 – 1st TV drama; ‘Queen’s Messenger’ was telecast.

1940 – Hitler begins operation Seelöwe (Sealion – aborted invasion England).

1946 – The first mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation took place between Houston, Texas and St. Louis, Missouri.

1948 – Indian Government troops enter in the Hyderabad State. By 1948 when almost all princely states had acceded to India, this most powerful and wealthiest principality chose independence. The Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII hoped to maintain this with an irregular army of Razakars. The Nizam was also beset by the Telangana uprising, which he was unable to subjugate. Operation Polo, the code name of the Hyderabad ‘Police Action’ was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the State of Hyderabad and overthrew its Nizam, annexing the state into the Indian Union.

1951 – Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It took 16 hours & 19 minutes.

1952 – The first artificial aortic valve was successfully fitted in the heart of a 30-yr-old patient.

1956 – The PM announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash.

1958 – India and Pakistan announced that most border disputes between the two countries had been settled.
1967 – China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border.

2001 – Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York’s World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and death of 2,752 people (photo below credit -MARTY LEDERHANDLER/AP)

2001 – Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board.

2012 – The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador.

2019 – Water detected for first time on planet outside our solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in “Nature Astronomy”.

Born….

1895 – Vinoba Bhave, philosopher.MARTY LEDERHANDLER / AP

1911 – Lala Amarnath, right-hand Indian all-rounder cricketer of 1930s and 40s; was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991.

RIP….

1948 – Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan.

1971 – Nikita Khrushchev, former President of Soviet Union, dies of a heart attack .

1987 – Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature.

You may have known….

It was common for both men and women to shine their heads in ancient Egypt.

 

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