Today’s Motto: ‘Anything that feels impossible, deserves a second look’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book.
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Apr. 06……….
648 BC – The earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by Greeks was observed.
1722 – Peter, the Great ends tax on men with beards. (A beard tax is one of several taxes introduced throughout history on men who wear beards. Russia did so in line with the Western European models. The tax levied depended upon the status of the bearded man. Those who paid the tax were required to carry a “beard token”. To enforce the ban on beards, the tsar empowered police to forcibly and publicly shave those who refused to pay the tax. Resistance to going clean shaven was widespread with many believing that it was a religious requirem
ent for a man to wear a beard. (pic credit-Britannica)
1869 – Isaac Hodgson received a U.S. patent for his “roller-skate,” with a padded shoe attached to the skate frame.
1889 – The Kodak Camera was placed on sale by George Eastman (pic ccredit-George Easdtmen Museum).
1912 – The electric starter first appeared in cars.
1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike against the Rowllatt Act.
1925 – 1st film shown on a British Air flight.
1938 – Du Pont researcher Roy J. Plunkett and his technician Jack Rebok accidentally discovered the chemical compound polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), later marketed as Teflon. It was patented later, on 4 Feb 1941. (Teflon is also a nickname given to persons, particularly in politics, to whom criticism does not seem to stick).
1966 – Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India. (He was the first Indian to conquer the E
nglish Channel in 1958 and the only man to earn the distinction of swimming the Oceans of the five continents in one calendar year, 1966).
1980 – Post It Notes, introduced.
1993 – In Russia, a huge radioactive cloud was released from an explosion of a tank of radioactive waste at the secret military facility at Tomsk 7. Located in the Russian wilderness, 1700 miles east of Moscow, it was the worst nuclear accident, though not the only one, since the incident at Chernobyl on 26 Apr 1986. A week later, delegates at a meeting in Tokyo from the world’s richest nations, agreed to give urgent help to Russia for problems with nuclear waste, obsolete nuclear missile warheads, and aging nuclear reactors.
1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
2000 – The Indian Government permits use of LPG as auto fuel.
2016 – First baby born with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico.
2016 – France passes legislation making it illegal to pay for sex.
2019 – First ever “Marsquake” seismic event on planet Mars detected by NASA’s InSight lander.
Born….
1931 – Suchitra Sen (born Rama Dasgupta), legendary Bangla and Bollywood actor. She acted in Aandhi, Devdas, Bombai ka Babu, Agni Pariksha etc.. She was given Banga Bhushan award in 2012, (video credit-Gaane Sune Unsune)
1956 – Dilip Vengsarkar, cricketer and prolific batsman (pic credit-ESPNcricinfo).
RIP….
1664 – Harkhishan Singh, eighth Sikh Guru who became Guru at the age of five after death of his father Guru Har Rai. Died at the young age of seven. due to smallpox infection, while curing his followers (pic Credit-SikhNet)
1993 – Divya Bharati, famous Hindi film actress. Acted in Deevan, Vishwatma, Shola Aur Shabnam, Dil Aaashna Hai, Dil ka Kya Kasoor etc. She won Filmfare and Nandi awards in 1992-93. (Bharti died at the age of 19 after falling off the balcony of her five-story apartment in Versova. Her cause of falling was never officially confirmed).
2011 – Sujatha, legendary South actor who acted in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi films .She won Filmfare and othet cine awards.
Titbits….
1868 – Brigham Young, a Church and political leader of Vehemont, USA, marries his 27th wife. By the time of his death, the most famous polygamist he had married 55 wives, had 59 children by 16 of his wives; 46 of his children reached 
adulthood. However, it is suspected that not all of the 55 marriages were conjugal. (Ann Eliza Young was one of his fifty-five wives and later a critic of polygamy. She spoke out against the suppression of women and was an advocate for women’s rights during the 19th century).
You may have known….
The world’s oldest ‘Yo Mama Joke’ is carved on a 3,500- year-old Babylonian Tablet.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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