Today’s Motto: ‘In every forest of despair, there is a tree of hope’
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. 21……..
1526 – First Battle at Panipat: Central Asian conqueror Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, establishing the Mughal Empire.
1820 – Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted is the first to identify electromagnetism, when he observes a compass needle.
1878 – The first U.S. firehouse pole was installed in New York City, by Capt. David B. Kenyon to reduce the time for men to travel to the ground floor from the second floor at Engine Company 21 . Fire stations had added a second floor for a sleeping and relaxation area. Although some stations had sliding chutes, Kenyon thought a pole would be faster. With the chief’s permission, a hole was cut in the floor for a 3-inch diameter wooden pole, which Kenyon had sanded carefully and oiled.(Following its success, in 1880, the first brass pole was installed in Worchester by Charles Allen of Engine Company).
1967 – Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin’s daughter) defects in New York City. Died in Nov. 2011 . (pic credit-Wikipedia)
1975 – Farakka Barrage dedicated to Indian nation (pic credit-Shutterstock).
1989 – 100,000 students gather at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu Yaobang the deposed reform-minded leader of the Chinese Communist Party and voice their discontent with China’s authoritative 
communist government. This was the beginning of the mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Beijing prior to the Chinese Government declaring martial law in May of the same year which led to the June Massacres by Chinese troops killing hundreds of demonstrators and arresting thousands of protesters and other suspected dissidents.
1990 – The first indigenously built Indian missile cruiser boat, ‘Vibhuti’, was inaugurated and launched.
1993 – India announces establishing proof in Pakistan’s complicity in Bombay bomb blasts.
1997 – I. K. Gujral sworn in as Prime Minister of India.
2014 – Kraft Foods issued a voluntary recall of 96,000 pounds of Oscar-Meyer hot dogs that had been mislabelled. The company stated that some of their “Classic Cheese Dogs” had been placed in regular hot dog packaging, which could be dangerous for people with dairy allergies.
2019 – Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a Extinction Rebellion protest in London amid city-wide climate protests where Waterloo Bridge was occupied over four days.
Born….
1946 – Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, (Indian off-spinner), one of the famous Spin Quartet comprising Bishan S Bedi, BS Chandrasekhar,EAS Prasanna and S Venkataraghavan of Indian
cricket who ruled the game. They brought many collapses in Opp. teams and won many matches/series. He played 57 Tests (156 Wkts) and 15 ODIs (5 Wkts) and captained 1975, 1979 World Cups and was later appointed an Umpire.
1959 – Robert Smith. Iconic Pop and Rock star.
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996 – Indian Air Force Parashooter Sanjay Thapr landed on North Pole. (pic credit-Adventure Nation)
RIP….
1720 – Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath passed away and was succeeded by his son Peshwa Baji Rao I. He was a gre
at soldier and General. He was Peshwa (the PM) of Maratha Empire from 1913 to 1920 and brought about many financial reforms and faought Mughals valiently.
1938 – Muhammad Iqbal, (Converted from Kashmiri Sapru family). Famous Indian Urdu/Persian writer poet, who wrote Sare Jahan se Achha Hindostan Hamara….. poem Also known as Allama Iqbal. He died in 1938 in Lahore.
2013 – Shakuntala Devi, an Indian Mathematics genius and computer, astrologer who demonstrated her gift as an arithmetical prodigy in public performances (beginning at age 6 years old), rapidly computing answers to addition of several up to 13-digit numbers.
You may have known….
Astronomers have found a huge cloud in deep space made up of Ethyl Formate, the same chemical responsible for the flavor of raspberries.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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