Today’s Motto: ‘What lies behind us and what lies before us are……..

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

On this day, 21 Jun….
1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine, recognized as the first such practical machine. Although it did the work of six men, it was very difficult to popularize, and it took until 1841 before McCormick sold his first two machines.

1838 – Discovery of the stereoscopic viewer.

1853 – The first U.S. patent for a commercially successful “Envelop-Folding Machine” was issued to Dr. Russell L. Hawes of Worcester.

1854 – First Victoria Cross won during the Crimean War ny Lucas. Gien by the British for extraordinary valour in fighting for the Crown. (pic credit-jewishmuseum.org.uk)

1893 – The first Ferris wheel premiered at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, America’s third world’s fair.

1913 – The first successful parachute jump from an airplane by a woman was made by Georgia Broadwick, age 18.

1921 – The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations.

1948 – The first stored-programme computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, SSEM, ran its first programme. Written by Professor Tom Kilburn, it took 52 minutes to run. The tiny experimental computer had no keyboard or printer, but it successfully tested a memory system developed at Manchester University in England.

1948 – The first successful long-playing microgroove phonograph records (33 1/3 RPM) were introduced.

1948 – Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy).

1948 – C. Rajagopalachari was appointed the first Indian Governor General of Indian union (After January 25, 1950, this post was abolished).

1998 – India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power stationn at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu.

1999 -Top Indian tennic player   Leander Paes was seeded number one in double’s ranking. This was his highest double ranking.

2004 – Mike Melvill became the first civilian to pilot a craft into space.

2023 – US approves chicken made from animal cells – the country’s first lab-grown meat, aimed at reducing harm to animals and the environment.

Born….  1953 – Benazir Bhutto, 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 1st female PM of a Muslim nation. She was the daughter of former Pak PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (a controversial leader, as he refused to accept  his Pary’s defeat  by East Pakistan’s Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman, leading to formation of Bangldesh in 1971.)

RIP….

1940 – Dr.  Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS). He founded RSS on Vijyadashmi Day in 1925 to raise Hindu society’s awareness in the light of rising  fundamentalist Muslim  belligerance to get India, a Muslim nation status  under MA Jinnah and the other mainline political Party Congress promoting  a Centrist ideology with tilt towards Muslim thought.  Ultimately India was devided in 1947 into two,  the Islamic Pakistan and the   ‘secular India’.

You may have known….

USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not  Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, Marconi was an Italian scientist who worked on  magnetic signals and long distance radio frequescy transmission.  Prof. Bose also worked in Germany and Europe but could not patent his research papers. Marconi was awarded Nobel Prize in 1909 for Wireless Telgraphy.   

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