Motto for Today: ‘When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.’

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

On this day, Apr.27……..

1526 – Mughal King Babur beats sultan of Delhi.
1705 – Aurangzeb captured the Fort of Vagingera.

1880 – The first U.S. patent for an electric hearing aid was issued to Francis D. Clarke and M.G. Foster, titled a Device for Aiding the Deaf to Hear.

1887 – George Thomas Morton performed the first U.S. operation to remove an appendix, an appendectomy, saving the life of a 26-year-old man with appendicitis.

1906 – China, as suzerain of Tibet, has agreed to the terms of a treaty proposed by Britain. According to the treaty, foreign powers may not send representatives to Tibet, receive transportation or mining concessions, or occupy, buy or lease any territory in Tibet without British permission. The British want to prevent the Russians from establishing a protectorate over Tibet. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, failed in attempts to communicate with Tibet’s ruler, the Dalai Lama. A British military expedition fought its way to the capital at Lhasa and concluded the agreement.

1907 – Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers.

1911 – Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi.

1918 – Gandhiji attends Viceroy’s War Conference at Delhi and addresses it in Hindustani; subsequently tours Kaira District to raise recruits for army.

1960 – Presidential orders in India were issued on the report of the Committee of Parliament on official Languages which includes issues relating to preparation of terminology (Hindi glossaries, Hindi translation of codes and procedural literature, imparting training in Hindi to employees propagation of Hindi, language of bills, language to be used in the Supreme Court and High Court etc).

1986 – Congress (I) expels former Union Minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee from the party for 6 years.

1997 – CBI decides to prosecute Bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav, former CM Dr. Jagannath Mishra, Union Minister Chandra Deo Prasad Verma and 53 others in the Rs. 950 crore fodder scam case.

2012 – The wives and children of former Osama bin Laden are deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia.

2018 – Historic Korean summit, the North’s Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons.
Born….

179 – Samuel Finley Breese Morse. He was an American artist and inventor who is famous for developing the Morse Code (1838) and independently perfecting an electric telegraph.

1857 – Jamshedji Framji Madan (J. F. Madan), founder of India’s first Cinema Hall – ‘Elphinstone Palace’ at Calcutta, Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company.

1912 – Zohra Sehgal, actor.

1919 – Ustad Allarakha Khan, great Tabla player.

RIP….

2002 – Trevor Keelor, an officer of Indian Air Force who participated in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was honoured with the Vir Chakra for shooting down Pakistan Air Force F-86 Sabre fighter.

2009 – Feroz Khan, film actor.

Titbits….

1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.

1956 – Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing.

You may have known….
Between 10 and 20% of power outages in the US are caused by squirrels.

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