Motto for Today: ‘When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’
As each 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 A History!
On this day, Apr.30…….
1796 – The first U.S. patent for a pill of any kind was issued to Samuel Lee.
1808 – 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri (image credit-Worldkings)
1904 – Ice cream cone makes its debut at St. Louis World’s Fair invented by Ernest A. Hamwi (independently of another claimant Italo Marchiony in NY).
1945 – Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city.
1955 – Imperial Bank of India nationalised.
1991 – BJP election manifesto promises a Presidential form of government.
1993 – Tennis ace Monica Seles is stabbed by an obsessed fan.
2002 – A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years.
2013 – Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna is declared “The First Superstar of Indian cinema” at the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards.
2014 – The World Bank reports that India is now the third-largest economy behind the U.S. and China on the basis of purchasing power parity; India replaces Japan, though Japan remains in third place when GDPs are compared on an exchange-rated basis.
2018 – World’s oldest known spider, a female trapdoor, dies after being killed by a wasp sting in Western Australia, aged 43.
2020 – US President Donald Trump claims COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, while the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence saying the virus is not manmade.
2022 – Bach Long Bridge, the world’s longest glass-bottom bridge at 632m opens in Moc Chau Island Mountain park, Vietnam.
Born….
1870 – Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke. He is remembered as the ‘Father of Indian Cinema’. He produced India’s first feature film, ‘Raja Harishchandra’, and founded Phalke & Co. in Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer, and also a scene-painter.
RIP….
1030 – Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.
You may have known…. India has over 275 billion tons of coal reserves.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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