Motto of Today: ‘Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.’

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

On this day, Sept. 06….

1774 – British Government supported Peshwa Raghunath Rao to re-conquer Pune.

1819 – A U.S. patent for a profile lathe was issued to Thomas Blanchard of Middlebury, Connecticut. It was capable of manufacturing irregular forms, such as gun stocks.

1879 – Telephone Company Ltd opened the first public British telephone exchange in Lombard Street, London using Edison’s system. The exchange served just eight subscribers with a two-panel Williams switchboard. Between the connected offices, private conversations could be made in either a loud or a low tone. (The service was in effect an exclusive club, to which members paid a subscription – hence the origin of the term “subscriber).”

1886 – Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO). (It is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat).

1892 – The first gasoline tractor to be sold in the U.S. was shipped by its builder, John Froelich of Froelich, Iowa to Langford, South Dakota, which lacked easy access to a wood or coal supply for steam-powered units. There, it spent a season threshing from 24 Sep to 16 Nov of the same year. His 16-horsepower machine was geared for both forward and reverse motion.

1916 – 1st true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee, US.

1920 – 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight (Boxing).

1941 – All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star.

1947 – The aircraft-carrier Midway became the first U.S. vessel from which a long-range rocket was launched. Accompanied by scientific observers, a captured German V-2 rocket was fired from the flight deck from a position at sea several hundred miles of the east coast of the U.S. the rocket travelled about 6 miles. A ship launch test was only conducted once.

1965 – India crosses into West Pakistan – official beginning of the Indo-Pakistani War. (It was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan’s Operation Gibraltar, which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against Indian rule. India retaliated by launching a full-scale military attack on West Pakistan. The seventeen-day war witnessed the largest engagement of armoured vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II).

1972 – Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre.

1997 – Princess Diana’s funeral. (Diana, Princess of Wales was laid to rest on her family estate at Althorp, following a royal ceremonial funeral at Westminster Abbey that was watched or listened to by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide).

1999 – Vyjayanthi Mala Bali, actor and former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP.

2018 – India’s Supreme Court legalizes gay sex, overturning a colonial law.
Born….

1889 – Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist and leader.

1929 – Yash Johar, film producer.

1937 – Yashwant Sinha, politician.

1949 – Rakesh Roshan, film actor and producer.

1951 – Mammooty, actor.

RIP….

1970 – Arthur William Sidney Herrington, American engineer and manufacturer who developed a series of military vehicles, the best known of which was the World War II jeep.

1972 – Allauddin Khan, famous Sarod player.

2005 – Dhan Singh Thapa, winner of PVC during 1962 Indo-China war.

You may have known….
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

{Complied by Lt. Col. (R) Raj Kadyan}