Today’s Motto: ‘Things are beautiful if you love them’

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

On this day, 19 Jun….

240 BC – Eratosthenes, a Greek astronomer and mathematician, estimated the circumference of the earth.

1829 – Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies).

1841 – An underwater torpedo operated by electric current was described by its inventor, Samuel Colt in a letter to U.S. President John Tyler. The invention markwed the beginning of torpedo.

1888 – Thomas A. Edision, with co-inventor Ezra T. Gilliland were granted a patent for “Railway Signaling”.

1900 – Michael Pupin was granted a U.S. patent for long distance telephony (pic credit-pixel.com).

1931 – Installation was completed on the first commercial doors operated by photoelectric cell.

1949 – People of Chandernagar, the French Indian Settlement, decided to merge with the Indian Union.

1966 – Shiv Sena was established. Balasaheb Thackery, a journalist, cartoonist with Times of India fonuded the Political Party to counter fundamentalist forces in Maharashtra mainly.

1978 – Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip.

1981 – India’s APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched.

1999 – The ”people’s bus” from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime AB Vajpayee  Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart, Sheikh Hasina.

2024 – Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un sign a pact to “provide mutual assistance in case of aggression” in Pyongyang, bringing the countries theclosest since the Cold War.

Born…. 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, leader of the National League for Democracy and human rights activist (1991 Nobel Peace Prize).

1947 – Salman Rushdie, British Indian novelist. He wrote critical biography of Emergency period in India,  of 1975, called Mid-Night’s Children and  Satanic Verses. Both the books were bannede worldwide and attempts made to kill him by  fundamentalists.

1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Congress politician, 3 time MP. Son of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi . Had been Party President for some period and led pan-India Yatras. Desperate to revive the Party, Rahul has yet to make a  mark  in Indian  political  arena.

RIP…. 1991-  Jean Arther. American actor of silent film era, was populat from 1920-1950s.  Won several cine  awards.

1993 – William Golding. British, author, playwirite, novelist. He was awarded Nobel Prize in 1983.

Titbits….1269 – King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame.

1942 – Actress Marilyn Monroe (16) marries first husband James Dougherty (21), a policeman.(She married thrice).

1981 – Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa.

You may have known….

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India .Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century.

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