Today’s Motto: ‘Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the World………

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

On this day, Sep.25…

1493 – Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America.

1639 – 1st printing press in America.

1820 – Francois Arago announced that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell, could laterally attract iron filings to itself. His discovery came in the same year that Oersted discovered that an electric current flowing in a wire would deflect a neighbouring compass needle. However, it was not until 1825 that the electromagnet in its familiar form was invented by William Sturgeon.

1857 – Relief of Lucknow by Havelock and Outram begins.

1878 – Writing against the use of tobacco, the senior physician to the Metropolitan Free Hospital wrote in The Times newspaper in Britain. Dr. Charles Drysdale pointed to “the enormous consumption of tobacco in all European states.” He estimated that £15,000,000 was spent annually in Great Britain on tobacco. He concluded “that the use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time.”

1897 – 1st British bus service opens in London.

1932 – Poona Act signed by Madan Mohan Malaviya and B R. Ambedkar in India, reserving legislative seats for depressed classes (photo credit – Guardian). 
1947 – Kashmir accedes to Indian Union.

1956 – The world’s first transatlantic telephone cable system began operating (Clarenville, Newfoundland to Oban, Scotland). Previous cables had been limited to telegraph transmissions.

1965 – Beatle cartoon show begins in U.S.

1974 – Scientists first reported that freon gases released from aerosol spray cans were destroying the ozone layer.

1984 – Indian Army withdraws from the Golden Temple; repair of Akal Takht complete.

2000 – A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985 (pic credit – India Today).

2017 – First ever woman graduates from the US Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer Course.

Born….

1914 – Chaudhary Devilal, former deputy Prime Minister of India and leader of farmers.

1916 – Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay, great litterateur, philosopher and social worker. (He was one of the most important leaders of the Bhartiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of the present day Bhartiya Janata Party. While he was a student at Sanatan Dharma College, Kanpur in 1937, he came into contact with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) through his classmate Baluji Mahashabde.

He met the founder of the RSS, K. B. Hedgewar, who engaged with him in an intellectual discussion at one of the shakhas. He dedicated himself to full-time work in the RSS from 1942.

1920 – Satish Dhawan, Indian aerospace engineer and Chairman of ISRO.

1939 – Feroz Khan, Bollywood actor.

1946 – Bishan Bedi, cricketer (mighty slow left-arm spinner 1966-79; pic credit-The Hindu).

1977 – Divya Dutta, Bollywood actor.

You may have known….

India does not have a National Game.

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