Today’s Motto: ‘Fortune is the end-product of Courage and Daring’
As Every 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 the History Books!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 15 Jun….
1215 – The signing of the Magna Carta, an old folksong sung over ages and unchanged over times (800 yea
rs). It was sign after a long war between the rebels and Royal Forces of British rulers. it was signed by King John on the bank of River Thames, in London (pic credit-livescience.com).
1785 – 2 French balloonists die in world’s 1st fatal aviation accident.
1844 – Cha
rles Goodyear patents the vulcanisation of rubber.
1867 – The first U.S. gallstone operation was performed by Dr. John Stough Bobbs, known as “the father of cholecystotomy”.
1878 – 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse’s hooves leave the ground.
1924 – Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile. 
2023 – Water pumped from underground reservoirs has shifted Earth’s axis at the North Pole by 4.36 cm a year, with over 2 trillion tons of water extracted from 1993 to 2010.
Born…. 1950 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist. Known as the Steel Baron, he owns the 2nd largest steel making company ArcellorMittal (owns 38% of the shares); though became big by several acquisitions and raising stainless steel factories. Mittal also owns 75% shares of Rajasthan Royals in 
the IPL. His net worth is estimated at $ 18 Billion.
1953 – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (2012-) and President of the People’s Republic of China (2013-). He’s also the Chairman and Head of People’s Liberation Army. Having joined the national politics in 1983 thru’ CCP, he bacame the most powerful leader of China after Mao Ze Dong as he has brought in most political, economic reforms and tough controls, making China as No. 2 World economy.
You may have known…. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. It wa
s deveoped and practiced linitially by Indian God Dhanvantri, Rishis , Charak and Sushruta. Dhanvantri is believed to have emerged out of the mythological churning of the Ocean, the S
amudra Manthan (pic credit-pujayagna.com). {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
