Today’s Motto: A harmful truth is better than a useful lie’
WE CAN, WE SHOULD AND WE WILL MAKE INDIA GREAT AGAIN !
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 History Book!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On this day, 30 Aug ….
1831 – Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electrical transformer (pic credit-www.thoughtco.com).
1860 – 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead).
1885 – The first motorcycle was patented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany.
1914 – 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed.
1928 – Jawaharlal Nehru requests British govt. for independence of India.
1929 – Colonel E. H. Green took delivery of a new combination gas and electric automobile, built by the General Electric Company (pic credit-motortexas.com).
1963 – The “Hot Line” communications link between the White House, Washington D.C. and the Kremlin, Moscow, went into operation to provide a direct two-way communications in the event of an international crisis. This was one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1983 – Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space.
1983 – Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.
1990 – Parliament unanimously passes the Prasar Bharati Bill. (It is an autonomous bo
dy and comprises Doordarshan Television Network and All India Radio which were earlier media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (The Act passed in 1990 was not enacted until 15 September 1997).
1992 – The first Indian-built ALH (Advanced Light Helicopter) successfully flown in Bangalore.
2000 – A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the hHndloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised.
2015 – Frederick Forsyth, author of thriller novel “The Day of the Jackal”, reveals that he worked for Britain’s MI6 Intelligence Service for more than 20 years.
Born…. 1569 – Salim Mirza Jahangir, fourth Mughal Badshah and son of Akbar.HeruledHindustanfrom1605-27.
1930 – Warren Buffett (Omaha Nebraska), American business magnate, investor, philanthropist. He is cairman & CEO of his company Berkshire Hathway and world’s wealthiest person in 2008. His net worh was approx. $ 160.2 Billion in May ’25. He has also written some books on wealth creation, investment management etc.
1954 – Ravi Shankar Prasad, veteran BJP politician, senior legal luminary who faught Ram Janambhoomi case in Courts alongwith other senior team of lawyers. Hass been member of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha from Patna Saheb, since 2000 and Union Minister of Law & Justice, Coal & Mines and Min. of Information and Broadcasting the first NDA govt. under Atal Behari Vajpayee.
1976 – Chitrangda Singh, Jodhpur, Rajasthan born model, Bollywood actress. She debuted in Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi in 2005 and won the Filmfare award for Best Debutant. Se also acted in Yeh Saali Zindgi, Desi Boys, Me Aur Mein, Bazaar, Gaslight, Modern Love Mumbai, Khakee: the Bengal Chapter etc. and some TV serials like Modern Love Mumbai and more. She has won 2 Filmfare and 6 nominations.
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6 – Madam Bhikaji Rustum Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician. She was the first Indian lassy who unfurled Indian Tricolour in Stuttgart, Germany leading protesters during WWI inn 1914. She was also arrested and exiled for participating socialist and other gatherings in Europe.
1991 – Dr. P. J. DeVries, the famous Dettroit, Michigan biologist, called Friend of Snakes. Also did research studies on Butterflies, caterpillers and other insects in America, Africa, Asia and Far Eastern countries.
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s…. 1888 – Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day.
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a Canoe trip.
You may have known…. India’s official unemployment rate was 5.6% in June 2025, according to the government’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). This figure increased from 5.1% in May 2025. However, other estimates, such as from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), suggest the rate may be higher, and the headline rate is sometim
es questioned by economists.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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