Today’s Motto: ‘Be concerned with your character; reputation will be the automatic outcome’

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

On this day, 15 Sep ….

1846 – Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal,  as powerful  Prime  Minister  of  figurehead  Shah  Monarchy. Ranas  ruled  Nepal  until 1951  when  Shah  dynasty  took  reign of  power  back. Shah  family  rule ended in  2008 thru’  alleged  family  massacre  by Yuvaraj   Gyanendra Shah.

1916 – Britain’s 1st use of tanks in Battle of Somme. Though they made slow progress, General Douglas Haig, commander of Allied forces at the Somme, saw the promise of this new instrument of war and ordered the war department to produce hundreds more.

1928 – Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza.

1952 – European Parliament forms in Strasbourg.

1953 – S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation’s (UNO) General Assembly. She was the younger sister of India’s  first  PM  JL Nehru.

1965 – Pakistan  President Gen.  Ayub Khan appeals to the USSR  to use its influence to end Indian-Pakistani  war and ask India to vacvate occupied areas in Lahore border..

1998 – The rings around the planet Jupiter were declared to be made of dust from the impacts of cosmic bodies that crashed into Jupiter’s moons. The idea came from studies of the rings made by scientists at several institutions.

2012 – Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s.

2021 – US, UK and Australia announce trilateral security partnership Aukus, to counteract influence of China, including helping Australia build nuclear-powered submarines.

Born….   1876 – Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, legendary  Bengali novelist and thinker.   He wrote very popular   novels like Devdas,  Barididi, Pather Debi, Shesh Proshna, Parineeta, Choritraheen, Shrikanta etc. Many of his writings  and stories  were converted into Films in  Bengali, Hindi and other languages. He was awarded  Filmfare in 1978

1890 – Agatha Christie, English crime writer.

1909 – Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai,  called   ‘Anna’,   was  founder of DMK and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram.

1912 – Rusi Karanjia,  famous  Parsi  journalist and publisher of Blitz and Cine Blitz  magazines. Known for investigative political and social stories, he was  earlier  editor of Times Group magazines  and conducted famous interviews with top world leaders,  He was of communist ideology but critic of  Nehru  and  Indira Gandhi family and later  became  BJP supporter in later days.

1940 – Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis AVSM, AVM, Indian Air Force Chief. from Dec. 31, 1998 to Dec. 31,  2001. He led the  Air Force during Kargil War.  He was awarded various Defence  Ministry   decorations.

You may have known…. India achieved 100% village electrification for all inhabited villages in April 2018, a goal that was achieved when the last village was connected to the grid. Note that a village is considered electrified if public places in the village and 10 per cent of its households have access to electricity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}