Today’s Motto: ‘Be concerned with your character; reputation will come automatically’
Knowledge is the most Powerful Weapon!
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to p!erform 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, 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.
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8 – Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza. He was awarded Noble Prize fpor Physiology in 1945. (pic crerdit-fityclub).
1952 – European Parliament formed in Strasbourg.
1953 – Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected the first lady President of the eighth session of 
United Nations Organisation’s General Assembly (UNGSA). She was the younger sister of India’s first PM JL Nehru ( pic credit-stx.ox.ac.uk).
1959 – India’s national broadcasting service Doordarshan was started on this day. It began with a modest experiment in public service, telecasting on September 15, 1959. The makeshift studio and its players beamed their voice and visuals through a small transmitter, daring to dream of becoming the prime vehicle 
of development of a nation that had shrugged off its yoke of slavery just over a decade earlier. It was later braought under Prasar Bharti, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting 34 satellite channels besides providing free-to-air DTH service having 104 in its bookings. Indeed, that single studio from its small departmental home in All India Radio, Sannsad Marg ans Mandi House on Barakhamba Road, Delhi, has grown into 66 studio centers all over the country, including 17 major studio centers at State capitals and 49 oth
er studio centers located in various cities.
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. (pic taken at Tashkent USSR, before India-Pak accord 1965- credit-ar-inpriredpencil.com).
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 insti
tutions.
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. This is in addition to a four member QUAD, that includes India.
Born…. 1876 – Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, legendary Bengali novelist and thinker. He wrote very po
pular 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 honoured with Filmfare award in 1978 (pic credit-glive24.com)
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0 – Agatha Christie, was a Britiash author, known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections like Death of Nile, Murder on The Orient Express, The Seven Dials Mystry, The Secret of Chimneys etc. , particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence, and Miss Marple.
1909 – Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, called ‘Anna’, was founder of DMK a
nd former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram. He was addressed as ‘Anna’ meaning ‘elder brother’ and was the first non-Congress Chief Minister of Madras (Tamil Nadu).
1912 – Russi Karanjia, (Rustam Khurshidji), 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 also became BJP supporter in later days (pic credit-artofit.org)..
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 (pic credit-thewire.in).
Titbits…. 1930 – 1st International bridge match is held in London. U.S. team defeats England.
You may have known…. 1. During British colonial times, the legal minimum age of marriage was set at 14 for girls and 18 for boys. Child marriage was outlawed in 1929, under a law in British India. However, the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935, allowed child marriage in the Indian state of Assam, but it was repealed in 2024.
2. 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. No
te 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}
