Today’s Motto: ‘Be courteous to people you meet while on your Way Up…..

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

On this day, 06 Jun….

1674 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was crowned as the  King of the Maratha Empire.

1850 – Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans.

1882 – Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay) drowns 100,000.

1899 – American inventor James Ricks was issued a patent for an “Overshoe for Horses”. The invention was a rubber horseshoe “to prevent a horse from slipping in sleety weather and to secure noiseless travel when preferred, and is applied over the horseshoe in common use.”

1907 – Persil, the first household detergent, was marketed.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.

1947 – Gandhiji writes to Mountbatten, with Pakistan conceded, to persuade Jinnah to amicably settle all outstanding points with Congress.

1984 – Operation Blue Star to remove militant religious leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers hiding in the buildings of the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex in Amritsar, ended.

2004 – Tamil language  is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. It is one of the oldest languages of India, rich in literature,  culture and  mythology.

2017 – Indian author  Arundhati Roy publishes her 2nd novel “The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness” , 20 years after her first novel The God of Small Things, which had won her Bookers Prize for fiction in 1997.

2018 – The  French man  was announced to have won France’s   €1 million My Lottery for the second time in 2 years, with odds of 1 in 16 trillion.

Born…. 1890 – Gopinath Bordoloi, the first Chief Minister of Assam.  He is known as  an architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter  and  a statesman.

1929 – Sunil Dutt, actor, producer, director, and politician. Acted in successful  films  like Milan, Reshma Aur Shera,  Yadein, Mother India,  Khandaan, Raaj Tilak, Parampara, Lage Raho Munna Bhai  etc. He married  popular heroine Nargis after fire incident during  shooting  of  Mother India. His son Sanjay Dutt is also a veteran and popular actor.  He won National Award once, Filmfare twice, BFTA and other awards. He was given Padma Shri in 1968. He was also Sheriff of Bombay in  1982.

1988 – Neha Kakkar, playback singer and one of the most popular and successful female artists in the Indian music industry.  Her elder brothers Tony Kakkar and Sonu Kakkar and also popular singers.   She  became  famous after the release of  dance track “Second Hand Jawaani” from Cocktai  (pic credit-india.com).

You may have known…. Indian Americans now constitute roughly 1.6% of the total US population and account for 21% of the entire Asian American community.                                  2.  Male Java sparrows tap their beaks on hard surfaces to add beats to their birdsongs.   This species in the family Estrildidae is a resident breeding bird in Java, Bali, and Bawean in Indonesia.  It is a popular cage bird, and has been taken  to many other countries.

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