Today’s Motto: ‘Be the change that you wish to see in the world’

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

On this day, 01 Jun….
1869 – Thomas Edison received his first patent for an “electrographic vote recorder.” The device was the first of its kind, and would enable a legislator to register a vote either for or against an issue by turning a switch to the right or left.

1874 – East India Company was dissolved.

1880 -The first pay telephone service in the United States, for public use went into service.

1923 – Both Great Britain and the United States are demanding back the loans made to France borrowed during the First World War but the french answer is both Britain and America are much richer nations and as the war was a world war they should not have to pay the money back, negotiations are continuing at diplomatic levels.

1935 – A voluntary test was introduced by the Road Traffic Act in 1934 and the first person in Britain to take the test and pass his driving test is Mr R.E.L.BEERE. The son of Mr R.E.L.BEERE. still has the certificate 00001 signed on behalf of the (then) Minister of Transport. All drivers buying a temporary driving license must now put ‘L’ plates on the car and take a driving test to get their full license.

1938 – Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents (pic credit-ulvis Alberts ).

1946 – Television licences were first issued in Britain costing £2 and included radio (radio-only licences then cost £1) and were sold at Post Offices. Television services had been suspended suspended during WW II. (A Mickey Mouse cartoon was being shown when TV service was suddenly blacked out for defence reasons on 1 Sep 1939. That same cartoon was shown on 8 Jun 1946 when television re-opened to cover the Victory Parade).

1955 – India’s Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force.

1959 – The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.

1958 – Following a long political crisis over the revolt in Algeria, Charles de Gaulle is called out of retirement to head a new emergency government as a virtual dictator for a 6 month period to bring the country back together. He ruled Fance upto 1969. (pic credit-www.vikinabia.com).

1961 – Regular FM stereo radio broadcasting with a multiplexed signal began in the U.S.

1964 – Renaming of Naya Paisa to Paisa.

1972 – Indian Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS).

1980 – CNN was launched.

1990 – In a meeting between President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev they sign a historic agreement to end production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of reserves of chemical weapons.

2001 – The king, queen and seven other members of the royal family in Nepal are shot dead after the heir to the throne Crown Prince Dipendra went on a rampage with a gun before turning it on himself.

2017 – US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Born…. 1929 – Nargis, legendary and a fine  film actress (born as  Fatima  Rashid to a converted Brahman Punjabi family of  Uttamchand Mohanchand of Rawalpindi, Punjab.   Known for films like  Ramayani, Aag, Mela, Raat Aur Din, Adalat, Chori Chori, Barasat,  Shri 420, Awara, Mother India, Andaaz, Taqdeer,  etc.  Though she did most films with  much  iconic romance and  comic  hero Raj Kapoor, yet she married Sunil Dutt (as Nirmala Dutt)  after a fire accident during Mother India shooting.  She was awarded  Padma Shri,  a National  2  Filmfare awards, and Best Actress of the Millennium award  by Hero Honda and film magazine Stardust.  Nargis was also  nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1980  but  she died of Cancer on May 03, 1981.  (pic credit-vagabomb.com).

1970 – R. Madhavan (Balaji Ranganathan), actor, producer, and screenwriter. Acted mostly in Hindi,  Tamil , Kannada   and English  films like Alai Payuthe,  Breathe, Saala Khadoos,  3 Idiots, Vikram Vedha, Ghar Jamai, Banegi Apni Baat,  Rang De Basanti, Guru, Tanu Weds Manu etc. and several TV serials. He has won a National Film award, 5 Filmfare South and is  current President of FTII Pune.

RIP…. 1996 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, politician, became 6th President of India. He was the first Chief Minister of Andhra,  Union Minister and Speaker of Lok Sabha twice.  He  had  contested the President of India post  on Congress ticket  in  August 1969 but was defeated  by PM Indira Gandhi due to political  reasons. Yet he was elected to the post inJuly 1977 as Janata Party  candidate  but elected  unopposed.

You may have known…. Today, there are more than 7,100 different languages in use around the world.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         {Compiled by  Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}