Today’s Motto: ‘Beginning is the most important part of any work’
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 the History Books!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 11 Jun….
1184 BC – The City of Troy of Canakkale (now Turkey), was ransacked and burned by the Greek, in 
Trojan War, that took place around the twelfth or thirteenth century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans (Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. believed to be waged by Homer, in the Iliad tales. It is now a UNESCO Heritage site. (pic credit-anatolianarcheology.net).
1644 – Florentine scientist, Evangelista Torricelli described in a letter to Michelangelo, the invention of a barometer, or “torricellian tube.
1742 – Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin stove.
1866 – The Agra High Court (now the Allahabad High Court) sitated in Prayagraj, (U.P.) is established.
1928 – The world’s first rocket-propelled aircraft flight was made over the Rhon Mountains, Germany.
1946 – Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at the Centre.
1964 – The ashes of the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru were scattered throughout the country.
1976 – Indira Gandhi and Brezhnev sign the Moscow Declaration of Friendship and Cooperation.
1997 – Shooter Jaspal Rana and J. Abhijit in the men’s section and Nisha Millet in the women’s section 
adjudged best sports persons of the National Games.
1998 – Scientists deciphered the last of the genetic material of bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
1999 – India provided incontrovertible tape evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the Kargil sector. The Indian army killed 23 intruders in the Batalik and Dras sectors but lost 15 of its men.
2012 – The Nobel Prize money is reduced by 20% to Swedish Kroner 11 million (about US $1.2 m) to prevent any future undermining of capital. The prize amount is given from Nobel Foundation funds managed by the Alfred Nobel’s family and other trustees.
2021 – Pulitzer Prizes and special citation awarded to Darnella Frazier for recording the murder of George Floyd in the May 20 by American Police officers with anti-Blacks cruelty intentions, in Minnkiaspolis (U.S.).
Born…. 1948 – * Laloo Prasad Yadav, popular Bihar politician,former Chief Minister of Bihar, former Union Ralway Minister in UPA govt. A follower of Jaiprakash Narain during anti-Indira movement of 1974-77, he won Chhapra seat in 1977 on Janta Party ticket as a prominent Yadav leader. In 1990 he became the Bihar CM with support from then Dy PM Devi Lal. Following allegations of hisi invelovement in Fodde
r Scam during 1997, he broke away and formed RJD. His Party won 21 seats in 2004 and joined the UPA govt. led by Dr. Manmohan Singh as Railway Minister. It’s alleged his family was invloved in offering Raliway jobs against land plots from job seakers and for Railway tenders. He’s still facing many court cases against corruption, though his son is the LoP in Bihar. *(also published on June 09 by error).
RIP…. 1983 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, , social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist businessman and member of the Birla Family. With an investment of ₹5 million in 1919, the Birla Brothers Limited was formed. In 1926, he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly of British India. He became the founding president of Harijan Sevak Sangh founded by Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi in 1932.
2000 -Rajesh Pilto (Squadron Leader Rajeshwar Prasad,) a friend of PM Rajiv Gandhi left the Indian Air Force, became a politician, a Union Minister in Rajiv ministery. He belonged to the Bidhudi Gurjar clan of Rajasthan. He 
represented the Dausa constituency in Lok Sabha. He died in a car crash near Jaipur, (believed to be a sabotage) .
Titbits…. 1939 – Prince Philp (King) & Queen Elizabeth-II of England tasted 1st “Hot-dogs dish ” at the US President FD Roosevelt’s party (pic credit-nps.gov).
You may have known…. Of US tech workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher, 23
% came from India. (China’s share is 18%). (Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
