Today’s Motto: ‘Believe in your Infinite Potential. Your only……….

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

On this day, 01 Apr….
(April Fools’ Day, sometimes called All Fools’ Day, is one of the most light-hearted days of the year. Its origins are uncertain  (video credit-Shemaroo.com).

1867 – Antiseptic surgery introduced by physician Dr. Joseph Lister. It forever changed surgical techniques.

1869 – Income Tax was imposed in India.

1889 – The first commercial dishwashing machine was marketed in Chicago.

1890 – An electric trolley car was patented by Belgian inventor, Charles Van Depoele. (He had designed the first commercial electric railway in the US, maybe the world).

1927 – 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master’s Voice (HMV).

1930 – Government announced 15 yrs and 18 yrs as minimum marriageable age for girls and boys.

1933 – Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi. Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed.

1935 – The Reserve Bank of India was established as a Central Bank and the job of issuing notes was entrusted to this bank.

1936 – Orissa constituted a province of British India.

1954 – French settlements in India pass under Indian control.

1954 – Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee became the first Indian to become the Air Officer Commanding, India Command, now called  Commander-in-Chief, Indian Air Force (IAF). He was in this office till  Nov. 08, 1960 till his demise in Japan.

1963 – Delhi Special Police Establishment acquired its popular current name Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

1979 – US President Jimmy Carter visited the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, four days after the most serious nuclear accident in the U.S. (28 Mar 1979). He toured the control room, which was a deliberate public display of confidence by Carter that the situation was under control, in order to allay the fears of the local population of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as well as the country.

1995 – The Airports Authority of India (AAI) formed by the merger of IAAI and NAA. AAI manages five international airports, 87 domestic airports and 28 civil enclave.

2001 – The Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal. (it is also called LGBTQ+)

2004 – Google introduces Gmail. Today it  has over 1.8 billion  accounts out of 4.03 billion total and controls over 40%  of  Email market. Others areYahooMail, Zoho Mail,  Mail.com, StartMail, ProtoMail etc.

2019 – US online sales overtake retail sales for the first time.

Born…. 1889 – Dr. Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS). He was a physician, freedom fighter, Hindu/Sanatan scholar. He participated in MK Gandhi led Non-Coperation Movement of Congress Party  and Namak Satygraha  and published a newspaper in Central Provinces. He founded RSS on Gudi Padwa day, in 1925.

1936 – Abdul Quadeer Khan.  Pakistani nuclear engineer and metallurgist who led Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and missiles programme, leading to the country’s first nuclear tests on 28 May 1998. He was born in Bhopal,  India, and migrated to Pakistsn in 1952. Khan is believed to have developed nuclear program with support from former PM ZA Bhutto and some Bush Adminstration officials of the US.  He was later  suspected of selling nuclear secrets to  Osama bi Laden, North Korea, Iran, Libya etc.   and put under house arrest. He was later let off due to proof deficvit and given state honour at Death in Oct. 2021 (pic credit-oexlorador.com).

1941 – Ajit Laxman Wadekar,  stalwart Indian left-hand batsman & Capt and  a strict Manager in 1991-92.  He was the Captain of Indian team which defeated the West India and England teams in 1971. He played  3\7 Tests, 2 ODIs before retirement in 1974 . Wadekar  was honoured  with  Arjuna Award.

You may have known…. Indian Chess legend,  Viswanathan Anand is the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.

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