Today’s Motto: ‘Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers’
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 History Book
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 26 Jun….
1498 – The bristle toothbrush was invented in China.
1721 – The first smallpox inoculations in America were given in Boston by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston when a smallpox epidemic struck.
1819 – The first US patent for a velocipede, a predecessor of the bicycle, was issued to William K. Clarkson Jr. of New York was issued to Karl Benz of Mannheim, Baden, Germany.
1914 – The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it recognizes “the validity of Indian customary marriages”.
1954 – Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbourly policy, Panch Sheel at New Delhi.
1974 – New Universal Product Code (UPC) computerised recognition system.
1975 – Citing what she called a “deep and widespread conspiracy” against her government, Indian Prime Minister 
Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency, which lasted till 1977.
1992 – India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh as per the Indo-Bangladesh agreement.
1995 – Madhya Pradesh declared “Tiger State” as it homes one sixth of the world’s tiger population.
1997 – India declares its chemical weapon stockpiles and storage facilities as part of its obligations as signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
1999 – Pakistan gave tacit admission that its fighters were involved in the Kashmir region against Indian forces.
2018 – India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour, by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Born….1888 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer. He was also a successful businessman who diversified his trade into jute, textiles, automobiles (Ambassador Cars), Banking and Finance and media. He founded UCO Bank, BITS Pilani, FICCI and took over control of The Hindustan Times in 1930s and funded it for helping Freedom movement.
RIP…. 2004 – Yash Johar, film producer. His company Dharma Productiomns produced successful films like Dostana, Agneepath, Kal Ho Na Ho, Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Mera Naam Hai Khan etc., He won a National Film award, 3 Filmfare, 2 International, 5 Zee Cine and an Apsara Film Producers’ Guild award. Titbits….
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” , (intended to mean “I am a Berliner”, but may actually mean “I am a dougnut”) speech in West Berlin.
You may have known….
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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