Today’s Motto: ‘Diligence is the mother of good luck.’

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

On this day, Jun.04…………

780 BC – The first total solar eclipse reliably recorded by the Chinese was noted.

1070 – Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France.

1783 – The Montgolfier brothers demonstrate the first hot air balloon.
1794 – Joseph Priestley, chemist and natural philosopher, (he had discovered oxygen on 1 Aug 1774) arrived at New York having emigrated from England. He also created soda water.

1887 – The Pasteur Institute was founded in Paris, France.

1903 – Gandhiji established the weekly journal “Indian Opinion.”

1907 – Automatic washer & dryer introduced.

1926 – Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax.

1929 – George Eastman demonstrated the first Technicolor movie.

1937 – The first shopping carts were introduced at the Humpty Dumpty supermarket in Oklahoma City, invented by the store owner Sylvan Goldman.

1941 – Indian National Seva Dal was established.

1987 – A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India.

1989 – Thousands die in the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China. .(photo credit-NPR)

1993 – The Babri tribunal strikes down ban on RSS and Bajrang Dal and upholds outlawing of VHP.

2018 – US President Donald Trump tweets “I have the absolute right to PARDON myself”.

2019 Movement in Japan to end compulsory wearing of high heels in work places trends with hashtag #KuToo.

Born….

1936 – Nutan, actor.

1936 – Bina Rai, actor (video credit-Biography & Real Life Story)

1959 – Anil Ambani, businessman.

RIP….

1989 – Melville de Mellow, eminent broadcaster. (I can still clearly recall the 27 May 1964 AIR 1:00 pm news bulletin, that I heard in our Kupwara Battalion mess in J&K. Breaking the news of Nehru’s death in an emotional voice Melville’s first four words were, “The light is out”).

You may have known….

There are more venomous fish in the world – more than 1200 species – than there are venomous snakes.

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