Today’s Motto: ‘Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important’

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

On this day, 03 Apr….

1857 – Queen Victoria declared as Queen, the Emperor  of India also.

1926 – Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta.

1932 – Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.

1933 – 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest.

1956 – PM Nehru announces that troops have been sent to control Naga tribal people in the Burmese border area, who are asking for a separate state.

1966 – First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus.

1973 – First cell phone call. The first portable phone call was placed by inventor Martin Cooper. The phone was 10 inches in height, 3 inches deep and an inch-and-a-half wide and weighed 30-oz. 

1984 – USSR satellite Soyuz T-11 carried three cosmonauts along with the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma into Space  in Salyut 7. Soyuz T-11 cum  Salut 7 was a Russian space Mission which started in May 1982 to  June 1986.  Rakesh Sharma stayed in the space station  for 7 days 21 hours 40 minutes in April 1984.

2015 – France  outlawed the hiring of models who do not meet new Body Mass Index (BMI) minimums for a certain period of time before and during a modeling job; the law aims to prevent promotion of anorexia among models and people who emulate them.

Born…. 1914 – Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India’s first Field Marshal. He was better known as “Sam Manekshaw”. He was the Chief of the Army Staff, of  Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

1929 – Nirmal Verma, a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature.

1958 – Jaya Prada, film actress and politician. Born in Rajahmundry (A.P.), she acted in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil films. Her prominent films are Bhale Krishnudu,  Deha, Dasavataram, Maharathi, Kamchor,  Sargam, Kurukshetra,  Sharabi, Sanjog  etc.  She has won 3 Filmfare awards and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.  She was a Member of Parliament from Rampur (U.P.)  from 2004 to 2014.

1973 – Prabhu Deva, dance choreographer, film director, producer and actor. Prabhu Deva   has worked predominantly in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu language films, also appeared in few Kannada and Malayalam films.

RIP…. 1670 – Tanaji Malusure, right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died during the battle of Singhgad fort.

1680 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, great Maratha emperor, patriot, soldier, freedom fighter, revolutionary, founder of the Maratha (Bhonsle) empire in Bijapur and great son of India. He faught Aurangzeb armies very valiently, was once captured and  prisoned in  Agra for a while but he escaped in a bucket of fruits and  reached Golconda, (near Bijapur) to continue fighting against moughals. He was crowned the King in 1673  and continued conquests of southern  riyasats (states) Though he could not continue the fights for long  as his son  Sambhaji betrayed him and his 2nd wife also conspired to get her son Rajaram to be  crowned as heir to Shivaji throne. Shivaji diede of stomach problems and weaknesses between  April 03 -05, 1680.

2017 – Kishori Ravindra Amonkar, a leading Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Jaipur gharana, or a community of musicians sharing a distinctive musical style. She was a performer of the classical genre khyal and the light classical genres thumri and bhajan.

You may have known…. India invented the ruler. (Rulers made of Ivory were in use by the Indus Valley Civilization period prior to 1500 BC. Excavations at Lothal (2400 BC) have yielded one such ruler calibrated to about 1⁄16 inch (1.6 millimetres). Ian Whitelaw holds that the Mohenjo-Daro ruler is divided into units corresponding to 1.32 inches (33.5 millimetres) and these are marked out in decimal subdivisions with amazing accuracy, to within 0.005 inches (0.13 millimetres). Ancient bricks found throughout the region have dimensions that correspond to these units).

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