Today’s Motto: ‘If everything is important, then nothing is’
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, 25 Jun….
1630 – Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop.
1658 – 6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.
1667 – 1st blood transfusion performed by French Doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys (pic credit-prensaunica.com).
1867 – Barbed wire was patented as an artificial “thorn hedge” for prairie farmers and cattlemen as natural fencing materials were scarce.
1913 – The Ghadar Party was formed under the chairmanship of Baba Sohan Singh. Sohan Singh, as one of the top of Ghadar leaders, sailed to India in the SS Namsang at the outbreak of the World War-I, in the wake of the Komagata Maru incidenced to organise a direct rebellion in India. However, on returning to India, Singh was arrested in Calcutta on 13 October 1914 and sent to Ludhiana for interrogation. He was subsequently sent to t
he Central Jail in Multan and then to Andemans for life imprisonment in Dec. 1915. His struggle for freedom continued with frequest jail terms until May -June 1948. He had joined Communist Party of India, died on Dec. 20, 1968.
1932 – Commencement of India’s 1st cricket Test vs England at Lord’s.
1947 – Ann Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” was published on this day (after her death in March 1945 at age 15 only). It sold 30 million copies and was translated into 67 languages. A German-Jewish suffered prosecution under Hitler rule and later escaped to Netherlands but caught and sent to Concentration Camps with her parents. She also wrote the Back House, the Secret Annexe, describing life in Camps.
1950 – Beginnin
g of the Korean War, between North Korea supported by China, Russia and South Korea supported by America and Western nations. The war ended on July 27, 1953.
1951 – Advent of colour TV by German physicist Oppenheimer. In India Colour TV broadcast was launched in Asian Games 1982 in Delhi.
1975 – President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in
India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day. It was not approved by the Union Cabinet, then. Indira’s younger son Sanjay Gandhi and some ministers viz., law minister Siddharth Shankar Roy, I&B minister VC Shukla, Sports minister Jagdish Tytler, DDA Vice Chairman Jagmohan etc. were believed to have supported her crucial step, to save her PM’s post. PM Indira Gandhi implemented Emergency with many hardline steps like putting Opposition leaders in jail, Press Censorship and forceful youth sterlization (vesectomy) for population control and demolition in Old Delhi’s crowded muslim areas.
1983 – India won the ‘3rd Prudential World Cup’ Cricket Championship held in England after defeating West Indies. (scores 183 Vs 140), All rounder Mohinder Amarnath was the Man of the Match with 26 runs and 3/12 wickets. Highlight of the Chamionship was 
Captain Kapil Dev’s 175 runs in crucial stage at No. 6, when upper order batsmen were at (17/5). India won that match by 31 runs and went on the win the semi-final and finals too.
2008 – Government of Uttar Pradesh reduced the stamp duty on the house and plot from 8% to 5% by making the registry cheaper.
2021 – New type of ancient human (Sapiens), announced as “Nesher Ramla Homo” belived to have lived 140,000-120,000 years ago, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals, uncovered in Ramla, Israel. 
2024 – China’s Chang’e 6 mission is the first to return samples from the far side of the moon, landing in its Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Born…. 1903 – George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair], British writer; born in 
Motihari, Bihar. He wrote the political fable Animal Farm (1944), the anti-authoritarian, a Doom’s Day prophecy novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the unorthodox political treatise The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and the autobiographical Down and Out in Paris and London.
1931 – Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 7th Prime Minister of India between 1989-90 after bla
ming PM Rajiv Gandhi govt. for Bofors kick-backs and forming a short-lived Janata Dal coalition govt. He is known for implementation of Mandal Commission leading to big protests by other deprived sections.
1974 – Karisma Kapoor, film actress. (between 1990-2004), the elder daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita. Being the grand daughter of legendary Raj Kapoor and coming from the First Family of Bollywood, she was the first lady Kapoors to enter film line despite family disapproval. She debuted with Prem Qa
idi in 1991 and acted in many blockbusters like Raja Babu, Anari, Saajan Chale Sasural, Raja Hindustani, Dil To Pagal Hai, Hero No. 1, Biwi No. 1, Judwa, Fize, Bombay Talkies, Dangerous Ishq etc. She worked in a few films after marriage to industrialist Sanjay Kapur in 2003. She has won a National Film award and 4 Filmfare awards (pic credit-wikibio.com).
1975 – Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, an officer of the Indian Army who was posthumously awarded India’s highest military honor, the Param Vir Chakra, for his audacious courage and leadership during the Kargil War in 1999.
RIP…. 2009 – Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop musi
c. He is known to have produced many music albums and became the richest selli
ng music icon beteween 1980s to 2009. His net worth was $ 3.3 billion (2016) even after his death.
You may have known…. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation). 
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
