Today’s Motto: ‘If you want to be respected, respect’

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

On this day, 07 Apr….
(World Health Day).

1795 – France adopted by law, the metre as the unit of length and the base of the metric system. Jean Delambre and Pierre Méchain measured an arc of the meridian from Dunkirk to Barcelona, so that the metre could be defined as one ten-millionth part of the distance between the poles and the equator.

1827 – John Walker, an English pharmacist, recorded his first sale of the friction matches he invented the previous year. (His discovery on 27 Nov 1826 had been accidental while trying to produce a readily combustible material for a light shotgun. His first match was the wooden stirring stick he used in a mixture of potash and antimony sulphide. To remove a blob on the end of the stick, he had scraped it on the stone floor, and it ignited. He never patented the invention, and his production was limited to a sideline of his pharmacy business).

1896 – Inventor Simon Lake was issued a U.S. patent for his “Submarine Locomotive”, which he designed with underwater salvage operations in mind. It was fitted with traction wheels to travel the water-bed, and a crane hoist at the front. He improved his design with a later patent issued 20 Apr 1897. On 16 Dec 1897 he demonstrated submarine Argonaut.

1923 – The first operation to remove a brain tumour under local anesthetic (cocaine on the patient’s scalp) was performed at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City by a team of surgeons led by Dr. Karl Winfield Ney. The patient Henry A. Brown was fully conscious throughout the operation and was able to answer the doctors’ questions.

1934 – Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience.

1948 – World Health Organization formed by U.N.

1959 – The first distinguishable echo was recorded of a radar signal bounced off the Sun—considered a milestone in the emerging field of radar astronomy.

1976 – Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping. But he came back to power (1978-89) and became a reformist on hardline  policies.  He was dethroned again  in ’89 (pic credit-biografieonline.it).

1983 – It was reported that a human skeleton, believed to be perhaps a Neanderthal up to 80,000 years old, had been brought to the Smithsonian for study. It had been discovered in southern Egypt.
1997 – Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan finalise preparations for a new trade bloc called ‘Growth Quadrangle’.

2000 – The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra was put behind bars (pic credit-oldhamtime.uk.co).

2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.

2012 – 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier.

2016 – Longest-ever captured python found on Penang Island in Malaysia (8 m long).

Born…. 1770 – William Wordsworth, legendary  English romantic poet laureate, he wrote many ballard lyrics alongwith his contemporary poet Samuel  Taylor. He was awarded Poet Laurate honour by British Govt.

1920 – Ravi Shankar (Bhattacharya), renowned Sitar player. He composed numerous classical ragas and western music albums. He organised many concert abroad too and won worldwide praise, He provided music for several film like Dharti Ke Laal,  Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Vachan, Do Badan, Hamraz, Ankhen, Nikah, Gharana, Khandan. etc., His albums Sounds of India, Pather Panchali, Music and Lyrics, Gandhi, Natural Born Killers etc. are  his evergreen works.

1942 – Jeetendra (Ravi Kapoor), Bollywood  film actor known as Jumping Jack  of Indian film industry, debuted with a musical  film  by Geet Gaya Pathron Ne by V Shanta Ram and went on to perfom im dance/song  like Parichay, Caravan, Sehra, Boond Jo Ban Gayee Moti, Aasha, Jeene Ki Raah, Hamjoli, Jeene Ki Raah, Farz, Himmatwala  and Swarg Se Sunder,  Tohfa, Maqsad, Farz, Dharamveer  etc. over 200 films.  He won several Filmfare, Lifetime Achievement, Zee Cine, Sansui, Screen awards.  He also started Balaji Films, Balaji Motion Pictures, his daughter Ekta Kapoor produced several TV serials (pics credit-IMDb.com).  

1954 – Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial arts actor, film maker, martal arist.He  has acted  in   blockbuster movies like Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, Who Am I?, Shanghai Nights, Around the World in 80 Days, Polic Story..He has won several film awards from his over 200 film works and has a worth of $400 million.    (pic credit-mubi.com)

1986 – Huma Qureshi, popular Bollywood actress who has worked in  Hindi films like Gangs of Wassepur, Ek Thi Daayan, Jolly LLB,  Highway etc. and Army of the Dead in Bollywood and won a Filmfare  OTT awards and 3 nominations, .

RIP….  1860 – William Keith Kellogg, an American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods.

1947 – Henry Ford, inventor and automobile manufacturer who first experimented with internal combustion engines while he was an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company.

You may have known….

India is widely considered the birthplace of plastic surgery, with the ancient Indian physician  Sushruta, known as the “Father of Plastic Surgery,” pioneering techniques like rhinoplasty (nose reconstruction) around 600 BCE (pic credit-thespeakingtree.in).

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