Today’s Motto: ‘Impatience negates perfection’

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

On this day, 3 March….
(World Wildlife Day, Celebrated annually to raise awareness about the world’s wild fauna and flora).

78 – Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Samvat started  on  Chaitra month’s date 01, 1879 Saka Era (March 22, 1957) on the recommendations of a  Committee headed by the known astrophysicist Meghnad Saha. It is  about 75 years behind  Gregorian calender and based on  old Hindu Vikrami Samvad.  There are about 30 different calenders prevelant in  India depending up religions  and regions.

1575 – Mughal Emperor Akbar’s army, led by Munim Khan, defeated the Sultan of Bengal, Daud Khan Karrani in Battle of Tukaroi, establishing Mughal control in the region.

1923 – Time magazine publishes 1st issue.

1939 – Mohandas  Karamchand Gandhi begins to fast in Rajkot (then Bombay Presidency) to protest the autocratic rule of the local Thakore Saheb and the breach of a settlement regarding democratic reforms.

1971 – Tensions escalated, marking a significant date in the events leading to the Bangladesh Liberation War.

1996 – Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal.

2008 – The Central Government launched the ‘Dhan Laxmi’ scheme to prevent female foeticide.

2009 – The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for 2nd Test against Pakistan; match was  abandoned.

Born….1839 – Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology. He founded Tata Group  having multu-sector industries. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company,  Jamshed[pur, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.

1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor of telephone  and professor.

1939 – Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alais Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties). He was a medium pacer and excellent fielder. He played 39 matches, scvoring 3 centuries and  12 half-centiuries, totalling 2,056 runs. He played in the 3rd test of 1959-60 series against Australia in Calcutta and became the fist played to have played all five days, scoring 20 and 74 in the two innings.

1955 – Jaspal Bhatti, the beloved  Punjabi  satirist and comedian known for his legendary show Flop Show, Full Tension, Ulta Pulta, Dhaba Junction etc.  which critiqued Indian bureaucracy and some films. He was an Indian television personality, scrpit writer, director and producer  known for his satirical take on the problems of the common man. He met a  fatal car accident on Oct. 25, 2012 near Jalandhar.  Bhatti was  honoured  posthumously with Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India in 2013. He has won

1967 – Shankar Mahadevan, the National Award-winning singer and music  composer,  part of the famed Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio. He  acted in 3 Tamil and one  Hindi film.He was awarded honorary Doctorate by the Bermingham City   University  in  2023.  He  composed  music  for  about  80 films  including  Mein  Hoon  Na,  Di;l Chahta Hai, My Name is Khan, 2 States etc. He has  won 2  National  Film  awards, 3  Filmfare,  Lata Mangeshkar Music Award and several  other awards.

RIP…. 1618 – Death of the sixth Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, following a 49-year reign. His rule saw the empire reach its greatest territorial extent but also begin its decline.

1948 – Dharamvir Balakrishna Shivram Moonje, prominent freedom fighter and former President of the Hindu Mahasabha from 1927-37), who was instrumental in the Indianisation of the British Indian Army. He  was associate of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Veer Savarkar. Moonje opposed MK Gandhi’s  non-violence  in Freedom Struggle and  Secularim  while Munlim leaders in Congress started demanding  their  PM  or  formation of Pakistan.  He also founded and   promoted  Sainik Schools for Indian students. He met Benito Musolini, the PM  of Italy in March 1931.

1982 – Firaq Gorakhpuri  (Raghupati Sahay), the great writer, nationalist and who established himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Josh Malihabadi, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Kaifi Azmi and Sahir Ludhianvi. His Hindi and Urdu  poetery, shayari and ghazals were  recited on All India Radio and many  Hindi films. He had done PCS/ICs but left  service and joined Freedom Movement. He was awarded Sahitya Akedmi Award in Urdu, Jnanpeeth award, Sahitya Akedemy, Ghalib  Academy, Soviet Land Nehru award and Padma Bhushan honour.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     You may have known…. Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth’s circumference.

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