Today’s Motto: ‘It is better to be ridiculous than to be boring’

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

On this day, 30 May….

1431 – Joan of Arc was executed in Ruen, Fance. She was  a folk heroine,  military commander who  believed  she had  divine sanctions  to  defend  France  from  British  attacks. She was  re-christened and established as Catholic Saint after 500 years  of her  execution  by  the British.

1856 – The first milk quality law in the U.S. was signed by the Governor of Massachusetts prohibiting adulteration of milk.

1867 – Dar-ul-Uloom was established in 1867 in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh. It came to be regarded as a vanguard of Sunni Muslim identity in the Indian subcontinent and gave rise to the Sunni Deobandi movement (pic credit-Sajjad-Bin Jamir, YouTube).

1919 – Rabindranath Tagore returned the title of ‘Sir’ in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by British  armed forces  led

1959 – The first experimental Hovercraft made its first trip. The invention was considered initially only for military use, but was released for civilian use in 1959.

1987 – Goa becomes the 25th state of India. Goa accounts for 0.11 percent of the Indian population.

1996 – 6-year-old boy Gedhun Choki Naiya was elected the new Panchen Lama.

1999 – India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.

2012 – Viswanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship. Viswanathan “Vishy” Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, a two-time Chess World Cup Champion, a World Blitz Chess Cup Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and he has the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating of all time. In 2022, he was the elected Deputy President of FIDE.  He has had an important role in popularizing chess in India.

2019 – Narendra Modi sworn in for a second term as Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi with 8,000  Guests, the largest-ever gathering at the President Palace forecourt. President Ramnath Kovind administered the oath to  PM Modi and  his cabinet  consisting of 25 Ministers of Cabinet rank and  33 Ministers of State. Guests included Heads of  BIMSTEC countries around Asia, leading  politicians including former PMs Dr. Manmohan Singh, HD Deve Gowda,  Sonia Gandhi, stae CMs and  noted industrialists Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani,  Kumar Mangalam Birla, NR Narayanamurthi and many more.  NDA led by PM Modi had a  majority  with  BJP winning 303 seats and allies adding  over 50 more  Lok Sabha members.

Born….1909 – Pandit Mukharam Sharma, a well-known screenwriter of his time in ‘Indian Cinema’. He arrived in Mayanagri Mumbai from Meerut as an ordinary person and got a great status in the film world as a writer of fiction, screenplay, and dialogue. Film distributors from all over India used to call Pt. Mukharam Sharma and ask who his next film was and with whom. At that time Mukhramji’s answer was guaranteed to sell all rights to a film overnight. Distributors and producers used to make regular visits to his house to keep track of what he was writing. He had the exclusive right to sell his stories to the producers and directors of his choice. He was the first story writer to have won the Filmfare Award for a Story in 1955. His stories for Aulad, Vachan, Sadhna, Talaq, Dhool Ka Phool, Hamjoli, Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya etc. were  super hits.

1955 – Paresh Rawal, an actor, comedian, film producer, and politician known for his works notably in Hindi and few Telugu films  like  Woh Chokri, Sir, Sardar, Arjun, Naam, Shiva, OMG,  Hera Pheri series, Hungama etc.  He acted in about 240 films and  won a National award and  3 Filmfare awards. He wa also  honoured with Padma Shri in 2014.  He was a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha representing  Ahmedabad East constituency from 2014 to 2019.

RIP…. 1606 – Guru Arjan Dev,  the Sikh  Guru and the  first  of the two Sikh Gurus martyred by the Mughals. He compiled the first official edition of the Sikh scripture called the Adi Granth, which later expanded into the Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Arjan Dev  reorganized the Masands system initiated by Guru Ram Das, by suggesting that the Sikhs donate, if possible, one-tenth of their income, goods, or service to the Sikh organizations.

1912 – Wilbur Wright, American inventor and aviator, who with his brother Orville, invented the first powered airplane, Flyer, capable of sustained, controlled flight. Wilbur Wright piloted the longest flight that day in the fourth test, fifty-nine seconds in the air and 852 feet.  In 1912 Wilbur Wright died after suffering from typhoid fever (pic credit-britannica.com). 

2013 – Rituparno Ghosh, an Indian film actor, lyricist, writer and director. Known for Unishe April, Chokhar Bali, Raincoat Ball,  Memories in March.   “Rituparno’s comparison is only Rituparno. Bengal has lost a golden man of golden era” – Mamata Banerjee’s obituary comment on her death.Rituparno  Won 10 National Film, Bengal Film awards and many other recognitions   (pic credit-MUBI)

You may have known…. Martial Arts was first created in India.   Kalaripattu in  Kerala,  Lathi Khela in West Bengal,  Gatka and Hola Mohalla  in Punjab, Kathi Samu are some of the ancient Martial arts of India. 

2.  In 1991  a  Swedish couple named their son  as   ‘BRFXXCCXXMNPCCCCLLLMMNPPOKVCLMNCKSSQLBB11116’.  They  said it was pronounced “ALBIN”.

                                                                                                         {Compiled b y Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}