Today’s Motto: ‘Keeping stiff upper lips makes it hard to Smile’
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, 13 Jun….
1420 – Jalaluddin Firoz Shah ascended the throne of Delhi.
1844 -A 
door lock was patented by Linus Yale.
1877 – Louis Pasteur began his quest to develop an anthrax vaccine by visiting the slaughterhouses of Chartres to take blood samples from corpses of farm animals that had died of anthrax.
1920 – British Post Office says children could not be sent by Parcel Post. Also know
n as General Post Office or Royal Mail.
1925 – The first telecast in the U.S. of objects in motion was invented by Charles Jenkins.
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43 – Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.
1956 – After keeping under its
control for 72 years, Britain handed over control of the Suez Canal to Egypt.
1983 – Space probe vehicle Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of 
Neptune and became the first man-made object to leave our Solar System.
1999 – The Indian army secures back the strategic Tololing Peak in the Dras sector during Kargill War.
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25 – Operation Rising Lion: Israel strikes dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear facilities, military sites and private residences, killing some senior military commanders and scientists in effort to eliminate Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Born…. 1879 – Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, freedom fighter, nationalist, and founder of the Abhinav Bharat Society. He led an armed movement against the British colonial government in India. Born in Pune, he studied Law in London, joined Gaddar Party and other Indian diaspora and conducted revolutionary activities. He was sentenced to 50 years in Jail and incarcerated in Andeman Nicobar’s Cellular Jail, and given inhuman treatment. Afler much uproar and calls for mercy for him by public figures, he was released in 1937 and restricted within Ratnagiri distt. and forbidden from making anti-British rule uttrances. He
then concentrated on Hindu awakening, for Hindu Rashtra and other social issues.
1992 – Disha Patani, an actress who works primarily in Hindi films. She made her debut in Hindi films in the sports biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016).
RIP…. 1940 – Indian Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Michael O’Dyer, who was the Gove
rnor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Bagh massacre. Born in Sunam (Punjab) he went to London for studies but joined Ghadar Party and HSRA, to fight for the cause of India’s Independence and undertook the job of punishing O’Dyer for attrocities on innocent Indians during his rule of Punjab.
2012 – Mehdi Hassan Khan, popular Pakistani ghazal and playback singer. He first got recognition in 1957 on Radio Pakistan as a thumri singer. From there his journey of success started. His Ghazal programmes started being organized all over the world. Khan left playback singing due to ill he
alth in the 1980s and kept his distance from music for a long time. In October 2012, HMV Company released his album ‘Sarhaden’, in which he also sang the song Duet wit
h Lata Mangeshkar for the first and last time.
Tidbits:…….1900 – In China, Baron von Kettler, the German Embessy official in China, beats up two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night.
You may have known…. The world’s first University was established in Takshila (now in Pakistan, near Rawalpindi) in 700 BC. More than 10,500 stud
ents from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda (Buddhist Univ. in Magadh, near Rajgriha, Patliputra) built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
