Today’s Motto: ‘Life would be unbearably dull, if we had answers to all our questions’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform, make a mark and write a Page in the History Books!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On this day, 13 Mar….
1877 – The first U.S. patent for earmuffs was issued to teen-aged Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Main
e (pic 
credit-www.denverpost.com).
1878 – The British administration passed the Vernacular Press Act, designed to curtail the freedom of the Indian-language press. Following its passage, the Amrita Bazar Patrika Bengali newspaper from Calcutta, published by Sishir Kumar Ghosh, converted into an 
English-language newspaper overnight to bypass the law. It restarted as a Bengali edn. magazine on March 13, 1922.
1940 – Indian revolutionary Udham Singh (also known as Ram Mohammad Singh Azad) shot Michael O’Dwyer in London, avenging the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
1963 – The Indian government announced the inaugural Arjuna Awards to honour outstanding achievements in various sports.
1997 – Sister Nirmala Joshi born in Ranchi, and converted to Chritianity, was elected as the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, succeeding Mother Teresa, who stepped down due to failing health. She served the organisation for 12 years. (pioc credit-believersportal.com)
2003 – The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-wa lking human have been found in Italy.
Born…. 1952 – Vijay Telang. Indian opener batsman and captain for a few matches, also coached Vidarbha Cricket Association players (pic credit-Getty Images). 
1961 -Derek O’Brien. Indian politician, leader of Trinamool Congress in Rajya Sabha, Former Indian TV Quiz Master, former journalist and author. Also addressed UN General Assembly in 2012.
1982 – Nimrat Kaur, American Indian model, Bollywood actor. She played a popular
role in American TV serial Homeland and sang a song Tera Mera Pyaar. She’s rumoured to be dating Abhishek Bachchan while playing a role opposite the junior Bachch
an in film Dasvi. She later refuted the rumours (pic credit-mid-day.com)
1984 – Geeta Basra, former model, British cinema and Bollywood actor. Acted in Mr. Joe B Carvelho, The Train:Some Lines Should Never be Crossed, Dil Diya Hai, Lock etc. She married Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh in 2015.
RIP…. 1800 – Nana Phadanvis (Balaji Janardan Bhanu), veteran commander and statesman of Peshwa Kingdom at Pune. He was decorated with title Phadnavis (Fadnavis) by Peshwa Chhatrapati Shahu after he saved Shahu ji from Moughal attack. Several films in Marathi and Hindi have been produced in Nanaji honour.
1842 – Henry Sharpnel, an English soldier and inventor of the shrapnel Shell, a spherical case designed to explode in midair, spreading its content of small lead musket balls to injure enemy soldiers over a wide area. 1940 -Michael O’ Dyer, former Governor of Punjab, was shot by Udham Singh in Caxton Hall at point-blank range in full view of a large gathering in London.
2004 – Ustad Vilayat Khan, the legendary Sitar maestro. He went abroad for music concerts abroad; South Asia, China, Europe and and the Soviet Union and was very popular with his sitar performances. But he refused to accept Sangeet Natak Akademy award calling the judges incompetent to judge his Art and Padma Shri/Padma Bhushan for similar reasons. He only accepted an award Bharat Sitar Samrat from then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. He composed music for gilms like Jaldsaghar, Guru and Kadambri (pic credit-deezer.com).
Yu may have known…. Milk production: Following the visit of late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri to the Anand district of Gujarat in 1964, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was created in 1965 with a man
date to support the creation of the ‘Anand Pattern’ of dairy cooperatives across the country through the Operation Flood (OF) programme which was to be implemented in phases. White Revolution movement was started by Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel and Dr. Verghese 
Kurien in Anand, Gujarat under the banner Gujraat Co-oprative Milk Marketing Federation during 1946-49 and established the legendary brand name Amul which now has a revenue of Rs. 55,055 crores in 2023.Today, India is the largest producer of milk in the world, contributing 23% of global milk produ
ction.
[Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
