Today’s Motto: ‘Mind is a flexible mirror. Adjust it to see better world’

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

On this day, Sep.30…….

1846 – Dentist Dr. William Morton used an experimental anaesthetic. Ether for the first time on one of his patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for tooth extraction.

1862 – U.S. patent was issued for a revolving turret for battleships to the inventor, Theodore Ruggles Timby. When Ericsson built the first turret battleship in the world, the Monitor, he added a turret based on Timby’s design to the ship.

1882 – The world’s first hydroelectric power plant in the U.S. was opened on the Fox River, in Appleton, Wisconsin.

1906 – The world’s first international balloon race began. It was won by a coal-gas balloon, the ‘United States’.

1907 – Motor car speed traps were protested in a letter to The Times, London. Lord Montagu wrote to challenge anti-motorist complaints as opposing progress. To combat dust cloud nuisance from traffic, he called for more suitable roads: “reserved only for motorists and rubber-tired non-animal traffic – at least between large centres of population.” About speed traps, he continued, “By all means let police-traps be placed where there is any reason to think danger may exist, but … At present, the police neglect their other duties and look upon trapping as a regular sport” producing income to local government from the £5 or £10 fines for speeds of 20 or 30 mph.

1963 – The USSR openly lauded Indian view on Kashmir issue. This was against Pakistan’s motives.

1966 – After 80 years as a British protectorate, Bechuanaland became the independent Republic of Botswana (map credit – WorldAtlas.com).

1981 – Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International.

1982 – H. Ross Perot and Jay Colburn completed the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter, the Spirit of Texas. Their journey began 29 days, 3 hours, and 8 minutes earlier on September 1.

1993 – 6.4 earthquake at Latur, Maharashtra, 28,000 killed.

1996 – Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government’s decision to rename Madras as Chennai.

2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

2019 – 315 billion-tonne iceberg named D28 calves from Amery ice shelf, Antarctica.

2022 – Vladimir Putin announces Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian provinces, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia. Despite Russia occupying only part of each region.

Born….

1837 – Pt. Shardha Ram Phillauri was an Indian writer, poet and social reformer who is remembered for his contributions to Hindi and Punjabi literature. He is best known for his Hindu religious Aarti Om Jai Jagdish Hare and Bhagyawati, one of the first novels in Hindi. He was born in Phillor, Punjab.

He also wrote Punjabi and Sanskrit books like Punjabi Baatcheet (He died on June 24, 1881 in Lahore).

1881 – Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India. (photos credit -Wickipedia)

1908 – Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist.

1922 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Bengali and Bollywood film director. He directed very popular films like Chupke Chupke, .

1972 – Shaan, Bollywood singer.

RIP….

1985 – Charles Francis Richter, an American seismologist who devised the Richter Scale that measures earthquake magnitudes, which he developed with his colleague, Beno Gutenberg, in

You may have known….

From 1907 to 1940 American women could lose their citizenship for marrying non-American men.

 

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