Today’s Motto: ‘No one can make us feel inferior without our consent’
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 History Book
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 31 May….
1884 – To improve the vegetarian diet of his hospital patients, Kellogg accidentally left a pot of boiled wheat to stand and become tempered. That was the beginning of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co.
1907 – Taxis 1st began running in New York City.
1917 – 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball).
1941 – Electric eye detectors were first used to measure high-jumping height attained.
1941 – 1st issue of “Parade” by a school drop out, goes on sale. This was one of the leading American journals having over 80 million readership at one time in 2022.
1970 – Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, (then East Pakistan), had turned two million people into refugees into India. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn’t afford to.
1987 – Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes th
e 25th state of India.
2021 – China’s ruling Communist Party announces it will allow married couples to have three children, in effort to boost falling birthrates.
Born….1725-Ahilya 
Bai Holkar, was the ruler Queen of Indore who got into control of Maratha state after death of her husband and father-in-law Malhar Rao in wars against mughals, Ahmedshah Durrani-Rohilla of South. She fought many battles successfully and de fecto ruled over Indore from April 1767 to August 1795. She was a Hindu religious ruler who established or renovasted many temples, Dharamshalas or Ghats in Kashi, Shree Somnath, Mallikarjuna,, Omkareshwar, Shree Vaijnath, Shree Nagnath, Shree Trimbkeshwar, Kanchipuram, Mahakaleshwar, Char Dham including Kedarnath, Badrinath, Haridwar, Mathura and Ayodhya and m
ore. She had a Devasthan Trust and officer to execute charitees (pics credit-eng.haryanastory). 1928 – Pankaj Khirod Roy, cricketer (opener, had a record 413 runs partnership with Vinoo Mankad). Recipient of Padmashree (1975).
RIP…. 2002 – Subhash Gupte, one of the finest leg break spinners and googlie expert cricketer. He played 36 Tests with 149 wickets, 115 First Class matches he took 530 wkts with average of 23.71. (including 10 for 78 runs in 1954.) He was honoured with CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award in 2001.
You may have known….
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made –Albert Einstein. (Indian maths legend Srinivasa Ramanujan)
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan
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