Today’s Motto: ‘Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself’

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

On this day, 24 Jun….

1763 – Murshidabad was captured by the East India Company under Major Adams for the second time, and thery made  Mir Jaffar Ali,  the king under a deal  for betraying his  king Siraj-ud-Daulah in the Battle of Plassey.

1812 – Napoleon’s Grand Army invades westrern parts of   Russia. It proved  as  a  big  disaster for his efforts  to   capture  Russia,  due to  long  wintry  desert  region of  Siberia  and  his  army  felt  fatigue, many died   and  others  retaracted  back  to  Europe.

1873 – Samuel Clemens (the author known as Mark Twain) received a U.S. patent for a self-pasting Scrapbook.  Earlier  in 1871, Samuel Clemens received his first patent for “An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Garment Straps”.

1930 – The first radar detection of aircraft took place (in US)

1946 – Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi. After further  parleys  Independent Govt. of India took oath on thye modnight of  Agusust 14-15, 1947.

1961 – India’s first   Supersonic fighter HF-24 Marut  added to the IAF’s  air armour. It was manufactured at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. by German engineer Kurt Tank and went  trial flight on June 17, 1961.

1963 – The first demonstration of a home video recorder was made at the BBC News Studios in London.

1974 – India all out for 42 in Lord’s Test cricket in 77 mins. With scores at England (629) and India (302 and 42 in 2 innings), it was a 3.-0 Whitewash for India. Captain Ajit Wadekar lost his  captaincy and  faded in  cricketing career.  In the 2nd India innings only Eknath Solkar could score 16* while other batsmen could not  reach double figures.

1986 – Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave.

1989 – The majority of opposition members resigned from the Lok Sabha over the issue of the CAG report on the Bofors gun deal.

1990 – Defence scientists successfully test fired country’s first third generation anti-tank missile ‘NAG’.   It’s a guided missile with an operational range of 500 m to 20 km depending on variant. It has a single-shot hit probability of 90% and a ten-years  maintenance-free shelf life. The NAG missile  has five variants.  (pic credit-MoD)

 

1991 – The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP.  It was during his reign that the  controversial  Babri masjid structure was demolished by Kar Sewaks in Ayodhya, leading to the construction  of  Ram Lalla temple in Ayodhya in 2019-24..  His govt. was dismissed by the Central  Govt. of PV Narasimha Rao.

2018 – Women drive for the first time in Saudi Arabia after ban is lifted.

Born….1885 – Master Tara Singh, freedom fighter and leader of Akali Dal. He recruited Sikhs to join the army during the First World War. As a result of this, the British Government had given separate communal representation to Sikhs like Muslims in the ‘India Act’ of 1919.

1908 – Guru Gopinath, (Perumanoor Gopinathan Pillai),  Kerala born,  renowned Indian classical dancer and teacher. Popular Ram Lila of Delhi was choreographed and designed by him.  He also got huge appreciation from  Gutru RN Tagore.  (pic credot-narthakionline.com).

1962 – Gautam Shantilal Adani, an Indian billionaire industrialist, and philanthropist  who is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group, the president of the Adani Foundation. He founded The Adani Group in 1988 and diversified his business into resources, logistics, energy, agriculture, defense, and aerospace, amongst others.

RIP…. 1980 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India. He faught as independent candidate in 1969 against official Congress candidate  Neelam Sajiva Reddy.  PM Indira Gandhi supportede him, calling it a Vote of Concience.

You may have known….    1.  Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India. 

2. In  2010 , the  Longest match in tennis history: John Isner of the U.S. defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon after 11 hours, 5 minutes of play over three days (pic credit-wikipedia).

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