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On this day, 11 Sep ….

1841 – The first U.S. patent for collapsible metal tubes was issued to an artist, John Rand. His purpose was as a “mode of preserving paints, and other fluids, by confining them in close metallic vessels so constructed as to collapse with slight pressure, and thus force out the paint or fluid confined therein through proper openings for that purpose.” The idea was later reinvented in 1892 for the commercial packaging of toothhpaste.

1875 – 1st newspaper cartoon strip.

1906 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term “Satyagraha” to characterise the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

1908 – In the U.S., Orville Wright established a new flight record of 70 min. aloft.

1928 – 1st TV drama; Queen’s Messenger was telecast.

1946 – The first mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation took place between Houston, Texas and St. Louis, Missouri.

1948 – Indian Government troops enter in the Hyderabad State. (At the time of Independence in 1947, the princely states of India, who in principle had self-government within their own territories, were subject to subsidiary alliances with the British, giving them control of their external relations. In the Indian Independence Act 1947 the British abandoned all such alliances, leaving the states with the option of opting for full independence. However, by 1948 almost all had acceded to either India or Pakistan. One major exception was that of the wealthiest and most powerful principality, Hyderabad, where the Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII, chose independence and hoped to maintain this with an irregular army recruited from the Muslim aristocracy, known as the Razakars. The Nizam was also beset by the Telangana uprising, which he was unable to subjugate. Operation Polo, t

he code name of the Hyderabad ‘Police Action’ was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the State of Hyderabad and overthrew its Nizam, annexing the state into the Indian Union).

1951 – Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France . It took 16 hours & 19 minutes.

1956 – The PM Nehru  announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash in Japan  in 1945. Though millions of his followers believed he had alighted from the aeroplane  and was alive for many years  thereafter.

1958 – India and Pakistan announced that most border disputes between the two countries had been settled.

1967 – China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border.

1999 – The death of an 83-year-old man stung by a swarm of Africanized “killer” bees marked the first fatality by that cause in the state of California (USA).

2001 – Of the four passenger planes hijacked by terrorists, two crash into New York’s World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and death of 2,752 people. This event resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths and remains the largest loss of life from a foreign attack on American soil.

Born…. 1895 – Vinoba Bhave, Gandhian philosopher. Started Bhoodan Andolan and motivated  big landlords  to donate  their  surplus  lands  for  the poor  and  landless Citizens.

1911 – Lala Amarnath, right-hand Indian all-rounder cricketer of 1930s and 40s; was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991. He was first Indian to score a Test Century  for India  in 1933. He was the first Captain of Indian team after Independence, in a Test  series  played against  Australia in 1947-48 and later against Pakistan in 1952. He played 21 Tests and scored over 10,000 runs in First Class matches with 30  Centuries. He was awarded Padma  Shri, CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award. His two sons Mohinder and Surinder played Test cricket for India and 3rd son Rajinder played in Ranji and  First Class tournaments.,

RIP…. 1948 – Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan. He started  movement  for separate state for muslims living in India after he lost the post of  premiership to JL  Nehru in interim Govt. of 1946.

1987 – Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest writer, poet of modern  Hindi literature. She was a great   freedomfighter and wrote patriotic poems, story books like  Nihaar, Deepshikha, Neerja, Sandhyageet, Agnirekha and prose Shrinkhla Ki Kadiyan, Smriti Ki Rekhayen, Ateet Ke Chalchitre, Mera Parivar etc.   She was awarded Padma Vibhiushan, Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship and many other honours.

1997 – Lightning killed 19 persons and injured 6 in Andhra Pradesh.

You may have known…. India has made significant progress in terms of increasing the primary education attendance rate and expanding literacy to approximately three-quarters of the population in the 7-10 age group, by 2011.                                                                                                                                                                                                        {compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}