Today’s Motto: ‘Persistence is synonymous with victory’
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, Apr. 25…………..
1684 – Patent granted for thimble. (The Old English word þȳmel, the ancestor of thimble, is derived from Old English þūma, the ancestor of our word thumb).
1792 – In Paris, the guillotine was used for the first time on a human, highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, after having been tested on corpses and sheep. The severed head fell into a wicker basket; sawdust absorbed the blood. According to the Chronique de Paris, “The people were not satisfied at all. … Everything happened too fast. They dispersed with disappointment,” wanting the gallows back, with more spectacle.
1809 – Amritsar Agreement between Mahara Ranjit Singh and British East India Company.
1859 – Work began on the 100-mile Suez Canal in Egypt, to link the Mediterranean and the Red Seas. It provided a direct transportation route for trade between Europe and Asia. (The first blow of the pickax was given by its French engineer, Ferdinand vicomte de Lesseps at Port Said. He initiated and supervised the project to link the Mediterranean and the Red Seas. The 100-mile long canal provides a direct transportation route for trade between Europe and Asia).
1915 – The German High Command admitted that chlorine gas bombs and shells had been used in the attack on the French front at Ypres three days earlier. The effect of the gas attack was to open a four-mile gap in the Allied line. The Canadian troops on one flank held against German attacks, and British and Indian forces filled the breach. Fortunately for the Allies, the Germans had no reserve forces available to push into the breach. No tactical advantage was won by this first use of the new weapon. The Germans promised, however, that “more effective substances can be expected.” Meanwhile, they were condemned for the use of this novel weapon.
1938 – 1st use of seeing eye dog (a dog that leads blind people).
1959 – The earliest known case of AIDS was admitted; a 25-year-old patient, David Carr of UK. , an apprentice printer, entered the Royal Manchester Infirmary in England. He died 4 1/2 months later.
1961 – The integrated circuit was patented by Robert Noyce. He also co-founded Intel Corpn. in 1968. He was the co-founder of Microchip, Fairchild Semiconductors and had over a dozen Patents in computer gadgets and ideas. The co-inventor of Microchip Jack Kilby was awarded Nobel in 2000 while Noyce was dead. Though he was awarded ‘Nobel Prize ‘for Engineering by the American Assocviation of Engineering Schools.
1982 – India’s first telecast colour broadcasting started on Dordarshan.
1993 – Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued.
1998 – India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka.
2018 – Indian religious leader Asaram Bapu is sentenced to life for raping a 16-year old girl.
2019 – Microsoft becomes the third US firm to be listed with a market worth of 1 trillion, after Apple and Amazon.
2023 – Japanese M1 start up spacecraft crashes on the moon, in its attempt to become t
he first privately-owned spacecraft to land on the Moon (pic credit-news.abs-cbn.com).
Born….1989 – Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama, born in Lhari County, Tibet.
RIP….1968 Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, popular classic singer.
2005 – Swami Ranganathananda, Belur math monk. He was a great Vedanta scholar, the 13th President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
You may have known….
1. In the 1880s families could buy foldaway bathtubs, and tubs that doubled as sofas.
2. Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the earth and is one of its kind in India.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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