Today’s Motto: ‘Quite often, ‘What the hell’ turns out to be the right decision to make!’

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

On this day, 03 Jun….

1818 – Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends.

1856 – Cullen Whipple, of US patented a screw-blank feeder mechanism. He invented a machine and various other devices for cutting the threads of screws.

1880 – Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his

newly-invented photophone.

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).

1947 – British Government issued the partition plan, which was accepted by both Muslim League and Congress. The salient features of the partition were, 1) Provices of Bengal and Punjab to be divided., 2) The Indians will form the constitution of India and it will only be applicable in the areas where people accept it., 3) The province of Baluchistan shall adopt proper ways to decide its future., 4) 562 Princely States shall be free to decide their own future., 5) Referendum shall be held in N.W.F.P. and Assam., 6) The Governor General of both countries shall be the executive head of their respective countries., 7) Military assets shall be divided between the two countries and 8) Red Cliff Mission was setup, to demarcate the boundaries of the two countries. India would become free on 15th August 1947.

1965 – The first American astronaut to make a spacewalk was Major Edward White II, when he spent 20 minutes outside the Gemini 4 capsule during Earth orbit at an altitude of 120 miles. (Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov, had made the first ever spacewalk for 10 minutes about three months earlier).

1970 – Har Gobind Khorana and colleagues announced the first synthesis of a gene from chemical components.

1985 – The Government of India implemented a five-day workweek for its civil administrative offices.

1989 – Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing.

1999 – Flight Lieutenant K. Nachiketa is handed over by the International Committee of the Red Cross to the Indian High Commissioner inside the High Commission premises.

2019 – Apple announces it is shutting down iTunes and replacing it with three different apps.

Born…. 1751 – Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor of the Shrapnel shell.

1890 – Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, freedom fighter, follower of Mahatma Gandhi. He went  to  Pakhnunistan   after  Partition.

1912 – Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist.

1924 – Muthuvel Karunanidhi, politician and playwright. Dravid and  Tamil language activist who ruled  as CM for 2 decade

s, co-founded Dravid Munetra Kazagham.

1930 – George John Fernandes, journalist, labour union activist,  social reformer and politician. He joined JP Movement in mid-seventees and was elected to Lok Sabha 9 times. He was Railway Minister Janata Party Govt and  Defence Minister during Kargil War in 1999.

RIP….1989 – Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini]. Became Supreme Leader of Iran after  dethroing Shah Regime in Iran (1979-89).

Titbits…. 1946 – 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris).

You may have known…. Shakuntla Devi was given this title after she demonstrated the calculation of two 13 digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 which were picked at random. She answered correctly within 28 seconds.

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