Today’s Motto: ‘Real happiness does not come from without, it comes from within’

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

On this day, 06 Apr….
(International Day of Sport for Development and Peace).

648 BC – The earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by Greeks was observed on this day.

1859 – Realising that milk from the poor, thin cows kept in insanitary conditionsand fed on distillery refuse, was a serious public health hazard, milk inspectors were appointed in US. They were authorised to enter the premises of milk handlers and take specimens for analysis. A ten dollar fine was prescribed for sale of ‘swill milk’. Also, milk vendors had to register at his office (A lactometer/hydrometer,  is used for testing purity of milk).

1868 – Brigham Young, American religious leader(2nd   president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877),  and politician, marries his 27th wife. By the time of his death, the most famous polygamist had married 55 wives, had 59 children by 16 of his wives; 46 of his children reached adulthood. However, it is suspected that not all of the 55 marriages were conjugal. (Ann Eliza Young was one of his fifty-five wives and later a critic of polygamy. She spoke out against the suppression of women and was an advocate for women’s rights during the 19th century).

1869 – Isaac Hodgson received a U.S. patent for his “roller-skate,” with a padded shoe attached to the skate frame.

1889 – The Kodak Camera was placed on sale by George Eastman.

1912 – The electric starter first appeared in cars.

1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike against the Rollatt Act.

1925 – 1st film shown on an British Air flight.

1938 – Du Pont researcher Roy J. Plunkett and his technician Jack Rebok accidentally discovered the chemical compound polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), later marketed as Teflon. It was patented later, on 4 Feb 1941. (Teflon is also a nickname given to persons, particularly in politics, to whom criticism does not seem to stick).

1966 – Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India. (He was the first Indian to conquer the English Channel in 1958 and the only man to earn the distinction of swimming the Oceans of the five continents in one calendar year, 1966).

1980 – Post It Notes, introduced.

1993 – In Russia, a huge radioactive cloud was released from an explosion of a tank of radioactive waste at the secret military facility at Tomsk 7. Located in the Russian wilderness, 1700 miles east of Moscow, it was the worse nuclear accident, thought not the only one, since the incident at Chernobyl on 26 Apr 1986. A week later, delegates at a meeting in Tokyo from the world’s richest nations, agreed to give urgent help to Russia for problems with nuclear waste, obsolete nuclear missile warheads, and aging nuclear reactors.

1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.

2000 – The Government permits use of LPG as auto fuel.

2016 – First baby born with DNA from three parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico (pic credit-www.magster.com).

Born…. 1956 – Dilip (Balwant)  Vengsarkar, opening  cricketer and prolofic batsman.  He played 116 Test, 129 ODIs scoring 6,868 runs and 19 centuries. He also captained Indian team and was chief selector for some period. Was awarded with Lifetime Acheivement award in 2024 by Mumbai Cricket Association.

RIP…. 1664 – Guru Harkhishan Singh,  8th Sikh Guru. He was also called the Bal Guru, because he succeded his father at a tender age Five only,  on his martyrdom.  He contracted smallpox  while  attending to his ailing followers in Delhi. He was just short of  8 years. He indicated to his followers  that his granduncle Guru Teg Bahadur should  be the next Guru of Sikhs.

1993 – Divya Bharati, film actress. (Bharti died at the age of 19 after falling off the balcony of her five-story apartment in Versova. Her cause of falling was never officially confirmed).

You may have known….

Indians invented cataract surgery. The “couching” technique, where the lens is pushed away and not removed, is believed to have originated in ancient India, with the earliest known documentation found in the Sushruta Samhita around 600 BCE.

 

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