Today’s Motto: ‘See life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity’

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

On this day, 22 Jun….

1555 – Humayun crossed the Indus, captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne.

1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope.

1675 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory was created by Royal Warrant in England by Charles II. Apart from other contributions, it established the longitude of Greenwich as a baseline for time calculations.

1815 – 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo).

1832 – A pin manufacturing machine was patented by John Ireland Howe. He also invented a machine to stick the pins in paper packets.

1841 – The first U.S. patent for a typesetting machine was issued to Frenchman Adrien Delcambre and Englishman James Hadden Young.

1897 – The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna and  Vasudev  shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom struggle. They killed 2 British officers WC Rand and  Lt. Ayrest  in Pune.  They are believed to have ignited  revolution against the British Govt. in the late 19th Century (pic credit-newsbharati.com). 

1940 – Netaji Subhashchandra Bose established the ‘Forward Block’ after differences with Congress leaders.

1944 – British 14th Army frees Imphal, Assam (now Manipur).

1946 – Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop ‘hooliganism’ by Whites.

1962 – 1st test flight of a Hovercraft.

1973 – The first Skylab crew of astronauts splashed down safely after a then record 28 days in space.

1975 – National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced.

1990 – Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organisation has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach.

2004 – A report, based on a 50-year study of a group of almost 35,000 British doctors who smoked, found that almost half of persistent cigarette smokers were killed by their habit, and a quarter died before age 70. Further, those who quit by age 30 had the same life expectancy as a nonsmoker. Even quitting at age 50 saved six more years of life over those who continued smoking. At age 80, 65% of non-smokers were still alive, but only 32% of smokers.

Born….1932 – Amrish Puri, film actor. Veteran Bollywood and Punjabi actor, who mostly played as  forceful villainous roles.  He started with small roles in Gandhi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and ewent on  be a strong charatcer actor in films like   Mr. India, Dil Wale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Hulchul, Aitraz, Tarze, Lakshaya, Mujh Se Shaadi Karogi, etc. He also acted in Tamil, Malyalam, etc. He won 7 Filmfare and 20 nominatiopns.

RIP….

1994 – L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry.  1994 – A Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, he had the unique distinction of acting in the first talkies of three different languages of Indian cinema; Alam Ara (Hindi), Bhakta Prahlada (Telugu) and Kalidas(Tamil). He also directed/produced films like Jeene Ki Rah, Chhoti Behn, Jai Vijai, Bidai, Ek Duuje Ke Liye etc. He also won 2 National Film awards starting 1962 and several Filmfare awards. He was awarded Raghupati Venkaiah award for contributing to Telugu cinema and literatrure. (video credit-Prasad Productions)

You may have known….

The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra. Koyna Dam  in  Aurangabad distt. is built on Godavari in arounf 1914-18 is the largest dams of the state too. 

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