Today’s Motto: ‘We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely realise…….
......the changes it had to go through to achieve that beauty'
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, 30 Jun….
1855 – Santhals of Rajmahal Hills, Santhal-Paragana, Bihar started their agitation against ill treatment by Britishers, revenue officers, police, landlords and moneylenders under the leadership on Sindhu and Kanhu a
t Bhoranadhighi, Bengali.
1859 – Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1908 – A meteorite over 50-m diameter, travelling at over 25 km per second (60,000 mph) penetrated Earth’s atmosphere, heated to about 10,000 ºC and detonated 6 to10 km above the ground over Tangushka in russia. The blast released the energy of 10-50 Megatons of TNT, destroying 2,200 sq km of forest leaving no trace of life.
1914 – Mahatma Gandhi’s 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa.
1948 – The transistor was was first demonstrated.
1965 – Cease-fire was agreed under UN auspices between India and Pakistan, who signed treaty to
stop the war at Rann of Kutch.
1896 – An electric stove was patented by William.S. Hadaway, Jr., in New York City.
1987 – Mizoram became 23rd State of India with Aizwal as the Capital city. Mizoram shares over 722 km of International Border with Bangladesh to the West and Myanmar to the South. It has over 83% Christian population apart from Buddhist, Hindus and others.
1995 – CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan.
1999 – India reiterates that any talks will resume only after Pakistan’s unconditional withdrawal from Kargil. 
Meanwhile Indian Army continues to attack the Tiger Hill area and captures two positions in close proximity to Jubar features.
2000 – The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council adopts a resolution seeking separation from J&K.
2011 – China opens the world’s longest – 164.8 km long bridge for the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway.
Born….
1928 – Kalyanji (Virji Shah), legendary an Indian music director and elder of the most popular musician brothers Kalyanji-Anandji Virji Shah. Composed hundreds ever-green film tunes like Nagin (1954), Samrat Chandragupt, Bairag, Saraswatichandra, Purab Aur Paschim, Upkaar, Kora Kagaz, Don, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Safar, Lawaris, Tridev etc. They won a National Film Award for film Saraswatichandra, a Filmfare, a Grammy award for an Asha Bhonsle song and several other music honours inclding a Padma Shri award in 1992.
1973 – Dodda Ganesh. Former Indian right arm pacer. Very successful in domestic Karanataka cricket, h
e could not establish well in Tests, played just 4 Tests and One ODI. In Ranji Trophy he took 365 wickets in about 10 years career with 7 for 36 being his best (and 12 for 89) in a match against Haryana in 2002-03.
RIP…. 1917 – Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji, great Indian, patriot and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, politician, educationaist and merchant. Called the Grand Old Man of India, he was a critic of British rule in India and also was the first to represent India in British Parliament
2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, a Kisan leader from rural Delhi, a bureaucrat, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi between 1996-98. Was also a Lok Sabha member and Union Cabinet Minister for Labour.
You may have known….
Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island, called Jambudweep. Even today India has 1382 islands under its territory, many of them having clear Bluewater environment.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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