Today’s Motto: ‘What you say is not relevant; what people hear is’

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

On this day, 21 Jun….
(International Yoga Day).

1576 – Mughal army attacked  Maharana Pratap of Chittor,  in the battle of Haldighati. Some historians believe he had won the battle of  Haldighati but was  deceived by some  of enemy soldiers in a camp and  had to  escape into jungles.

1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine, recognized as the first such practical machine. Although it did the work of six men, it was very difficult to popularize, and it took until 1841 before McCormick sold his first two machines.

1838 – Discovery of the stereoscopic viewer.

1853 – The first U.S. patent for a commercially successful “Envelop-Folding Machine” was issued to Dr. Russell L. Hawes of Worcester.

1857 – First Victoria Cross awarded. Iti is awarded to British armymen for displaying extraordinary  bravery or  gallantry feats in the War against British enemies. It was introduced by Queen Victoria after Crimean War in 1854.

1893 – The first Ferris wheel premiered at America’s third world’s fair.

1913 – The first successful parachute jump from an airplane by a woman was made by Georgia Broadwick, age 18.

1921 – The UK, the Dominions, and India, become member of   the British Commonwealth of Nations.

1948 – The first stored-programme computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, SSEM, ran its first programme.

1948 – The first successful long-playing microgroove phonograph records (33 1/3 RPM) were introduced to the public.

1948 – C. Rajagopalachari was appointed the first Indian Governor General of Indian union (After January 25, 1950, this post was abolished).

1991 – P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India as head of the Congress minority government.

1998 – India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu.

1999 – Leander Paes was seeded  No. 1,  in Tennis  Double’s ranking. This was his highest double ranking. He played most of the matches with Mahesh Bhupathi and with Billi Jean King in Mixed Doubles.

2004 – Mike Melvill became the first civilian to pilot a craft into space.

2018 – Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is charged with fraud.

Born…. 1958 – Reema Lagoo, theatre and screen actress known for her work in Hindi and Marathi cinema. She became a household name for playing motherly roles in the 1990s and early 2000s.

RIP…. 1940 – Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS). He was a  physician by profession before joinig  Freedom Movememt and  undertook  fight for  public against Fundamentalistic forces in India. .  He founded RSS on Vijyadashmi Day in 1925 to raise Hindu society’s awareness in the light of rising  fundamentalist Muslim  belligerance to get India, a Muslim nation status  under MA Jinnah and the other mainline political Party Congress promoting  a Centrist ideology with tilt towards Muslim thought.  Ultimately India was devided in 1947 into two,  the Islamic Pakistan and the   ‘secular India’.

You may have known….   USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

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