Today’s Motto: ‘When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty’

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

On this day, 30 Apr….
(International Jazz Day: Celebrated worldwide to promote jazz music and its cultural significance).

1796 – The first U.S. patent for a pill of any kind was issued to Samuel Lee.

1808 – 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri (pic credit-medium.com).

1878 – Louis Pasteur lectured at th e French Academy of Science in support of his germ theory of disease, in which he held that many diseases were caused by tiny organisms. Since he still met with opposition from some scientists, he called their contrary opinions “fatal to medical progress.” He won several awards for medical research  (pic credit-Adobe Stock)

1945 – German dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin (pic credit-worldwartwo.filmispecter.com).

1955 – Imperial Bank of India nationalised  and renamed  as State Bank  of India.

1991 – BJP election manifesto promises Presidential form of government.

2012 – Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River, India, killing 103 people. The m9ghty river of North East India flows from Tibet in China and ends its 2,900 km long journey in Bay of Bangal, spreading across  India and Bangladesh.

2013 – Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna is declared “The First Superstar of Indian cinema” at the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards. Khanna reiogned  the  Bollywood  film  industry for  over 45 years and acted as hero in over 100  films and won  Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award,  7 AICA, BFJA and  many more.

2014 – The World Bank reports that India is now the third-largest economy behind the U.S. and China on the basis of purchasing power parity; India replaces Japan, though Japan remains in third place when GDPs are compared on an exchange-rated basis.

2018 – World’s oldest known spider, a female trapdoor, dies after being killed by a wasp sting in Western Australia, aged 43.

2022 – Jacky Hunt-Broersma sets world record for running 104 consecutive marathons in 104 days, after surviving cancer and with a prosthetic leg.

Born…. 1870 – Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke . Born in Trimbak town, near Nashik, he is remembered as the ‘Father of Indian Cinema’. He produced India’s first feature Film, ‘Raja Harishchandra’ and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter. His films Kalia Mardan, Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra, Satyavan Savitri, Lanka Dahan  were some of the most popular films in that era. An award in his memory was established by Govt. of India in 1969 to award and encourage excellent performers in India cinema (pic credit-anandtoday.com). 

1896 – Anandamayi Ma, an Indian saint, was described by Sivananda Saraswati (of the Divine Life Society as “the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced. Born in Kheora, Brahmanbaria Distt.  (now in Bangladesh),  she practiced Vaishnav Bhakti Yoga and  taught how to live a God-centered life in the world and provided the living inspiration to enable thousands to aspire to this noblest ideal. She also advocated spiritual equality for women; for example, she opened up to women the sacred thread ritual, which had been performed by men only for centuries (pic credit-crossandlotus.com).

1944 – Sonal Mansingh, Indian classical dancer and Guru Bharatanatyam and Odissi dancing style; who is also proficient in other Indian classical dancing styles (pic credit-Sohamasmi Centre for Performing Arts).

1987 – Rohit Sharma, international Right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm off-break bowler who plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket and captained Mumbai Indians in IPL for a couple of years and Indian national cricket team in all formats of the game. Called Hitman popularly for his big hitting style.

RIP…. 1030 – Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, Mongolian raider and lutera of Central Asia and India (17 times).

1999 – Jessica Lal, model and TV personality, was murdered in a crowded south Delhi resta

urant, allegedly by Manu Sharma. the son of a Haryana Congress leadewr. (pic credit -Money Control) Filename not specified.

2012 – Achala Sachdev, veteran Bollywood actor, who acted in films from Anhonee (1952), Bandhan, Nazrana (1962), Vaqt (1965) upto Kal Ho Na Ho (2003). Won a Filmfare award in 1978. (pic credit-IMDb).

Titbits…., 1960 – The oldest U.S. bat was identified as 24 years old, having been banded on 22 Jun 1937 in Massachusetts. The female little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), the most abundant bat in the U.S., was found in a cave on MounError! Filename not specified.t Aeolis, Vermont.
You may have known…. As on 1st April ’2025 total updated geological coal and lignite resources of the country stand at 400.715 billion tonnes and 47.37 billion tonnes respectively.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}