Today’s Motto: ‘You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets’
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, 27 Apr….
1526 – Mughal king Babur beats Ibrahim Lodhi, Sultan of Delhi in the battle of Panipat. Babur was the Persian raider, a descendent of Timur Lang and Changez Khan. He captured the throne of Kabul in 1504, then attacked India and killed Lodhi in the battle of Panipat. He established the Mughal rule that lasted until 1857 when British defeated Bahadur Shah Zafar and other freedom fighters of India’s first War of Independence.
1667 – Blind and impoverished poet, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10. Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by legendary English poet. The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The first version, published in 1667, consists of 10 volumes of books with over ten thousand lines of verse.
1705 – Aurangzeb captured Fort of Vagingera.
1719 – Mughal Emperor Farukh Siyar was put to death.
1887 – George Thomas Morton performed the first U.S. operation to remove an appendix, an appendectomy, saving the life of a 26-year-old man with appendicitis (Pic credit-TIFL Library).
1906 – China, as suzerain of Tibet, agreed to the terms of a treaty proposed by Britain. According to the treaty, foreign powers may not send representatives to Tibet, receive transportation or mining concessions, or occupy, buy or lease any territory in Tibet without British permission. The British wanted to prevent the Russians from establishing a protectorate over Tibet, which lies on India’s northern border. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, failed in attempts to communicate with Tibet’s r
uler, the Dalai Lama, leading to China taking over Tibet ultimately.
1911 – Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi.
1918 – MK Gandhi attended Viceroy’s War Conference at Delhi and addressed it in Hindustani; subsequently he toured Kaira District of Gujarat, to raise recruits for British army for World War-I.
1960 – Presidential orders were issued on the report of the Committee of Parliament on official Languages which includes issues relating to preparation of terminology (Hindi glossaries, Hindia translation of codes and procedural literature, imparting training in Hindi to employees propagation of Hindi, language of bills, language to be used in the Supreme Court and High Court etc).
1986 – Congress (I) expels former Union Minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee from the party for 6 years. Mukherjee had joined Congress in 1972 by metrging his Bangla Congress, became a confident of PM Indira Gandhi. He was Momber of Rajya Sabha 5 times. When dropped by Congress from ministyery he left and started his own Rashtriya Samajwadi Party, but went back to INC in 1989. He subsequently became Defence, External Affairs and Finance Minister between 2004-2012, whereafter he won the Presidential election against NDA’s PA Sangama. He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 2019 by the PM Modi govt..
1997 – CBI decides to prosecute Bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav, former CM Dr. Jagannath Mishra, Union Minister Chandra Deo Prasad Verma and 53 others in the Rs. 950 crore fodder scam case (pic credit-thehindubusinessline.com).
2005 – Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2012 – The wives and children of former Osama bin Laden are deporte
d from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia.
2018 – Historic Korean summit: the North’s Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons
Born…. .1791 – Samuel Finley Breese Morse. He was an American artist and inventor who is famous for developing the Morse Code (1838) and independently perfecting an electric telegraph.
1857 – Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of India’s first Cinema Hall – ‘Elphinstone Palace’ at Calcutta, Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company. He was the producer of Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra (1917), Bilwamangal, Vasantprabha and Nala Damyanti etc.
1912 – Zohra Segal, an iconic Indian dancer, and choreograp
her. character actor who acted in Neecha Nagar, Chini Kum, Ham Dil De Chuke Sanam, Chalo Ishq Ladayen etc. Was awarded Padam Shri, Kalidas Samman, Sangeet Natak Academy and its Lifetime Fellowship. Died on July 10, 2014 at 102 years age. (pic credit-Vogue India)
RIP…. 2009 – Feroz Khan, was an actor, film editor, producer, and director in the Hindi film industry. He had given many Hit films in his career some of them, are Aurat (1967), Safar 
(1970), Mela (1971), Upaasna (1971), Apradh (1972), Khotte Sikkay (1974), Kala Sona 
(1975), and Dharmatma (1975).
2017 – Vinod Khanna, popular Bollywood actor, producer, and politician. In his initial career of filmmaking in 1968, Khanna acted in supporting and antagonistic roles; as an angry young man in the movie Mere Apne. In 1982, Khanna temporarily quit the film industry to follow his spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh. His popular films are Hath Ki DSafai, Qurbani, Hera Pheri, Shaque, Muqqaddar Ka Sikandar, Chandni, Do Dost, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Parvarish, amar Akbar anthony etc. He won 2 Filmfare awards, a Lifetime Achievement, Stardust award etc. and was honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke in 2017 (posthumpously). He was elected to Lok Sabha 3 times from Ferozepur on BJP ticket and serrved Union Minister 3 terms.
You may have known…. The number of cellphone subscribers in India increased by 6,240% between 2001-2011. 
(Today, approximately 85.5 percent of households possess at least one smartphone with over 68 Crore users). {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
