Today’s Motto: ‘You can deal with the 53rd card only if you fully know all the 52’

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

On this day,  Mar. 17……..

1768 – William Cookworthy obtained a British patent for his process to take local china clay and manufacture fine white porcelain. This ultimately led to establishing the porcelain industry in Britain.

1769 – To establish the English Mill’s Cloth companies, East Indian Company imposed various restrictions on weavers of Bengal to destroy textile industry in Bengal, which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and ‘malmal’ industry.

1782 – Salby (Salbai) Treaty was signed between East India Company and Marathas. The Company acquired guarantees that the Marathas would defeat Hyder Ali of Mysore and retake territories in the Carnatic. The Marathas also guaranteed that the French would be prohibited from establishing settlements on their territories. In return, the British agreed to pension off their protégé, Raghunath Rao, and acknowledge Madhavrao II as peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

1845 – Stephen Perry, owner of Messrs Perry and Co. patented the use of India rubber  as springs in bands, belts, etc., and also the manufacture of elastic bands by slicing suitable sizes of vulcanised India rubber tube. (In the early 19th century, sailors brought home items made by Central and South American natives from the sap of rubber trees).

1898 – The first practical submarine was demonstrated by John Holland off Staten Island in New York for 100 minutes. Holland’s sub was not the first underwater boat, but is credited as the first practical one (pic credit-Interesting Engineering)).

1901 – A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.

1955 – Indian Standard’s Institute started working to control the quality of Indian products and the ISI mark was issued to quality products.

1959 – Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India (pic credit-Conde Nest Traveller India).

1966 – US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor.

1992 – South African referendum of white voters on an end to apartheid, over two-thirds vote for an end to the system.

Born….

1962 – Kalpana Chawla, Indo-Amerian space scientist. She went into space thru’ USA shuttle in 1997 but on her second mission her space shuttle crashed in space on Feb. 01, 2003 and all scientists died. Awarded 2 NASA Space awards.

1979 – Sharman Joshi, Bollywood comedy actor. acted in 3 Idiots,Hate Story, London 1920, Dhol. Golmal Unlimied etc. Awarded Filmfare, IIFA and Screen awards (pic from his Facebook a/c)

1990 – Saina Nehwal, Fist Indian badminton star who won a Badminton medal in Olympics for India in 2012. Became No. 1 World ranking three times in 2015.  Was awarded Padam Shri, Padam Bhushan and Arjuna awards     (pic credit-News18).

RIP….

1527 – Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, fought Babur near Kanwa at Agra and lost the battle and died thereafter. He had vowed not to enter Chittogarh without a victory.

1989 – Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, president of Lok Dal (B) and former Union Minister.

You may have known….

King Tut contains the oldest genetic proof of malaria.

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