Today’s Motto: ‘Just as age wrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul’
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, Jun 07………………
1340 – Rotterdam, Netherlands was founded. (Its history goes back to 1270 when a dam was constructed in the Rotte river and people settled around it for safety. In 1340 Rotterdam was granted city rights. It is now Europe’s largest port).
1753 – The British Museum was founded, the world’s oldest public national museum.
1893 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, committed his first act of civil disobedience when the 
then 24-year-old Indian lawyer was forcibly ejected from a train at South Africa’s Pietermaritzburg (Natal) Railway Station. Refusing to move to a third-class carriage while holding a valid ticket for the whites-only first-class compartment, he was pushed off the train in the middle of a winter night, his luggage hastily thrown after him. The incident would change the course of his life – and that of millions of others. Gandhi later recalled: “I was afraid for my very life. I entered the dark waiting-room. There was a white man in the room. I was afraid of him. What was my duty? I asked myself. Should I go back to India, or should I go forward with God as my helper, and face whatever was in store for me? I decided to stay and suffer. My active non-violence began from that date”. (pic credit-Wikimedia Commons)
1912 – US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane.
1958 – A seminal article that launched the widespread use of ultrasound in medical diagnosis was published in The Lancet by Ian Donald, an English physician.
1965 – Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995.
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979 – Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched.
1988 – A U.S. patent was issued to 11-year-old Richard G. Woodbridge for the brush he designed to clean out sawdust accumulating in chain saw cuts.
1993 – Sai Baba escapes attempt on life. Four assailants and two bodyguards were killed.
1997 – Mahesh Bhupathi becomes the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he and Japan’s Rika Hiraki claimed the mixed doubles (pic credit-Tennis-Prose.com).
1998 – India emerges World Bank’s single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars.
2013 – According to a new study, breast milk boosts brain development by 30% compared to babies who are fed by
formula milk (pic credit-iStock.com).
2021 – Multicellular organisms (bdelloid rotifer) frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia to return to life after Russian scientists have them thawed.
2022 – New study reveals Shark Bay sea grass, off Western Australia, may be world’s largest plant, covering 77 square miles of sea floor, having cloned itself for 4,500 years.
Born….
1954 – Tiku Talsania, theatre and Bollywood actor known for comedy roles.
1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis pro. Winner of sevetral internmational Tennis titles.
1975 – Ekta Kapoor, famous television producer, daughter of legendary actor Jeetendra. She is the owner promotor of Balaji Films. Has produced Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and more popular TV serials.
1981 – Amrita Rao, model and actor. Known for her acting in Vivah, Main Hoon Na, Ishq Wishq, Atithi, Jolly LLB, Masti etc. She won 2 Stardust, 2 IIFA and many other awards.
1989 – Sheetal Pandya; she set up a world record at the age of 5 years by covering 1600 km (Delhi to Mumbai) in 50 days on roller skates).
RIP….1606 – Guru Arjundev, fifth Guru of Sikhs.
1631 – Begum Mumtaj Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan, Emperor of India, passed away at Burhanpur a few hours after the birth of a daughter. She was married in 1612 and 
the Taj Mahal was built for her.
You may have known….
French writer Voltaire penned most of his plays from the comfort of his bed.
(Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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