Today’s Motto: ‘Room at the top is never full’

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

On this day,  Jun.15………

1785 – 2 French balloonists die in world’s 1st fatal aviation accident.

1844 – Charles Goodyear patents the vulcanisation of rubber.

1867 – The first U.S. gallstone operation was performed by Dr. John Stough Bobbs, known as “the father of cholecystotomy”. (The first account of gallstones had been given as early as 1420 by a Florentine pathologist Antonio Benevieni, in a woman who died with abdominal pain. Jean-Louis Petit performed gall bladder surgery in Europe in 1743).

1878 – 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse’s hooves leave the ground.

1880 – The first U.S. patent for a safety razor was issued to brothers Frederick and Otto Kampfe of New York. Their patent described their razor to be “simple and durable in construction, of small first cost, compact in form, and adapted to be used without soiling the fingers of the user.” Two decades later, King Camp Gillette invented the disposable safety razor blade.

1947 – All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi. Also known as the Mountbatten Plan, it envisioned dividing British India on the basis of religious demographics, which went on to create the Sovereign Sates of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India (later the Republic of India). The creation of Pakistan was advocated by the All India Muslim League, which was founded in Dhaka in 1906 by Muslims who were of the opinion that Muslim members of the Indian National Congress did not enjoy the same rights as Hindu members did. (pic credit-Pinterest)

1990 – Punjab Government returned gold and other valuables seized from Golden Temple during the 1984 Blue Star operation to SGPC.

1992 – 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years (pic credit-DepositPhotos).

2015 – Remains of a 2,000 year old women dubbed “the sleeping beauty” are announced discovered in Northern Ethiopia from ancient kingdom of Aksum.

2023 – Water pumped from underground reservoirs has shifted earth’s axis at the North Pole by 4.36 cm a year, with over 2 trillion tons of water extracted 1993-2010.

Born….

1950 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian steel magnate. Started a small steel fabrication unit 1984 and expanded to global  level. Today’s worth US$ 1560 crores.

1953 – Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (2012-) and President of the People’s Republic of China (2013- onwards).

RIP…. 

2006 – Surinder Kaur, most popular Punjabi singer and songwriter.Known as Knoghtingale of Punjab. Awarded Sangeet Natak Akademy award in 1984 and Padam Shri later. Also sang for several Hindi films in 1940s-50s.

You may have known….
In the years during and immediately following World War II, necessitated by limited resources and rationing, it was not uncommon for brides to wear wedding dresses crafted from repurposed parachutes.

Good day. Stay blessed.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}