Today’s Motto: ‘When you feel like quitting, remind yourself why you started’

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

On this day,  June 21………

1768 -The first commencement of a U.S. medical college was held. Of the ten degrees granted, John Archer being alphabetically at the head of the list, became the first doctor in the U.S. to receive such a degree.

1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine,

1838 – Charles Wheatstone discovered the stereoscopic viewer (pic credit-Britannica).

1854 – First Victoria Cross won during the Crimean War. Awardee was 21-year old Lucas of HMS Hecla.

1893 – The Ferris wheel nvented by George Washington Ferris, was first premiered at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, America’s third world’s fair. The purpose was to create an attraction like the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

1913 – The first successful parachute jump from an airplane by a woman was made by Georgia Broadwick, age 18, in Los Angeles, California.

1921 – The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations.

1948 – The first stored-programme computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, SSEM, ran its first programme. Written by Professor Tom Kilburn, it took 52 minutes to run. The tinyexperimental computer had no keyboard or printer, but it successfully tested a memory system developed at Manchester University in England.

1948 – The first successful long-playing microgroove phonograph records (33 1/3 RPM) were introduced to the public at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

1948 – Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy). C. Rajagopalachari was appointed the first Indian Governor General of Indian union (After January 25, 1950, this post was abolished).

1998 – India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu.

1999 – Leander Paes was seeded number one in double’s ranking (pic credit-Wikipedia).

2004 – Mike Melvill became the first civilian to pilot a craft into space.

2015 – 94 people die & 45 are hospitalized after drinking moonshine in Mumbai.

2018- Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is charged with fraud.

2023 – US approves chicken made from animal cells – the country’s first lab-grown meat, aimed at reducing harm to animals and the environment.

Born….

1953 – Benazir Bhutto, 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 1st female leader of a Muslim nation. She was the daughter of Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto of Pakistan at the time of Banglsdesh formation.

1976 – Tushar Kapoor, Bollywood actor, son of legendary Jeetendra. Acted in 3 Idiots, Golemaal and Kya Cool Hain Ham series. Won some awards for comic roles in above films.

RIP….                                                                                                                                                                                                   

1940 – Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, a great visionary,  study Hindutva  and founded Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS) in 1925.

Titbits….

1879 – F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately).

You may have known….

The ‘Purple Heart Medals’ awarded to soldiers in Iraq & Afghanistan were originally manufactured in preparation of a bloody invasion of Japan in 1945.

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