Today’s Motto: ‘You didn’t come this far, to only go this far’

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

On this day,  Jun.26………..

1498 – The bristle toothbrush was invented in China. Coarse hairs taken from the back of a hog’s neck were used for the bristles, attached at right angles to a bone or bamboo handle, similar to the modern type.

1797 – Charles Newbold was issued the first US patent for a cast-iron plow. (When agriculture was first developed, simple hand-held digging sticks and hoes were used).

1888 – The first American patent for a gasoline-driven automobile was issued to Karl Benz of Mannheim, Baden, Germany.

1914 – The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it recognizes “the validity of Indian customary marriages”.

1954 – Nehru, Chou En-lai pledged a good-neighbour policy at New Delhi.

1974 – At 8:01 a.m., a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum with a bar code printed on it passed over a scanner at the Marsh Supermarket, Troy, Ohio, and became the first product ever logged under the new Universal Product Code (UPC) computerised recognition system. Invented by IBM, and approved for use in 1973, the UPC is a 12-number bar code representing the manufacturer’s identity and an assigned product number. Within nanoseconds, this information is read with a laser beam moving at around 10,000 inches per second and transfers it to the store’s database computer for price lookup and inventory management.

1975 – Citing what she called a “deep and widespread conspiracy” against her government, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency, which lasted till 1977.

1992 – India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh.

1995 – Madhya Pradesh declared “Tiger State” as it homes one-sixth of the world’s tiger population.

1997 – India declares its chemical weapon stockpiles and storage facilities as part of its obligations as signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

1999 – Kargil War. Pakistan gave tacit admission that its fighters were involved in the Kashmir region against Indian forces.

2012 – Cabinet minister Virbhadra Singh, resigned one day after a court in Himachal Pradesh charged him and his wife with conspiracy and corruption in a 23-year-old case related to one of his five terms as chief minister.

2018 – India is named the most dangerous country to be a woman because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

2023 – Earliest possible evidence of cannibalism found in 1.45-million-year-old fossilized hominin leg bone, with cut marks made by stone tools from the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

Born….

1888 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, a great freedom fighter and social reformer. Promoted many core sector industry units like Cement, Steel, Aluminium, Textiles, Carbon, Telecom and media house The Hindustan Times group.

1985 – Arjun Kapoor, Bollywood actor, son of famous director/producer Boney Kapoor. Acted in Half Girlfriend, 2 States, Ek Villain Returns, Kia & Ka etc. (pic credit-MoneyControl).

RIP….

2004 – Yash Johar, film director/producer who madeDostana, Kal Ho Na Ho, Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham etc. He won two National Fim Awards and 7 Filmfare awards. (also father of Karan Johar)

2005 – Eknath Solkar, very proloific alround cricketer. He took 53 catches in 27 matches as slip fielder.

Titbits….

1963 – US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” (intended to mean “I am a Berliner”, but may actually mean “I am a doughnut”) speech in West Berlin.

You may have known….

Approximately one out of every 200 people has an extra rib.

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