Today’s Motto: ‘If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down’

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

On this day,  Sept. 11………

1841 – The first U.S. patent for collapsible metal tubes was issued to an artist, John Rand. His purpose was as a “mode of preserving paints, and other fluids, by confining them in close metallic vessels so constructed as to collapse with slight pressure, and thus force out the paint or fluid through proper openings for that purpose.” The idea was later reinvented in 1892 for the commercial packaging of toothhpaste.

1875 – 1st newspaper cartoon strip  (credit-LevelUp Cartooning) .

1906 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term ” Satyagraha” to characterise the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

1928 – 1st TV drama; Queen’s Messenger was telecast. Three still cameras were used to film the programme. Two cameras shot the faces of the actors. The third was used to show props and other images.

1946 – The first mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation took place between Houston, Texas and St. Louis, Missouri.

1948 – Indian Government troops enter the Hyderabad State.  At the time of Independence in 1947, the princely states of India, who in principle had self-government within their own territories, were subject to subsidiary alliances with the British, giving them control of their external relations. In the Indian Independence Act 1947 the British abandoned all such alliances, leaving the states with the choice of opting for full independence. However, by 1948 almost all had acceded to either India or Pakistan. One major exception was that of the wealthiest and most powerful principality, Hyderabad, where the Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII, chose independence and hoped to maintain this with an irregular army recruited from the Muslim aristocracy, known as the Razakars. The Nizam was also beset by the Telangana uprising, which he was unable to subjugate. Operation Polo, the code name of the Hyderabad ‘Police Action’ under  orders of  Dy. PM and Home Minister Sardar Patel,  was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the State and overthrew its Nizam, annexing the state into the Indian Union.  Charminar was built by Sultan Mohammed Quli Qutb Shah in 1591 in honor of his wife Bhagmati.

1951 – Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to Sultan Mohammed Quli Qutb Shah in 1591 France. It took 16 hours & 19 minutes.

1956 – The PM announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash in 1945.

1958 – India and Pakistan announced that most border disputes between the two countries had been settled.

1967 – China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border.

2001 – Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into  New York’s World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and death of 2,977 people.

Born….

1895 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher,  saint and follower of Gandhiji. He led the Bhoodan Aandolan, coercing big land owners to donate their surplus  lands to poor Indians.

1911 – Lala Amarnath, right-hand Indian all-rounder cricketer of 1930s and 50s; He scored first Test century in 1933 at Lords against England, also got 45 wickets in 35 Tests at an average of 32,91.  Was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991. 

RIP….

1948 – Mohammad Ali Jinnah, called father of Pakistan.

1971 – Nikita  S Khrushchev, dies of a heart attack. He was First secretary and premier of Soviet Union from 1953-64 and powerful leader after Stalin.  He appoibnted Bulganin as his PM. He was a very powerful leader of the Bi-polar world upto his death in 1971.

1987 – Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature.

You may have known….

Bhils, Rajasthan: The Bhil tribe is one of the biggest tribes of India and comprises almost 39 percent of the whole Rajasthani population. Bhils are pretty independent and follow their own set of rules and customs. There is lot of freedom given to Bhil women and women are treated as equals by the Bhil society. Tribal women smoke hookah and consume liquor openly with men and such activities are not looked down upon. Furthermore, the Bhil community practices polygamy where a woman is allowed to remarry and have multiple partners after her  first marriage.

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