Today’s Motto: ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’
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, Sep. 22……
1789 – Office of Indian Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department.
1910 – England’s 1st aircraft flight.
1913 – The first batch of Indian passive resisters, consisting of 12 men and 4 women (including Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi) are arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
1955 – The first commercial television broadcasting began in Britain.
1965 – Indi
a and Pakistan cease-fire goes into effect, ending Indo-Pakistani War.
1988 – Indian PM announces Government’s decision to drop Defamation Bill.
1999 – India asks Pakistan to prevent the reported attempt by the JKLF to cross the Line of Control (LOC) on October 4.
2021 – WHO warns urgent action needed on air pollution, is on a par with smoking and a poor diet, causing seven million premature deaths a year.
Born….
1956 – Ranjeeta Kaur, veteran Bollywood actor. Acted in blockbuster Alhiyon Ke JHarokhe Se, Laila Majnu, Pati Patni Aur Voh, Tarana, Satte pe Satta, Khwab, Sun Sajna etc. 47 films. She was honored with National Award
for this film Akhiyon ke………
1988 – Sana Saeed, model, event coordinator, actor.
RIP….
1891 – Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous writer, novelist of Bengal.
1977 – Maulana Abdul Ali Maududi, founder of Jamat-E-Islami.
1991 – Durga Khote, pioneering actor. (Earlier, men used to play women in our cinema, because acting was still not a respectable career for women of the soil. Finall
y when we got real women playing heroines in our films, they were not Indians. Anglo-Indian, Jew or Parsi women were cast. At such a juncture, the arrival of Durga Khote was nothing short of a landmark). Acted in films like Musafir, Raja Jani, Usne Kaha Tha, Amar Jyoti, Bhabhi, Mughl-e-Azam, Khushboo, Namak Haram, Bawarchi etc. Awarded Padam Shri, BAFTA, Maharashtra Sate and Dada Sahen Phalke in 1983.
You may have known….
Birth control in ancient India: Ancient Indian women used whatever ingredients that were readily available to them, so they inserted potions made of powdered palm leaf and red chalk into their vaginas. In the 1st century CE, they used cotton dipped in a blend of ghee, honey, and/or seeds of Kimshuka/Palasa tree. They also used rock salt as a spermicide, which sounds excruciatingly uncomfortable, but the women most likely ground the salt into small, less sharp pieces. Copper-T was the other safe birth control method 
about 50 years back. ( to be Contd.)
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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