Today’s Motto: ‘Light your tomorrow with today’

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By Editor's Desk Last updated Jun 20, 2024

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On this day, Jun. 20…….

712 – Arab’s Muhammad of Bin Quasim (Kasim), attacked on Sindh and captured it, defeating and killing Hindu King Dahir ( a Brahmin ruler) at Rawar. His kingdom extended from parts of Afghanistan, Balochistan and Punjab (piccredit-Flickr).

1756 – A group of British soldiers were imprisoned by some rebels in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the “Black Hole of Calcutta.” Most of them died. This included John Zephaniah Holwell, who as a surgeon was one of the first Europeans to study Indian antiquities.

1791 – King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution.

1840 – Samuel F.B. Morse received a patent for telegraphy signals. (The International Morse Code, a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment, is named after him).

1858 – Gwalior fort was captured by British troops and the first Indian Sepoy Mutiny officially came to an end.

1873 – Young Men Christian Association of India was established in Calcutta.

1921 – At the Imperial Conference in London, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies.

1926 – A wireless phone for autos was demonstrated in Berlin, Germany, by Herr Schaetzle.

1967 – Boxer Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services (pic credit-Britannica).

1994 – Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air in Jammu & Kashmir against the killing of Quazi Nissar Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South Kashmir, and a famous religious Kashmiri leader who was gunned down by Pak-aided terrorists.

1996 – Govt. of India declares at the Geneva conference on ‘Global Ban On Nuclear Testing’ that it won’t sign the CTBT. The CTBT essentially bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, be it for military or civilian purposes. The treaty was signed by 71 countries, except India. (The history of the CTBT goes back to March 1st 1954 when America tested a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb in Namu Atoll, an island in the Pacific Ocean. By exceeding the estimated outcome and causing a large fallout beyond that of the restricted testing area, this test increased the fallout of dangerous radioactive materials. Official calculations confirmed that 28 American and 236 residents of the neighbouring Marshall Islands had been contaminated by radioactive emissions).

2016 – China’s super computer tally overtakes the US; Chinese 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is world’s No 1.

2019 – Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, the first Chinese president to visit North Korea in 14 years (pic credit-Reuters).