Motto for Today: ‘A bucket that is leaking from inside can never be filled.’

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

On this day,  May 01…….

1486 – Christopher Columbus proposes his plan to search for a western route to India in an audience with Spanish monarch, Isabella I. Full support is granted 3 years later, in 1489,

1784 – Britain & Tippu Sultan of Mysore sign a peace treaty.

1851 – The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opened in Hyde Park, London. This was the first international exhibition to be held in any country.

1884 – Construction began in Chicago, Illinois, on the first skyscraper, the ten-story steel-skeleton Home Insurance Company of New York (The use of a steel skeleton made the building of skyscrapers possible, for the frame carries the entire weight of the building, instead of the walls themselves supporting the entire weight).

1886 – May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, rest for 8 Hours.

1894 – Black American inventor, William B. Purvis patented an “Electric Railway”.

1899 – Bayer introduced aspirin in powder form, in Germany.

1924 – The first iodised table salt in the U.S. went on sale. The table salt contained 0.01% sodium iodide as a dietary supplement since an adequate intake of iodine reduces the incidence of goitre.

1926 – Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.

1948 – Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.

1960 – Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujarat States.

1960 – A US U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.

1966 – Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.

1977 – Janata Party was established.

1994 – Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established.

1995 – SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.

1998 – India resumes underground nuclear tests after more than a 20-year gap.
(There were three underground tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device).

2015 – Elon Musk, head of Tesla Motors, announces the formation of Tesla Energy, a producer of large batteries for storage of generated renewable energy in homes and businesses.

2015 – Astha Arora was named India’s billionth baby.

2020 – Tweets by Elon Musk saying Tesla’s share price is too high wipe $14 billion off the carmaker’s value.

2022 – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood” in interview on Italian TV, prompting outrage from Israel.

Born….

1621 – Guru Teg Bahadur, the 9th Guru of Sikhs who was killed by Aurangzeb in Chandi Chowk, Delhi

1913 – Balraj Sahni, actor.

1919 – Manna Dey, singer.

1973 – Diana Hayden, actor.

1988 – Anushka Sharma, actress (image credit-IMDb)

RIP….

2008 – Nirmala Deshpande, a noted Indian social activist who had embraced Gandhian philosophy. She devoted her adult life to the promotion of communal harmony and service to women, tribal people, and the dispossessed in India.

You may have known….

In January 2019 Japanese billionaire Yukasu Maezawa became the most retweeted person of all time – more than 54 million retweets – after promising a 100 million cash incentive to his followers.

 

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