Motto for Today: ‘To get value, first you have to give value.’

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

On this day,  May.18…….

1787 – Glass was engraved for the first time in Toulouse, France.

1912 – The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai. Better known as Dadasaheb Torne, his contribution is remembered with great respect and admiration.
1932 – Hindu-Muslim riots take place in Bombay. 150 are killed or injured. Jinnah – the permanent president of the Muslim League, began to spread the rumors that Muslim minority was in danger under Hindu majority and actively propagated the theory of two separate nations.

1974 – Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon near Pokhran in Rajasthan at 8:05 am, becoming the

sixth nation to do so.

1988 – The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs (pic credit-Dhakad)

2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

2015 – U.S. President Barack Obama bans the use of certain military equipment by police in the wake of recent deaths of unarmed black men by police officers; the move is meant to help communities see police as protectors rather than as an ‘occupied force’.

Born…. 1872 – Bertrand Russell, great philosopher, mathematician, author and Chairman of the Indian League. (pic credit-Jadaliyya)

1933 – H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian farmer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of India.

RIP….

2012 – Jai Gurudev, Indian religious leader, (born 1895).

You may have known….

From 1961 to 1968 France and Brazil fought a cold war over whether lobsters walk or swim.

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