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On this day, August 30….

1659 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s son Dara Shikoh was put to death by his younger brother Aurangzeb.

1831 – Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electrical transformer.

1860 – 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead).

1885 – The first motorcycle was patented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany.

1914 – 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed.

1928 – Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India.

1929 – Colonel E. H. Green took delivery of a new combination gas and electric automobile, built by the General Electric Company.

1963 – The “Hot Line” communications link between the White House, Washington D.C. and the Kremlin, Moscow, went into operation to provide a direct two-way communications channel between the American and Soviet governments in the event of an international crisis. This was one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1983 – Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space, aboard the third flight of the shuttleChallenger on the eighth Space Shuttle Mission.

1983 – Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.

1990 – Parliament unanimously passes the Prasar Bharati Bill. (It is an autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprises Doordarshan Television Network and All India Radio which were earlier media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The Act passed in 1990 was not enacted until 15 September 1997).

1992 – The first Indian-built Advanced Light Helicopter successfully flown in Bangalore.

1993 – 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower.

2000 – A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores were also finalized.

2015 – English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked for MI6 for more than 20 years.

2021 – America ends its longest-ever war of 20 years in Afghanistan as the last military evacuation plane flies out of Kabul.

Born….

1569 – Salim Mirza Jahangir, fourth Mughal Emperor and son of Akbar.

1930 – Warren Buffett, American business magnate (world’s wealthiest person in 2008).

1954 – Ravi Shankar Prasad, politician.

RIP….

1936 – Madam Bhikaji Rustum Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician.

1991 – Dr. P. J. Devras, friend of snakes.

Titbits….

1888 – Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day.

1979 – US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip.

You may have known….

The oceans contain 99 percent of the living species on the planet. (Unconfirmed).

Good morning. Have a nice day.

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