Motto for Today: ‘Anything that feels impossible, deserves a second look.’

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

On this day, Apr.06……

648 BC – The earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by Greeks.

1648 – Construction of the Red Fort completed at Shahjahanabad as capital of Mughal Empire (now Delhi).
1722 – Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards.

1859 – Realising that milk from the poor, thin cows kept in insanitary conditions and fed on distillery refuse, was a serious public health hazard, milk inspectors were appointed in US. They were authorised to enter the premises of milk handlers and take specimens for analysis. A ten dollar fine was prescribed for sale of ‘swill milk’. Also, milk vendors had to register at his office.

1869 – Isaac Hodgson received a U.S. patent for his “roller-skate,” with a padded shoe attached to the skate frame.

1889 – The Kodak Camera was placed on sale by George Eastman.

1868 – Brigham Young marries his 27th wife. By the time of his death, the most famous polygamist had had married 55 wives, had 59 children by 16 of his wives; 46 of his children reached adulthood.

1912 – The electric starter first appeared in cars.

1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike against the Rowllatt Act.

1925 – 1st film shown on a British Air flight.

1938 – Du Pont researcher Roy J. Plunkett and his technician Jack Rebok accidentally discovered the chemical compound polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), later marketed as Teflon. It was patented later, on 4 Feb 1941. (Teflon is also a nickname given to persons, particularly in politics, to whom criticism does not seem to stick).

1966 – Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India. (He was the first Indian to conquer the English Channel in 1958 and the only man to earn the distinction of swimming the Oceans of the five continents in one calendar year, 1966).

1980 – Bhartiya Janata Party established, separated from collapsed Janata Party govt. and reviving its Jan Sangh party (pre-1977)

1980 – Post It Notes, introduced.

1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.

2000 – The Indian Government permits use of LPG as auto fuel.

Born….

1931 – Suchitra Sen (born Rama Dasgupta), actor.

1956 – Dilip Vengsarkar, cricketer and prolific batsman.

RIP….1664 – Har Krishan Singh, 8th Sikh Guru.

1993 – Divya Bharati, film actress. (Bharti died at the age of 19 after falling off the balcony of her five-story apartment in Versova. Her cause of falling was never officially confirmed).

2011 – Sujatha, actor.

You may have known….

The world’s oldest ‘Yo Mama Joke’ is carved on a 3,500- year-old Babylonian Tablet.

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