Today’s Motto: ‘Don’t let your baggage decide your travels’

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

On this day, 17 Mar….

1768 – William Cookworthy obtained a British patent for his process to take local china clay and manufacture fine white porcelain. He could thus produce hard paste porcelain to compete in quality as finished goods imported from China.

1769 – East Indian Company imposed various restrictions on weavers of Bengal to destroy the Muslim and textile industry in Bengal , which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and ‘malmal’ industry.

1782 – Salby (Salbai) Treaty was signed between East India Company and Marathas. The Company acquired guarantees that the Marathas would defeat Hyder Ali of Mysore and retake territories in the Carnatic (Karnataka).  The Marathas also guaranteed that the French would be prohibited from establishing settlements on their territories. In return, the British agreed to pension off their protégé, Raghunath Rao, and acknowledge Madhavrao II as peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

1898 – The first practical submarine was demonstrated by John Holland off Staten Island in New York for 100 minutes. Holland’s sub was not the first underwater boat, but is credited as the first practical one.

1901 – An exhibition  of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation (pic credit-etsy.com).

1955 – Indian Standard’s Institute started working to control the quality of Indian products and the ISI mark was issued to quality products.

1993 – 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta.

RIP….  1527 – Rana Sangram Singh, Khittogarh without a victory.

1989 – Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna a senior Congress leader who , left Congress in 1975    and  became president of Lok Dal (B), was former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh  and Union Minister.

You may have known….

Though the company Havell’s was bought for just 10 lakh Rupees a longtime ago and is now a multi-billion electrical goods company, it’s an Indian company and is still named after its original owner, Haveli Ram Gupta.                                                                                                                                            {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}