Today’s Motto: ‘People will always have opinions about your decision……

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

On this day, 05 Apr….
*(National Handmade Day, supporting local artisans, who craft unique items with care and love, is a great way to appreciate their creativity).

1896 – 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens.

1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, began the first regular production of balloon tyres for commercial use.

1930 – Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi, a small costal village in Gujarat, after travelling 385 kms with 78 followers to break the recently imposed “Salt Tx act”. This event is known as ‘Dandi March’ and was started from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.

1933 – The first operation to remove a lung was performed at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri by Dr. Evarts Ambrose Graham. This was a triumph for the era that electrified the surgical world. Graham devoted many years to the study of lung cancer and its link to cigarette smoking.

1949 – Indian Boy Scout and Girl Guide were established and renamed as Bharat Scouts and Guides.

1950 – Spurred by recent clashes in East and West Bengal between Muslims and Hindus, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Pakistani couterpart Liakat Ali Khan  reached agreement on a “Bill of Rights for Minorities”. This bill included a provision for “drumhead justice,” or summary justice to persons convicted of violating minority.

1957 – The first Communist ministry in a state was installed in Kerala under the leadership of EMS Namboodripad and was dismissed on  July 31, 1959 by the Union Govt.

1964 – Driverless trains first ran on the London Underground. Now, on the Victoria Line, once the Train Operator has closed the train doors and pressed the start buttons, the trains run automatically to the next station, responding to coded impulses transmitted through the track(pic credit-londonist.com).

1964 – Earth’s 1st contact with the extraterrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek Universe, fiction movie.1979 – First Naval Museum of India established in Bombay.

1986 – Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m).

Born…. 1908 – Babu Jagjivan Ram, valiant freedom fighter. His uninterrupted representation in the Parliament from 1937 to 1986 is a world record. A  Dalit youth  born in  Chandwa  village, Bihar,  who joined Benaras Hindu University  in 1925, on  call  from  its founder Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya and passed Inter Exam from there.  As he found  discrimination from upoper caste students and staff, he left  to join Calcutta University.  He  joined  MK Gandhi’s  anti-untouchability  movement and  led it effectively. He was first elected to Bihar Assembly in 1937 and continued his legislative journey for 30 years.  He was appointed Agriculture Minister in the first Indian Govt. let by  Jawaharlal Nehru.  He was Defence Minister of India during  Bangladesh Liberation war of 1971.  In 1977 he left Congress and formed  Congress For Democracy, was later appointed Dy PM in Janata Party govt. in  1977.  He was formed  another party  Congress (J) and was elected  MP  last time  from 1980 to 1986.  His birthday is commemorated as “Samta Diwas”.

1916 – Gregory Peck, one of the most popular American actor who  acted in  many Oscar winning movies from 1970 to 1999, like To Kill a Mockingbird, Roman Holiday and The Guns of Navarone Spellbound, The Omen, The Boys From Brazil etc. He won 5  Academy awards.

1920 – Rafique Zakaria, Indian author. Indian diplomat who represented India at United Nations  twice and muslim politician who joined the first  Maharashtra  ministry.

1996 – Rashmika Mandanna  is a popular romantic  Indian actress who  is working in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu & Hindi films and is rightly been called, ‘Pan-India Actress’. She enjoys a huge fanbase across the nation and has been bestowed with the title,  National Crush of India. She has acted in Geetha Govindam, Dear Comrade, Mission Majnu, Pushpa, The Rise etc. and has won several awards including a Filmfare South and SIMA award.

RIP…. 1964 – Douglas MacArthur, US general  who partyicipated in both World War and commanded  Pacific theater, in Korea and Phillippines  in WW II. He signed the document of surrender of Japan  on Sept. 02, 1945 and ruled the country for a brief period. He faught US presidential election in 1948  but failed. Later he became Chairman of Remington  Rand before his death in 1964 (pic credit-ar.inspiredpencil.com).

You may have known….

Indians invented trigonometry, algebra, calculus. (A landmark in Indian mathematics was the development of the series expansions for trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, and arc tangent) by mathematicians   like Aryabhatta in 6th century and Bhaskara II , who wrote Sidhant Shiromani ,  in the Kerala school in the 12-15th century CE. Their remarkable work, completed two centuries before the invention of calculus in Europe, provided what is now considered the first example of a power series (apart from geometric series). However, they did not formulate a systematic theory of differentiation and integration, nor is there any direct evidence of their results being transmitted outside Kerala).

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