Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
On this day, 06 Sep ....
1774 - British Government supported Peshwa Raghunath Rao to re-conquer Pune.
1819 - A U.S. patent for a profile lathe was issued to Thomas Blanchard of Middlebury, Connecticut. It was capable of manufacturing irregular forms, such as gun stocks.
1879 - Telephone Company Ltd opened the first public British telephone exchange in Lombard Street, London using Edison's system. The exchange served just eight subscribers with a two-panel Williams switchboard. Between the connected offices, private conversations could be made in either a loud or a low tone. (The service was in effect an exclusive club, to which members paid a subscription - hence the origin of the term “subscriber).”
1886 - Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO).(It is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat).
1892 - The first gasoline tractor to be sold in the U.S. was shipped by its builder, John Froelich of Froelich, Iowa to Langford, South Dakota, which lacked easy access to a wood or coal supply for steam-powered units. There, it spent a season threshing from 24 Sep to 16 Nov of the same year. His 16-horsepower machine was geared for both forward and reverse motion.
1916 - 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee, US.
1920 - 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight (Boxing).
1941 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star.
1947 - The aircraft-carrier Midway became the first U.S. vessel from which a long-range rocket was launched. Accompanied by scientific observers, a captured German V-2 rocket was fired from the flight deck from a position at sea several hundred miles of the east coast of the U.S. the rocket travelled about 6 miles. A ship launch test was only conducted once.
1965 - India invades West Pakistan - official beginning of the Indo-Pakistani War. (It was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against Indian rule. India retaliated by launching a full-scale military attack on West Pakistan. The seventeen-day war witnessed the largest engagement of armored vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II).
1972 - Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre.
1997 - Princess Diana's funeral.( Diana, Princess of Wales was laid to rest on her family estate at Althorp, following a royal ceremonial funeral at Westminster Abbey that was watched or listened to by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide).
1999 - Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP.
Born....
1889 - Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist and leader.
1929 - Yash Johar, film producer.
1949 - Rakesh Roshan, film actor and producer.
1951 - Mammootti. actor.
RIP....
1970 - Arthur William Sidney Herrington, American engineer and manufacturer who developed a series of military vehicles, the best known of which was the World War II jeep.
1972 - Allauddin Khan, famous Sarod player.
You may have known....
The first AIDS case was detected in India in 1986. In 2010, 1.4 to 1.6 million Indians were living with HIV virus. The figures have been declining. The states with high HIV prevalence rates include Manipur (1.40%), Andhra Pradesh (0.90%), Mizoram (0.81%), Nagaland (0.78%), Karnataka (0.63%) and Maharashtra (0.55%).
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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