On this day - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

On this day, 22 Jun....

1555 - Humayun crossed the Indus and captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne.

1633 - Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope. He was forced  to “abjure, curse, and detest” his Copernican heliocentric views. “I, Galileo...do swear that I have always believed, do now believe and, with God's aid shall believe hereafter, all that which is taught and preached by the ... church. I must wholly forsake the false opinion that the sun is the centre of the world and moves not, and that the earth is not the centre of the world and moves....” He was then condemned to the “formal prison of the Holy Office” for an undetermined amount of time which would be served at the pleasure of his judges, and required to repeat the seven penitential psalms once a week for three years. The next day the Pope specified the prison sentence should be house arrest. (Galileo Galilei was  an Italian astronomer, physicist,engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century).

1675 -  The Royal Greenwich Observatory was created by Royal Warrant in England by Charles II. Apart from other contributions, it established the longitude of Greenwich as a baseline for time calculations.

1815 - 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo).

1832 - A pin manufacturing machine was patented by John Ireland Howe.  He  also invented a machine to stick the pins in paper packets.

1841 -  The first U.S. patent for a typesetting machine was issued to Frenchman Adrien Delcambre and Englishman James Hadden Young.

1897 - The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom struggle.

1940 - Netaji Subhashchandra Bose established the 'Forward Block' after differences with Congress leaders.

1944 - British 14th Army frees Imphal, Assam (now Manipur).

1946 - Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop 'hooliganism' by Whites.

1962 - 1st test flight of a Hovercraft.

1973 - The first Skylab crew of astronauts splashed down safely after a then record 28 days in space.

1975 - National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced.

1990 - Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organisation has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach.

1996 - Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test debut.

2004 - A  report, based on a 50-year study of a group of almost 35,000 British doctors who smoked, found that almost half of persistent cigarette smokers were killed by their habit, and a quarter died before age 70. Further, those who quit by age 30 had the same life expectancy as a nonsmoker. Even quitting at age 50 saved six more years of life over those who continued smoking. At age 80, 65% of non-smokers were still alive, but only 32% of smokers. 

Born....

1932 - Amrish Puri, film actor.

RIP.... 

1994 - L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry.

Titbits....

1981 - Tennis player John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon.

You may have known....

The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan