On this day - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

If everything is important, then nothing is.

On this day, 25 Jun....

1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop.

1658 - 6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.

1667 - 1st blood transfusion performed by French Doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys.

1783 - Antonie Lavoisier announced to the French Academy of Sciences that water was the product formed by the combination of hydrogen and oxygen. ( However, this discovery had been made earlier by the English chemist Henry Cavendish).

1867 - Barbed wire was patented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio (U.S. No. 66,182). His simple idea that was an artificial "thorn hedge" consisting of wire with short metal spikes twisted on by hand at regular intervals. For prairie farmers and cattlemen natural fencing materials were scarce, so the invention met the need to keep their cattle safely away from crops.

1924 - Tuberculosis vaccine was developed by Prof Albert Calmette and Alphonse Guerin.

1932 - Commencement of India's 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's.

1951 - Advent of colour TV.  At 4:35 pm, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) televised the one-hour premiere of commercial colour television with a programme named Premiere.

1983 - India won 'Prudential World Cup' Cricket Championship held in England after defeating West Indies.

Born....

1900 - Louis Mountbatten, last British Viceroy and first Governor General of independent India.

1903 - George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair], British writer;   born in Motihari, Bihar. 

1931 - Vishwanath Pratapsing, former Prime Minister of India.

1974 - Karisma Kapoor, film actress.

RIP....

2009 - Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music.

You may have known....

When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan