On This Day - Raj Kadyan

 A leader does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

 

On this day, 06 May....

1529 - Babur defeated the Afghan Chiefs in the Battle of Ghagra.

1840 - The adhesive postage stamp was first sold in Great Britain.

  1857 - The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose Sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.

1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

1891 - U.S. President Benjamin Harrison had the first electric lights installed in the White House. Irwin H. “Ike”, the electrician who came to do the work, was retained as the White House electrician to operate the lights because the President's family was afraid of getting shocked.    

1896 - The Aerodrome No. 5  made the first successful flight of an unpiloted, engine-driven, heavier-than-air craft of substantial size.  Its first flight travelled 3,300-ft.

1916 - The first U.S. radio telephone ship-to-shore conversation was made.   

1948 - India rejected the Security Council's plan for UN supervision over plebiscite in Kashmir.

1953    - A heart-lung machine designed by Dr. John Heysham Gibbon was used to successfully complete the first open-heart surgery, demonstrating that an artificial device can temporarily mimic the functions of the heart. 

 

2015 - In response to terrorist dangers such as the January shootings at French satire magazine 'Charlie Hebdo', the French National Assembly passes a law to expand the government's surveillance powers; critics warn that the act will violate civil liberties.

2019 - One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction according to a major new UN report.

Born

1856 -   Sigmund Freud, Austrian father of psychoanalysis.

1861 - Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress.

1861- Radindranath Tagore, poet/mystic/composer, Nobel 1913.

1983 – Gagan Narang, sportsperson (shooting).

RIP....

1589 - Mian Tansen, famous singer of Akbar's court.

1922 - Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur.

1952 - Maria Montessori, pioneer in modern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techniques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education.

You may have known 

 

Pakistan military displays more of an indirect exploitation through the retired personnel. They act as primary conduits for the covert use of the country's resources.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

Raj Kadyan