On this day, 13 Jun...
1999 - The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector.
1842 - Queen Victoria took her first train journey, lasting 25 minutes. She was returning, by rail in secret, from Windsor Castle. The Queen became a regular user of the rail network, for speed and convenience and because it gave her ample opportunity to show herself and her family to her subjects.
1844 -A door lock was patented by Linus Yale.
1877 - Louis Pasteur began his quest to develop an anthrax vaccine by visiting the slaughterhouses of Chartres to take blood samples from corpses of farm animals that had died of anthrax.
1893 - Black American inventor T.W. Stewart was granted a patent for a mop.
1925 - The first telecast in the U.S. of objects in motion was invented by Charles Jenkins. He called it "visions by radio." The first mechanical TV system broadcast used 48 scanning lines and showed a model of Dutch windmill with its blades turning.
1983 - Space probe vehicle Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of Neptune and became the first man-made object to leave our Solar System.
2014 - A water-embedded rock layer is found deep inside the earth; the layer stores three times the water found in all the earth's oceans, suggesting that oceans developed through seepage of this water and not from striking comets as previously believed.
Born
1879 - Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, was an Indian freedom fighter, nationalist, and founder of the Abhinav Bharat Society.
1964 – Debashree Roy, actor.
RIP
1940 - Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor-General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Bagh massacre.
1943 - Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.
1997 - At least 60 persons were feared killed and several injured in a fire in Uphaar Grand cinema in South Delhi.
2012 - Mehdi Hassan, singer.
Titbits
1900 - In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night.
1920 - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post.
You may have known…
The first "smiley" emoticon ever written was in 1982.
Business News
- Govt extends the second “Special Drive Refund Fortnight till 16th June.
- National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA) under GST has passed its third order favoring Elevator manufacturers Schindler India by dismissing a complaint against it.
- IBBI prescribes Norms for Fee and other Expenses incurred for Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process.
- A Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act Court on Tuesday issued Non-Bailable Warrants Against Diamond Merchant Nirav Modi, Brothers Neeshal and Nehal and father Deepak, sister Purvi Mehta, brother-in-law Mainak Mehta and others.
- NCLT directs Resolution Professional of Alok Industries to Resubmit the Plan Submitted by JM Financial Asset Reconstruction and Reliance Industries to the Committee of Creditors(CoC) for Reconsideration.
- Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized 11 plots of land in Patna worth Rs 44.75 crore, attached by the agency in the name of a firm linked to RJD chief Lalu Prasad's family as part of the IRCTC Hotel Money Laundering Case.
- Aircel-Maxis case: P Chidambaram Appears Before Enforcement Directorate for the Second Time & was questioned by ED for 6 hours.
- RBI Needs More Powers to Oversee PSBs & to effectively regulate them: Governor Urjit Patel told to the Parliamentary panel.
- NSE launches 'Tri-Party Repo Market' Platform in its Debt Segment to Facilitate Repurchase (Repo) of Corporate Debt Securities.
- Railways Consultancy Firm, RITES IPO to hit markets on June 20, Price Band at Rs 180-185/share with the Govt. aiming to garner about Rs 460 Crore through the Share Sale.
No comments:
Post a Comment