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On this day, August 19….
1600 – Akbar captured Ahmednagar. (On the fall of Ahmadnagar the emperor Akbar conferred the government of the country on Khwaja Beg Mirza Safawi).
1839 – Louis Daguerre announced the invention of the daguerreotype photographic process, the first process to allow an image to be chemically fixed as a permanent picture.
1856 – Gail Borden of New York, was issued a U.S. patent for his process for condensed milk. Condensed milk could be preserved for long periods of storage, and in this form, milk became more readily available in large cities than had been possible before. (His company’s advertising slogan “The milk from contented cows” was one of the great American advertising campaigns).
1960 – Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying two dogs named Belka (Squirrel) and Strelka (Little Arrow), along with 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants, beginning a safe round trip into Space, after which they became the first living organisms to return from space. After a day in orbit, the spaceship’s retrorocket was fired and the landing capsule returned to Earth on 20 Aug 1960. (Earlier, on 3 Nov 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik 2, with a stray Siberian husky, Laika (“Barker”). By design, it did not return to Earth; Laika died in space a few days later. On 12 Apr 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space).
1919 – Afghanistan declares independence from U.K. (Although Afghanistan was never part of the British Empire, the British fought three wars with Afghanistan)
1944 – Last Japanese troops driven out of India. (The Battle of Imphal took place from March until July 1944. Japanese armies were driven back into Burma with heavy losses. The Battle of Kohima was the turning point of the Burma Campaign, part of the South-East Asian Theatre of the Second World War. The defeat at Kohima and Imphal was the largest defeat to that date in Japanese history).
1991 – Janajev & KGB coup in Russia depose Mikhail Gorbachev.
2015 – The U.S. Navy announces that it will allow women to undergo its intensive 6-month SEAL training; female candidates who pass the course will be able to serve on SEAL teams.
2020 – Apple becomes the 1st US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached $1 trillion valuation.
Born….
1916 – Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India.
1940 – Govind Nihalani, film director.
RIP….
1976 – Jan Nisar Akhtar, poet. (He was also a lyricist for Bollywood. He wrote 151 songs. Notable among them were, Aankhon hi Aankhon Mein in Guru Dutt’s CID {1956}, Yeh dil aur unki nigahon ke saaye in Prem Parbat {1974} and Aaja re in Noorie {1979} and his last song was, Ae Dil-e-naadaan, in Kamal Amrohi’s Razia Sultan {1983}).
1977 – Groucho Marx, comedian.
1993 – Utpal Dutt, actor.
You may have known….
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually
sleep in other places.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}