Motto for Today: ‘Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection’.
As each day is a new beginning in one's life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, August 20….
1872 – William Robinson was issued a U.S. patent for electric train signaling.
1896 – Dial telephone patented.
1897 – Physician Sir Ronald Ross made a key breakthrough when he discovered malaria parasites while dissecting a mosquito. This day is now known as World Mosquito Day, in celebration of this important discovery.
1911 – The first cable message sent around the world from the U.S. by commercial telegraph was transmitted from New York City. It read “This message sent around the world,” left the New York Times building at 7:00 pm and was received at 7:16 pm after travelling nearly 29,000 miles through 16 relays via the Azores, Gibraltar, India, Phillipines, Midway, Guam, Hawaii and San Francisco.
1913 – 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France).
1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.
1979 – Indian premier Charan Singh resigns.
1980 – Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone.
1995 – Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched.
1995 – India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.
2020 – Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny falls into a coma after a suspected poisoning (later confirmed to be Novichok poisoning).
Born….
1944 – Rajiv Gandhi. (PM of India: 1984-89).
1946 – N.R. Narayana Murthy, businessman.
1976- Randeep Hooda, actor.
Titbits….
2015 – 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight.
You may have known….
Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compiled by Lt. Col. (R) Raj Kadyan}