Motto for Today: ‘A leader emerges through example, not by sermons.’
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 24….
1608 – 1st English convoy lands at Surat, primarily for purposes of trade.
1690 – Calcutta was founded by Job Charnock. However, after the landmark Calcutta High Court ruling on 16 May 2003, his name has been purged from all official documents as the founder of Kolkata.
1853 – It has been claimed that the first potato chips were prepared by Chef George Crum, an American Indian, at Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs, NY. When railroad magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was dining there, he sent his fried potatoes back to the kitchen, complaining they were “too thick.” The chef, George Crum retaliated by slicing paper thin strips of potatoes and frying them to a crisp. But Vanderbilt loved these “Saratoga Chips” and they became an instant success
1869 -The first U.S. patent for a waffle iron was issued to Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, N.Y.
1891 – Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.
1907 – The Bréguet-Richet Gyroplane No. 1 made what is generally accepted as the first vertical flight, hovering about 2 feet off the ground for one minute, powered by a 45 h.p. engine.
1932 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly non-stop across the United States, travelling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours. (Earlier in the same year, on 20 May 1932, she accomplished the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean).
1947 – Around ten thousand people were believed to have died in border clashes in Punjab.
1966 – Mihir Sen swims the Gibralter channel.
1971 – Crowds invade the pitch as India beat England by four wickets for their first-ever cricket victory in London.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party.
1991 – Ukraine declares independence from USSR.
1995 – Microsoft debuts Windows 95.
2011 – Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc., and is succeeded by Tim Cook, as a result of his illness.
2015 – Physicist Stephen Hawking presents a new theory on black holes at a lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
2015 – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the 1st time 1 billion people logged into Facebook.
2021 – UN says Madagascar on brink of world’s first “climate change famine” with people suffering “catastrophic” levels of hunger, after four years without rain.
Born….
1933 – Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004) and 1994 Nobel peace prize winner.
Titbits….
1997 – Gordon Spence discovered the largest known prime number, 2^2976221 – 1, the 36th known Mersenne prime number
. It took his 100-MHz Pentium PC fifteen days to prove it. At 895,932 digits in length, if printed out the number would stretch for 1.4 miles or if spoken 8 hours a day would take 28 days to complete.
You may have known….
Polar bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compiled by Lt. Col. (R) Raj Kadyan}