Motto for Today: ‘Stop stopping yourself ‘
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, Sept. 08 ………
1854 – Dr. John Snow removed the handle of the Broad Street water pump in London, thus effectively halting further spread of cholera. He had mapped the outbreaks, and thus suspected contamination of this community source of water.
He was correct in this, one of the most symbolic gestures in the history of public health.
1930 – Scotch tape was developed by Richard G. Drew at 3M, St. Paul Minnesota, US. Originally, 3M only made sandpaper, and during testing Drew observed at a local auto bodyshop that auto painters had difficulty making clean dividing lines on two-colour paint jobs. After two years of effort in the company’s labs, he invented masking tape (1925), a tan paper tape with a light, pressure sensitive adhesive backing. Five years later, he invented Scotch Brand Cellulose Tape, the first waterproof, see-through, pressure-sensitive tape. Once marketed, the public found the tape had a wide range of popular applications in mending, sealing and joining.
1930 – 1st appearance of comic strip “Blondie”.
1954 – SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia.
1961 – Statistical evidence linking heavy smoking with heart disease was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
1962 – The Chinese make their First Incursion into Indian Territory in the Eastern Sector.
1965 – Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India’s options north of the Beas-Sutlej River line, after foiling the southernmost divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.
1974 – President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes.
2040 – The first visible conjunction during the 21st century of the crescent Moon with the five naked-eye visible planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – will occur. They will be seen clustered within a small distance of each other in the early evening sky, well east of the sun. (When a similar grouping happened in the sky on 5 May 2000, the Moon and the same five planets were lost to view because of the glare of the Sun from among them).
2012 – Pakistan and India plan to mutually ease visa requirements.
Born….
1887 –
, religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide.
1926 – Bhupen Hazarika, singer.
1935 – Asha Bhosle, famous playback singer.
RIP….
1960 – Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha.
1982 – Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Kashmir, who dominated the political scene of Jammu and Kashmir for 50 years.
You may have known….
Astronauts can’t belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compiled by Lt. Col. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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