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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!
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On this day, Sept. 27……….
1825 – The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson’s Stockton & Darlington’s line in England. This proved the launchpad for the development of the railways, which was to take the world by storm over the following years.
1854 – The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurred when the steamship S.S. Arctic sank and over 300 lives lost.
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
1908 – The first Ford Model T car left the factory. It had a 20-hp 4-cylinder engine, with versions starting at $850.
1922 – Scientists at the Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory near Washington demonstrated that if a ship passed through a radio wave being broadcast between two stations, that ship could be detected, the essentials of radar.
1925 – Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh was established.
1950 – Mihir Sen became the first Indian to swim across the British Channel.
1950 – The answering machine was invented.
1960 – Europe’s first “moving pavement”, the travelator, opened at Bank Underground station.
1995 – 73 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani
and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
2015 – A “Supermoon” coincides with a lunar eclipse creating a “Blood Moon” over much of the earth.
2018- India’s Supreme Court rules overturns 158-year old rule, section 497, decriminalizing adultery because it was discriminatory against women.
Born….
1873 – Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly.
1932 – Yash Chopra, film director.
1953 – Mata Amrotanandamayi, a Hindu spiritual leader and guru who is revered as a saint by her followers.
RIP….
1833 – Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England.
You may have known….
There are places in India where a man marries a woman and moves to his mother-in-law’s house. Such as Khasi and the matrilineal Muslims in Minicoy, Lakshadweep.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compiled by Lt. Col. (R) Raj Kadyan}