Today’s Motto: ‘Obstacles are the cost of Greatness’

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This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!

On this day, Sep.26…./…

1818 – The first transfusion in Great Britain using human blood (as opposed to animal blood) took place at Guy’s Hospital, London, by Dr. James Blundell.

1938 – Hitler issues ultimatum to Czechoslovakia government, demanding Sudenten Land (map credit -Baylor Univ.).

1960 – Fidel Castro gives a very long speech at the United Nations, 4 hours, 29 minutes. (The longest speech ever given to the UN was delivered in 1957 by the Indian politician VK Krishna Menon, who talked for nearly eight hours while defending India’s position on Kashmir).

1975 – Notification to pay equal remuneration to both men and women workers was promulgated in India.

1975 – Constitution (39th Amendment) Bill 1975, placing election of the President, Vice President, Prime Minister and Speaker of the Lok Sabha beyond the scrutiny of the judiciary, approved by Indian Parliament.

1979 – Ch. Charan Singh launches a new party called the Lok Dal.

1985 – P.T. Usha sets record for 100m (Women) in 11.39 seconds at Jakarta.

1991 – Four men and four women entered the Biosphere 2, an airtight, self-contained structure in Oracle, Arizona, where they would live for two years. The 7,200,000-cu-ft sealed glass and space-frame structure contained 5 biomes, including a 900,000-gallon ocean, a rain forest, a desert, agricultural areas and a human habitat. Biosphere 2 was designed as replica of Earth’s environment. During their stay, the crew experienced various problems. Limited agricultural productivity restricted their diet. Micro-organisms in the soil reduced oxygen

levels in the atmosphere and added nitrous oxide. The crew emerged on 26 Sep 1993. Unfortunately, the problems with the project’s results brought scientific disdain.

1996 – Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. (Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966).

2017 – Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving – last country in the world to do so.
2019 – US Income inequality widest for over 50 years, worst in California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and New York, according to new census figures.

2022- Edward Snowden, former US intelligence contractor who exposed NSA surveillance program granted Russian citizenship by Vladimir Putin.

Born….

1921 – Sub Joginder Singh PVC, Indo-China War Hero (1962).

1923 – Dev Anand, film producer, director and actor. (Born Dharam Devdutt Pishorimal Anand in Shakargarh, Gurdaspur, Punjab), Dev Anand aspired to become a performer after seeing Ashok Kumar’s performance in films like Achhut Kanya and Kismet. While shooting the film Hum Ek Hain, Anand befriended the actor Guru Dutt. They formed a mutual understanding that when Anand produced a film, Dutt would direct it and when Dutt directed a film, Anand would act in it (video credit- Gane Sune Ansune -Jukebox).

1932 – Dr. Manmohan Singh, Indian economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term.

1981 – Serena Williams, American tennis star.

RIP….

1902 – Levi Strauss, German-American inventor and manufacturer of jeans, he was one of the best-known beneficiaries of California’s gold rush economic boom.

1956 – Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great social reformer, industrialist, patriot and founder of the Kirloskar Industries.

1977 – Uday Shankar (Chowdhury), producer and director of dance-based film ‘Kalpana’. His main achievement was the blending of the Indian classical style with the Western Ballet and various folk dances. (He was the elder brother of Pandit Ravishankar).

1989 – Hemant Kumar (Mukhopadhyay), singer.

You may have known….

The T-shirt was popularised in the early 1900s after it was marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons.

{Compiled by Lt. Ge. (R) Raj Kadyan}