Today’s Motto: ‘Life begins on the other side of despair’

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

On this day, Jan. 16…………….

1793 – French king Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution.

1868 – A patent for a refrigerator car, “ice box on wheels,” was granted to William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit, US. (He also designed the first railroad refrigerated car).

1877 – In colder regions the floors are covered by ‘moquettes’. In 1877 on this day, Halcyon Skinner, US, patented a power loom designed to securely weave tufting material into the carpet suitable for the ‘Moquette’.

1894 – Canadian inventor Theodore Witte was issued a U.S. patent for a “Puttying-Tool” to improve the application “of putty to window sashes and similar things.”

1909 -British explorer Ernest Shackleton claimed to have found the magnetic south pole.

1920 – 1st assembly of League of Nations in Paris.

1936 – The first photo finish camera was installed (at a U.S. racetrack).

1939 – Popular comic strip “Superman” debuts (pic credit-Pinterest).

1942 – Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress.

1957 – Three B-52’s took off from Castle Air Force Base in California on the first nonstop, round-the-world flight by jet planes. The trip lasted 45 hours and 19 minutes.

1969 – Two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships (Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5) became the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel.

2000 – P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up

and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad.

2021 – 10 Nepali climbers become the first to reach the summit of K2 in winter.

Born….

1920 – Nani Palkhiwala, famous law and tax expert (pic credit-Tax Titans).

1926 – O. P. Nayyar, music composer. Often labelled as “individualistic”, “aloof”, and a “maverick”, Omkar Prakash Nayyar may have been all that, but few would deny that he was among the leading musical talents in the Hindi film industry of the 1950s and 1960s. Who can forget the lilting ‘Reshmi salwar kurta jaali ka’?. (pic credit-TV9 Bharat Varash)

1946 – Kabir Bedi, popular Bollywood actor who also acted in Italian and British films.  Some are  Sandokan, Kites, Kache Dhage, Khoon Bhari Maang, Mohenjo Daro, Octopussy, The Black Corsair (pic credit-Media Storehouse)
RIP….

1938 – Sarat Chandra Chatterji, veteran  Bengali novelist and writer who write epic novels like Devdas, Parineeta, Charitraheen etc. (pic credit-Menonimus)

1989 – Prem Nazir, South cine actor.

1997 – Dr. Datta Samant, Trade Union leader, shot dead in Mumbai (pic credit-Wikiward).

You may have known….

Tigers have a diverse diet that includes many different animals.

 

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