Motto for Today: ‘Life begins on the other side of despair.’
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 Books
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Jan.16…….
1761 – The British capture Pondicherry, India, from the French.
1818 – The Rana of Udaipur signed a treaty with the British to protect Mewar.
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).
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 photofinish camera was installed (at a U.S. racetrack).
1939 – Popular comic strip “Superman” debuts.
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.
2002 – UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and freezes assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the members of the Taliban.
Born….
1920 – Nani Palkhiwala, famous law expert.
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’?).
1946 – Kabir Bedi, actor.
RIP….
1938 – Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer.
1989 – Prem Nazir, actor.
1997 – Dr. Datta Samant, Trade Union leader, shot dead in Mumbai.
You may have known….
Tigers have a diverse diet that includes many different animals.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
(images credit Sentinel and Matrubharti)
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