Motto for Today: ‘Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.’
As Everyday makes a new beginning in 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, Mar.02…….
1784 – Jean Pierre Blanchard made his first successful ascent in a self-built balloon.
1825 – Work began on the Thames Tunnel in London, the world’s first tunnel under a navigable river
1863 – US Congress authorised a track width of 4-ft 8-1/2 in. as the standard for the Union Pacific Railroad, which became the accepted/standard width for most of the world. (All high-speed rail lines, except those in Russia, Uzbekistan, and Finland, are standard gauge ie 4 ft 81/2 inches. It is also called the UIC gauge or UIC track gauge. A popular legend that has been around since at least 1937 traces the origin of the 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in gauge even further back than the coalfields of northern England, pointing to the evidence of rutted roads marked by chariot wheels dating from the Roman Empire. Snopes categorised this legend as “false”, but commented that “… it is perhaps more fairly labelled as ‘True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons”).
1866 – Excelsior Needle Company of Wolcottville, Connecticut, began making sewing machine needles.
1908 – Gabriel Lippman introduced the new three-dimensional colour photography at the Academy of Sciences.
1928 – Mrs R Valentino patented a doll.
1930 – Gandhiji addresses letter to Viceroy intimating his intention to break Salt Law if Congress demands are not conced
ed.
1959 – An experimental push-button phone was tested by the Southern New England Telephone Company to see if customers dial fewer wrong numbers using the new design.
Born….1933 – Anandji Virji Shah, famous music director.
1963 – Vidyasagar, South Indian film composer, musician and singer.
RIP….
1644 – Guru Har Gobind.
1568 – Meerabai, saint poet.
1949 – Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay), “Nightingale of India”, freedom fighter, social worker and patriot.
You may have known….
Unhappy people tend to sleep more.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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