Motto for Today: Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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.03……
78 – Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calendar started.
1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1883 – The first steel vessels of the U.S. Navy was authorized by US Congress.
1885 – Registered mail first authorized in US.
1923 – The first radio facsimile transmission to a distant point was made in the U.S.
1923 – Time magazine publishes 1st issue.
1939 – In Mumbai (Bombay), Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest against autocratic rule in India.
1966 – Plans to begin broadcasting television programs in colour from the following year were announced. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) would make Britain the first European country to have a schedule of colour programs.
1996 – Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas.
2005 – Solo non-stop global flight was made by Steve Fossett. He landed from where he had taken off 67 hours earlier. (The first non-stop two-person flight around the world, was made in 1986 by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan in nine days, covering 26,366 miles without refueling).
2014 – Bill Gates is named the world’s richest person in the ‘Forbes’ annual ranking, with a total net worth of $76 billion.
Born….
1839 – Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology. He started cotton mills in Bombay
and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor.
1947 – Swami Chinmayanand.
1955 – Jaspal Bhatti, actor.
1967 – Shankar Mahadevan, singer.
1989 – Shraddha Kapoor, actor.
RIP….
1707 – Aurangzeb, Mughal king.
1982 – Firaq Gorakhpuri “Raghupati Sahay”, great writer and nationalist.
You may have known….
The United States exports 20.4 billion dollars’ worth of blood a year.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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