Motto for Today: Anyone can be happy, but………
........It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
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.07……..
1530 – King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England’s church.
1799 – The Royal Institution in England was founded
1854 – Charles Miller of St. Louis, patented the first U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.
1897 – Dr. John Kellogg served the world’s first cornflakes to his patients at a mental hospital in Michigan. These were an unsweetened addition to the diets of his patients, who suffered from a variety of ailments, which he believed could be cured by a strict vegetarian diet and vigorous exercise. In 1906, his brother, Will Keith Kellogg, added sugar to the recipe and began marketing them as a breakfast food. Dr. Kellogg so thoroughly disapproved of this development that he sued Will in a fruitless attempt to keep the Kellogg name off of mass-produced breakfast cereals.
1933 – The game Monopoly was created and trademarked by Charles Darrow in Atlantic City.
1987 – Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs.
1994 – U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship.
1996 – Indian Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians.
2022 – Global death toll from Covid-19 passes 6 million according to Johns Hopkins figures, with 57% of the world’s population fully vaccinated.
Born….
1955 – Anupam Kher, actor.
RIP….
1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru.
1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Home Minister later. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959.
2012 – Ravi (Shankar Sharma), film score composer. He gave lilting music in films like Chaudhvin Ka Chand. Do Badan, Hamraaz, Ankhen, Waqt, Neel Kamal, Gumraah and Nikaah. He won Filmfare awards for Gharana and Khandan.
Titbits….
1908 – Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announced, “women are not physically fit to operate automobiles”.
2011 – The most expensive painting ever auctioned, ‘Nude, Green Leaves and Bust’, by Pablo Picasso, goes on display in London’s Tate Gallery.
You may have known….
There is no fruit that is blue in colour. Even blueberries are purple.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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