Motto for Today: ‘The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.’

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

On this day, Mar. 26…….

1668 – England took control of Bombay.

1780 – 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor).
1845 – A patent was awarded for an adhesive medicated plaster, predating the ‘Band-Aid.

1872 – Thomas J. Martin was awarded a patent for the fire extinguisher.

1885 – The first cremation in England took place at Woking, where a crematorium was built.

1895 – The Phantoscope, an early motion picture projector that enlarged film images for viewing by large groups, was patented by Charles Francis Jenkins.

1923 – BBC began its daily radio weather forecast.

1931 – New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.

1934 – Driving tests introduced in Britain.

1953 – Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine to immunise people against polio.

1971 – Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence.

1974 – Gaura Devi, a peasant woman, gathered other women around her in a village in the Garhwal Himalayas and—by hugging trees and through other forms of defiance—together prevented loggers from felling trees. This act by illiterate tribal and village women to reclaim their traditional forest rights was a dramatic moment in the ‘Chipko Andolan’, a non-violent struggle. Hugging of trees—“chipko”—was one such novel means of protest.

1992 – Accord with Bangladesh on Tin Bigha.

1996 – The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.

1997 – Russia agrees to help India in developing a state-of-the-art integrated air defence system, even as the two agree to carry military cooperation into the 21st century during the visit of Prime Minister Deve Gowda.

2015 – Shiite militia forces in Iraq boycott the fight against ISIS in Tikrit to protest U.S. airstrikes; the U.S. was responding to a request from the Iraqi government, but militias are concerned that the U.S. will receive credit for their work to date.

Born….

1973 – Lawrence Edward Page, an American computer engineer who was a graduate student when he co-founded Google, Inc. with Sergey Brin, while working in the same Ph.D. program.

RIP….

1814 – Joseph Ignace Guillotin, French physician who promoted a law requiring the use of a “machine that beheads painlessly” as a humane mode for all executions. (The beheading device ‘Guillotine’ was named after him).

1990 – Maniben Patel, daughter of Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
You may have known….
Till about 17th Century, India was the richest country of the world.                     
                                                                                                                                                {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}