Motto for Today: ‘Character like a photograph, develops in darkness.’

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

On this day, Mar.27…….

1841 – The first U.S. steam fire engine was tested at the City Hall in New York City.

1899 – Guglielmo Marconi transmitted across the English Channel over the 32 miles, and trials continued for several days, at a speed of up to fifteen words a minute. The success of Marconi’s experiments made communications possible without expensive undersea cables.

1933 – Polythene was accidentally discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett.

1958 – CBS Laboratories announced a new stereophonic record that was playable on ordinary LP phonographs, meaning, monaural.

1961 – The first mobile computer centre, a UNIVAC Solid-State 90 computer loaded into a motor van, was used.

1968 – A patent application was filed for a “Wind-Propelled Apparatus” or Windsurfer  sailboard.

1993 – Hari Singh from Haryana hijacks an IA plane, but surrenders after 8 hours.

1998 – Sildenafil citrate (marketed as Viagra), the first oral pill to treat impotence, was introduced.

1999 – World No. 2 Viswanathan Anand won the title with a round to spare in the rapid section of the Amber rapid and blindfold chess tournaments in Monte Carlo.

2019- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country is now a “sp

ace power” after successfully shooting down a satellite from space in a ballistic missile test.

2021 – Iran and China sign major agreement guaranteeing Chinese investment of $400 billion and Iranian oil supply in return.

Born….

1965 – Renuka Shahane, actor.

RIP….

1552 – Guru Angad Dev, Second Sikh Guru of the Sikhs and Hindus of Punjab.

1767 – Khanderao Holkar, one of the Generals in Peshwa kingdom.

2000 – Priya Rajvansh, actor.

You may have known….

90% of earth’s gravity reached astronauts on the international space station.
{Compiled by Lt, Gen, (R) Raj Kadyan}