Motto for Today: ‘Chance favours only the prepared mind’
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.29……
845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1561 – Akbar attacked Malwa at Sarangpur and defeated Bajbahadar.
1849 – Britain formally annexes Punjab after defeat of Sikhs. This finally put an end to the sovereignty of the Sikhs over north-western India, and was the sequel to a chain of events that had followed the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh ten years earlier. Internal dissensions and treachery had caused the defeat of the Sikh army at the hands of the British in the first Anglo Sikh war of 1845-46. When on 16 December 1846, the Lahore Darbar was forced to sign the treaty of Bhyrowal (Bharoval), the kingdom of the Punjab was made a virtual British protectorate.
1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey mutinies against the East India Company’s rule in India. It inspired the long War of Independence termed as Sepoy Mutiny by the British.
1886 – The first batch of Coca Cola was brewed over a fire in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. John Pemberton had created the concoction as a cure for “hangover,” stomach ache and headache. He advertised it as a “brain tonic and intellectual beverage.”
1942 – Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now.
1970 – Indian Government revises the percentage of reservation in service for SC\STs from 12.5% to 15%. Orders to be effective from 25 March.
1973 – U.S. troops leave Vietnam.
1980 – The first transplant of a human fingernail was accomplished on a 12-year-old boy’s thumb, using one of his own toenails. Dr Guy Foutcher performed the surgery in Strasbourg, France.
2022 – In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.
Born….
1816 – The 10th Dalai Lama.
1869 – Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England’s most outstanding architect of his time.
1929 – Utpal Dutt, actor, director, and playwright.
1987 – Ananya, actor.
RIP….
1990 – Adoor Bhasi, Malayalam film actor.
Titbits….
1848 – Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam.
You may have known….
You can never overdose on coffee. One would need to drink about 30 cups in a very short period of time to get close to a lethal dose of coffee.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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