Motto for Today: ‘A paved road may be comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.’

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

On this day, Mar.31……..

1851 -To prove that the earth was rotating, Leon Foucault demonstrated his pendulum experiment at the Pantheon of Paris at the request of Napoleon Bonaparte.

1870 – 1st black to vote in U.S. (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy New Jersey).

1889 – The Eiffel Tower, Paris was inaugurated, becoming the world’s tallest tower of its era. Designed by engineer Gustave Eiffel to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution, it is 324-m high and its base is square, measuring 125 metres on each side. The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second levels.
1896 – Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also known as the zipper.

1903 – New Zealander Richard Pearse reputedly flew a powered heavier-than-air machine, some nine months before the Wright brothers’ more famous and well documented flight.

1904 – British slaughter hundreds of Tibetans.

1933 – German Republic gives power to Hitler.

1959 – On fleeing from Tibet, Dalai Lama was granted political asylum in India.

1964 – Tram-way service ended in Mumbai. This last electric tram left Bori Bunder (CST) for Dadar at 10 p.m., crowds lined the route all the way at that late hour to bid farewell to the common man’s transport medium.

1966 – Luna 10, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon, was launched by the USSR from an Earth orbiting platform.

1999 – The PIO card, conferring privileges on persons of Indian origin settled abroad, is formally launched.

Born….

1504 – Guru Angad Dev.

1906 – General KS Thimayya, former Indian Army Chief.

1934 – Kamala Das, writer.

1938 – Sheila Dixit, politician.

RIP….

1972 – Meena Kumari, famous film actress.

2005 – OP Jindal, politician.

You may have known….
Cats have scent glands on the tail, forehead, lips, chin and undersides of their front paws.

 

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}