Motto for Today: ‘The way to get started is, quit talking and begin doing.’

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

On this day, Apr.24…….

1833 – Jacob Ebert with George Dulty patented the soda fountain. This is the same year as the birth of John Pemberton, creator of Coca Cola, whose famous new drink, in the form of a syrup mixed with soda, was first served in the soda fountain at Jacobs’ Pharmacy on 8 May 1886.

1886 – Petroleum was discovered in the Middle East. The first well to come in was on the Egyptian shore of the Red Sea.

1888 – The Eastman Kodak company was formed by inventor George Eastman to sell his revolutionary new easily-portable box camera using roll film he had introduced. These he mass-produced so that now anyone – without needing special skills – could take photographs.

1923 – Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers.

1925 – Darwin’s theory of evolution was reputed to be taught by teacher John Scopes in High school. For this, Scopes, 24, was prosecuted under the Butler Act, a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. On 21 Jul 1925, Scopes was convicted and fined $100. On appeal, the state supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the 1925 law but acquitted Scopes on the technicality that he had been fined excessively. (The law was not repealed until 17 May 1967).

1928 – Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented.

1929 – 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off.

1962 – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first transcontinental satellite relay of a television signal. The picture quality was poor, but the images were recognisable.

1970 – China became the fifth nation with a satellite in orbit with the launch of DFH-1. (ISRO built India’s first satellite, Aryabhata, was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975).

1981 – The first IBM PC was introduced.

1993 – IA’s Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant.

2006 – King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.

Born….

1973 – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian team Capt. at 23).

RIP….

1942 – Shri Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor.

1980 – Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief (assassinated).

1994 – S. L. Kirloskar, industrialist.

2000 – Pearl Padamsee, actor (spouse of Alyque Padamsee).

2011 – Sathya Sai Baba, guru, spiritual figure.

You may have known….
Cats spend about 70% of their lives sleeping.

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