Motto for Today: ‘Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.’
As each day 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 a History!
On this day, May.04……
1799 – Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle against 5,000 British soldiers who stormed and razed his capital, Seringaptanam.
1854 – The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established.
1886 – Three patents for recording and reproducing speech and other sounds relating to a phonograph disk record were issued. Alexander Graham Bell was a joint patentee on two of them. From these designs, Bell & Tainter manufactured the first practical phonograph.
1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1927 – The first U.S. balloon flight ascent to exceed an altitude of 40,000-ft was made by Captain Hawthorne C. Gray of the U.S. Army Air Service. The nearly 2-hour free flight reached an altitude of 42,470-ft.
1959 – Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.
1994 – Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord to ensure Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho.
2003 The first cloned equine, a mule foal was born at the University of Idaho, U.S.
2015 – The human trafficking crisis continues in the Mediterranean, as approximately 7,000 migrants are rescued from 34 vessels intercepted over the last few days.
2021 – Malian woman Halima Cisse gives birth to nonuplets (nine babies) in Morocco, in only third known case worldwide.
Born….
1767 – Thyagaraja, Carnatic music composer.
1923 – Mrinal Sen, film writer and director; winner of several critic awards including Cannes, Berlin & Moscow etc. (image credit-Harish Tyagi, ShutterStock & Rotten Tomatoes)
1942 – Sam Pitroda, is a telecom engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker.
1945 – N Ram, journalist and prominent member of the Kasturi family that controls The Hindu Group of publications.
1972 – Jyoti Randhawa, golfer.
You may have known….
A reindeer’s eyes change colour depending on the season.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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