Today’s Motto: ‘It’s not the load that breaks us down, it’s the way we carry it’

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

On this day, Aug.20……..

1872 – William Robinson was issued a U.S. patent for electric train signaling

1896 – Dial telephone patented.

1897 – Physician Sir Ronald Ross made a key breakthrough when he discovered malaria parasites while dissecting a mosquito. This day is now known as World Mosquito Day, in celebration of this important discovery.

1911 – The first cable message sent around the world from the U.S. by commercial telegraph was transmitted from New York City. It read “This message sent around the world,” left the New York Times building at 7:00 pm and was received at 7:16 pm after travelling nearly 29,000 miles through 16 relays via the Azores, Gibraltar, India, Phillipines, Midway, Guam, Hawaii and San Francisco.

1913 – 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France).

1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.

1979 – Indian premier Chaudhary Charan Singh resigns.

1980 – Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone.

1995 – Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched.

1995 – India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.

2015 – 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight.

2022 – 22 million now at risk of starvation in Horn of Africa, up 9 million since January, according to the UN, after worst drought in 40 years.

Born….

1944 – Rajiv Gandhi. elder son of Indira Gandhi and PM of India: 1984-89.

1946 – N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder of IT Giant Infosys (pic credit-SugerMint)

1976 – Randeep Hooda, actor.

You may have known….

A sneeze travels out of human mouth and nose at 100 MPH.

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