Today’s Motto: ‘What other people think of you is their business, not yours’
As Every 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 History!
On this day, Aug.25…….
1804 – Alicia Thornton becomes first female jockey in England riding at Knavesmire in Yorkshire.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb makes the 1st observed and unassisted swim across the English Channel in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
1908 – National Association of Colored Nurses forms.
1910 – Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1920 – Russia suffers a final decisive defeat in the Battle of Warsaw against Poland.
1924 – International maritime treaty drawn.
2017 – Indian spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is convicted of raping two of his followers in Panchkula.
2020 – WHO announces that Africa has eradicated polio (defined as four years since last case).
1957 – The Indian Polo team won the World Cup.
Born:
1533 – Grand Prince of Moscow , Ivan Vasilyevitch (1533-47) and 1st Tsar of Russia (1547-75 and 1576-84), born in Kolomenskoye, Russia.
1759 – William Wilberforce, Former Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, who fought for abolition of slavery from British society.
1811 – Joseph Dana Webster, American civil engineer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hampton, New Hampshire (d. 1876)
1825 – Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
1845 – Ludwig II, Mad king of Bavaria (1864-86), born in Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, Germany (d. 1886) {pic credit- Schloss Neushwantein)
RIP:
1819 – James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical
engineer and chemist steam engine), dies at 83
2009 – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the U.S. Senate, died at age 77 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a battle with a brain tumor.
2018 – Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who had spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before a 35-year political career that took him to the Republican presidential nomination, died at the age of 81 after battling brain cancer for more than a year.
You may have known….
The air in most airplane cabins is drier than the Sahara Desert.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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