Today’s Motto: ‘Our “I CAN” is more important than our IQ’
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, Sep.03…….
1752 – The day of 3 Sep never happened in Britain, nor the next 10 dates.
1935 – 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph).
1940 – Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21, Operation-Seelowe.
1967 – Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road. Today almost 65% countries drive on right-had side. (In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies. Since most people are right-handed, swordsmen preferred to keep to the left in order to have their right arm nearer to an opponent).
1976 – The unmanned spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the surface of Mars (pic credit – NASA).
1987 – Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India’s first and the world’s youngest Grandmaster.
1994 – Indian government decides to disinvest government holding in 21 Public Sector Units including ITI, IOC and ITDC.
1995 – Ram Jethmalani (lawyer and MP) launches a new party, Bharatiya Lok Panchayat, to rid the country of its evils.
1997 – Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directs the state government to pay an ex-gratia of Rs. 50,000 to the family of a college student, who had committed suicide following ragging in the hostel.
2013 – Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion.
2014 – Iran is strengthening gender segregation policies, forbidding women to work in public areas of restaurants and seeking separation from men in office settings; the move will increase the 18.9% female jobless rate.
2017 – North Korea conducts its sixth and largest ever nuclear test, saying it had successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb.
2017 – 1.4 ton WWII bomb defused in Frankfurt, Germany with 60,000 people evacuated, the largest postwar.
Born….
1926 – Uttam Kumar, Bengal and Bollywood actor.
1952 – Shakti Kapoor, Bollywood actor.
1976 – Vivek Oberoi, Bollywood actor.
RIP….
1997 – Anjaan (Lalji Pandey), well known lyricist (pic credit – Hindi News).
Titbits….
2015 – Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece 40kg (88lb) near Canberra, Australia.
You may have known….
Escalators grievously injure approximately 17,000 people each year.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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