Today’s Motto: ‘Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried Anything New’
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. 04…….
1665 – Raja Jai Singh treaty of Purandar was signed between the Mughals and Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
1882 – 1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison’s light bulb – lighting of NY’s Pearl Street Station.
1888 – George Eastman was issued a landmark U.S. patent for his box camera. On the same date, he registered the trademark name: Kodak. This design was the first Kodak mass-produced camera, and brought photography to the mass market. It used a fixed-focus lens which was still fast enough to take practically instantaneously exposures. Its roll film was enough to take 100 pictures, each 2½ inches diameter (pic credit- WIRED).
1904 – Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet.
1906 – U.S. patent was issued to Robert Eugene Turner of Norfolk, Virginia, for his invention of a “Type Writing Machine,”(typewriter).
1950 – 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1950 – The comic strip Beetle Bailey, created by Mort Walker, made its debut in 12 newspapers.
1951 – President Harry Truman inaugurated transcontinental television service in the U.S. when AT&T carried his address to the opening session of the Japanese Peace Convention in San Francisco.
1952 – India returns Peking’s famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached.
2006 – A vaccine for a type of meningitis was offered for the first time in Great Britain for all babies at two, four and 13 months as part of the national childhood immunisation programme.
2014 – Monsoon rains cause flooding over a sustained period that kills over 400 people in India & Pakistan.
2016 – Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican.
2017- Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai criticizes Suu Kyi’s lack of response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.
2018 – Italian city Florence bans people eating in the street in its historic centre.
2018 – WHO reports more than a quarter of people worldwide (1.4 billion) don’t get enough physical exercise to avoid major diseases.
Born….
1825 – Dadabhai Naoroji, 1st Indian in British parliament.
1952 – Rishi Kapoor, Bollywood actor launched by his father Raj Kapoor in Bobby film.
RIP….
1987 – Roop Kanwar, the 18 year-old Rajput girl who was immolated in Deorala village, Sikar, Rajasthan. Her husband, 24 had died a day earlier.
1997 – Dharmavir Bharti, great journalist, poet, playwriter and editor of Dharamyug Hindi magazine, Gunahon Ka Devta was his most popular novel.
2000 – Mohammed Umar Mukri, Bollywood comedy actor who acted in 600 films since 1945.
You may have known….
A study shows that eating up to 12 eggs per week for an year won’t increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. The yolk too is packed with nutrients and need not be avoided. Eating egg yolk does not significantly increase cholesterol.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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