Today’s Motto: ‘Life is a blank canvas, you need to throw all the paint on it you can’
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.05…….
1612 – East India Company’s Navy established.
1862 – A balloon ascent to a height of 7 miles was made by meteorologist James Glaisher and his pilot Henry Tracey Coxwell. 
Although this was the greatest height then achieved by passengers in a balloon, its precise altitude is unknown because Glaisher lost consciousness and was unable to read the barometer … (pic credit-AgeFotoStock).
1793 – In the French Revolution, the “Reign of Terror” begins.
1958 – 1st colour video recording on magnetic tape.
1968 – 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan.
1972 – 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists.
1986 – Karachi – Pakistan Army storms hijacked U.S. B-747, 19 killed (image credit-Britannica).
1987 – Shanbaug, Vandana Rao, Shiny and Usha sets record in the women’s category for 4x400m race in 3.31.55 seconds at Rome (image credit-Book of Achievers).
1988 – India goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.
1995 – 30 member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn-in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993.
2019 – Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world’s oldest living mother giving birth to twins aged 74 in Hyderabad.
Born….
1888 – Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India’s first vice-president and second president. His birthday declared Teachers Day in 1962; (Photo credits-Pinterest).
1956 – Vidhu Vinod Chopra, screenwriter, cine actor, producer.
RIP….
1986 – Neerja Bhanot, Pan Am Flight attendant. She died trying to save passengers on Pan Am Flight 73, which was hijacked by terrorists during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan. Was awarded Ashok Chakra (pic credit- Mid Day).
1995 – Salil Chowdhury, Bengali and Hindi music director.
1997 -Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Albanian born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979).
You may have known….
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{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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