Today’s Motto: ‘A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to talk’

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

On this day, Sep.12……

1624 – 1st submarine tested on the Thames, London. The concept of underwater combat has roots deep in antiquity but the first known military use occurred during the siege of Syracuse (415 – 413 BC), where divers cleared obstructions.

1910 – World’s 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed in Los Angeles.

1940 – Five schoolboys exploring the Grotte de Lascaux, France, discovered an astonishing display of prehistoric art depicting animals in a variety of styles, which dated back to 15,000 BC.

1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrated his invention of a miniaturised electronic circuit to his supervisor at Texas Instruments, now recognised as the first integrated circuit to be built and operated (Pic credit-My Hero).

1959 – Luna 2 was launched, one of a series of unmanned Soviet lunar probes, and 36 hours later on 14 Sep 1959 would become the first spacecraft to strike the Moon.

1970 – 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport.

1992 – Mark Lee and Jan David became the first married couple to form part of the crew of space Shuttle Endeavour.

2013 – NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe makes history by advancing past the solar system – becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space.

2018 – More than 3,600 children reported abused by Catholic priests in Germany (1946-2014) in leaked report.

2018 – Oldest known human drawing discovered, a hashtag-like abstract drawing with red ochre, 73,000 years old, in Blombos Cave, South Africa published in “Nature” (pic credit- National Geographic).

2021 – Taliban says women must study in gender-segregated classrooms in Afghanistan.

2022 – Modern slavery (forced labour and forced marriages) has increased by 10 million to 50 million people in the last five years according to the UN’s International Labour Organization.

Born….

1958 – Puneet Issar, Bollywood actor, who played the role of Duryodhan in Mahabharat serial by BR Chopra (Pic  credit-Koo)

RIP….

1779 – Garibdas, follower of Saint Kabir and founder of ‘Garib Panth’ (photo credit- www.Satsahib.org).

1992 – Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDS.

2009 – Raj Singh Dungarpur, was a president of Board of Control for Cricket in India. He played first class cricket for 16 years and was in and out of the Board of Control for more than 20 years.

You may have known….

Traffic in so bad in Bangkok that the police have a special unit for fdelivering babies that don’t make it to the hospital on time.

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