Today’s Motto: ‘Storms have their use – they unlock our true strength’
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.13……
1500 – Predro Álvares Cabral and his Portuguese expedition arrive in Calicut.
1833 – The first imported shipment of ice arrived in Calcutta from Boston. The ice, in 2 – 3 cu. ft. blocks, had been cut from local lakes in winter, and stored since then. During the over four month voyage, about 80 tons was lost, but in the Indian unit of weight, the amount that arrived was about 3,000 maund. It was priced at four annas per seer.
1845 – English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the ‘Faraday effect’, the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light.
1849 – 1st U.S. prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy).
1899 – The first American automobile fatality resulted when Henry H. Bliss stepped into the path of an approaching horseless carriage driven by Arthur Smith.
1906 – 1st airplane flight in Europe.
1971 – World Hockey Association formed.
1992 – Indian Union government decides to form a National Human Rights Commission.
2000 – Indian Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments.
2018 -Nearly 40% of all female suicides occur in India according to report published in “The Lancet”.
2018 – Islamic extremism by 121 groups caused 84,000 deaths in 2017 according to report by Global Extremist Monitor presented by Tony Blair.
Born….
1973 – Mahima Chaudhry, Bollywood actor.
RIP….
1984 – Swami Brahmanand. He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non-Cooperation Movement
and Quit India Movement.
1997 – Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites (Born on 26 Aug. 1910 as Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC in Albania, she was a Catholic Nun)
Titbits….
2020 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Austrian Dominic Thiem becomes first in 70 years to recover from 2 sets down to win US crown; beats Alexander Zverev of Germany 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6.
You may have known….
Over 40 billion work hours are lost each year in Africa to the need to fetch drinking water.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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