Today’s Motto: ‘Choice, not chance, determines our destiny’
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.17……….
1844 – The first U.S. patent was issued for a printing press with different colours of ink applied in one impression. It was ‘polychrome printing.’
1901 – The first U.S. patents for a mercury vapour lamp were issued to inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt of New York City .
1908 – The first U.S. airplane fatality was Thomas Etholen Selfridge at Fort Meyer, Arlington Heights, Virginia.
1931 – Very early versions of 33 rpm long-playing records were first demonstrated at the Savoy Plaza Hotel in New York by Radio Corporation of America or RCA. The record players were so expensive that the product flopped. (The first plastic LP records as we know them, did not come out until 1948, when RCA rival, Columbia, began mass production of the LP).
1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad announced ceasefire and accession into Indian Union, which was settled earlier to the announcement.
1949 – Major Tamil Nadu political party, DMK was founded.
1953 – At the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, Carolyn Anne and Catherine Anne Mouton were the first Siamese twins to be successfully separated by surgery.
1956 – Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) established.
1960 – Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
2004 – Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.
2019- Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress “I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”
2019 – Indonesia raises the female marriage age to 19, in line with males, to curb child marriages.
2021 – France recalls its ambassadors to the US and Australia, describing their new Aukus pact and the cancellation of a major military contract as a ‘stab in the back’.
2022 – Cheetahs re-introduced to India from Namibia, after being extinct 70 years ago, at Kuno National
Park in Madya Pradesh state.
2022 – Protests erupt in Iran and continue the next few days at the treatment of women, after the funeral of M
ahsa Amini, a 22-year old who died in morality police custody.
Born….
1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Tamil Social Reformer, founder of DMK.
1915 – MF Hussain, erotic and controversial painter.
1929 – Air Chief Marshal La Fontaine, former Indian Air Chief.
1950 – Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India,
1985 – Ravichandran Ashwin, top Indian spinner, batsman.
RIP….
1999 – Hasrat Jaipuri, Urdu poet, film song writer. (His ‘Jiya Beqarar Hai Chhayi Bahaar Hai’ from Raj Kapoor’s Barsaat remains ever green songs).
You may have known….
The US Army has developed an algorithm for the optimal time to drink coffee.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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