Today’s Motto: ‘Good things come to people who wait…..

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

On this day, Sep.27……..

1825 – The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson’s Stockton &

Darlington’s line in England. This proved the launchpad for the development of the railways, which was to take the world by storm over the following years(Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images (Pic credit -iStock).

1854 – The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurred when the steamship S.S. Arctic sank and over 300 lives lost.

1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².

1908 – The first production Ford Model T car left the factory. It had a 20-hp 4-cylinder engine, with versions starting at $850.

1922 – Scientists at the Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory near Washington demonstrated that if a ship passed through a radio wave being broadcast between two stations, that ship could be detected, the    essentials of radar.

1925 – Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh was established in Nagpur.

1950 – Mihir Sen became the first Indian to swim across the British Channel.

1950 – The answering machine was invented.

1960 – Europe’s first “moving pavement”, the travelator, opened.

1964 – Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

1988 – The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded in Burma (Myanmar).

2018 – India’s Supreme Court overturns 158-year old rule, section 497, decriminalizing adultery because it was discriminatory against women.

Born….

1873 – Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly.

1932 – Yash Chopra, Bollywood film director, producer. Brother of BR Chopra, producer of Mahabharat Serial (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images).

1953 – Mata Amrotanandamayi, a Hindu spiritual leader and guru who is revered as a saint by her followers.

RIP….

1833 – Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in

You may have known….

About 12,000 different types of bacteria live in a human mouth. Some are harmless and protect us from infect

ion. Others are harmful causing tooth decay and gum disease.

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