Today’s Motto: ‘God doesn’t make perfect humans. Embrace the glorious mess that you are’

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

On this day, Mar. 07……..

1530 – King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England’s Church.

1799 – The Royal Institution in England was founded.

1854 – Charles Miller of St. Louis, patented the first U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.

1897 – Dr. John Kellogg served the world’s first cornflakes to his patients at a mental hospital in Michigan. These were an unsweetened addition to the diets of his patients, who suffered from a variety of ailments, which he believed could be cured by a strict vegetarian diet and vigorous exercise. In 1906, his brother, Will Keith Kellogg, added sugar to the recipe and began marketing them as a breakfast food. Dr. Kellogg so thoroughly disapproved of this development that he sued Will in a fruitless attempt to keep the Kellogg name off of mass-produced breakfast cereals.

1933 – The game Monopoly was created and trademarked by Charles Darrow in Atlantic City

1987 – Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs.

1994 – U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship.

1996 – Indian Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians.

2021 – Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex broadcast on CBS, alleges Meaghan was made suicidal and subject to racist treatment by the palace.

2023 – Gender equality now “300 years away” and “vanishing before our eyes” for reasons including maternal mortality and early marriage, according to UN Secretary General António Guterres in speech for International Woman’s Day.

Born….

1955 – Anupam Kher, popular and multi-talented actor, acted in films

Saraansh, Pestonji,The Kashmir Files, Heer Ranjha, Nirbhaya, Vijay, Maine Gandhi ko Nahin Mara etc. He was awarded 2 National Film awards and 8 Filmfare awards (pic from  his film Saransh).

RIP….

1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian spiritual Guru, who travelled across the Globe and spread peace, amity and Indian ethos of life.

1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959 (pic credit-Pinterest).

2012 – Ravi (Shankar Sharma), film score composer. He gave lilting music in fillms like, Chaudhvin Ka Chand. Do Badan, Hamraaz, Ankhen, Waqt, Neel Kamal, Gumraah and Nikaah. He won Filmfare awards for Gharana and Khandan.

Titbits….

1908 – Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announced, “women are not physically fit to operate automobiles”.

2011 – The most expensive painting ever auctioned, ‘Nude, Green Leaves and Bust’, by Pablo Picasso, goes on display in London’s Tate Gallery.

You may have known….
There is no fruit that is blue in colour. Even blueberries are purple.

 

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