Today’s Motto: ‘He who has never learned to obey, cannot be a good commander’

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

On this day,  Aug. 04……..

1921 – A facsimile was transmitted by radio across the Atlantic Ocean using the Belinograph invented by Eduard Belin.

1922 – Every telephone in North America was silent for one minute at sunset marking the time funeral services were taking place for Alexander Graham Bell. (Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone).

1956 – Apsara, India’s first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay.

1967 – World’s longest and highest Dam ‘Nagarjun Sagar’ made by Masonary System was inaugrated. It was built across the Krishna river at Nagarjuna Sagar. The dam is 490 feet tall and 0.99 miles long and has created a water reservoir whose gross storage capacity is 11,472,000,000 cubic metres (pic credit-Shutterstock).

1997 – Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna ‘posthumously’ on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose “should be treated as cancelled”, as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.

1997 – Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo).

2013 – The first ceremonial test train ran through the Marmaray rail tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait, the world’s first sea tunnel connecting two continents, linking Kazliçesme, Turkey in Europe and Ayrılıkçesme in Asia. (The submerged part of the tunnel is 1.4-km long running 50-m below the seabed).

2019 – Frank Zapata is the first person to cross the English Channel by flyboard in 22 minutes (pic credit-The Book of Man).

Born….

1906 – Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister.

1928 – Udham Singh, hockey player under whose captaincy India won Olympic Golds in 1952, 1956, 1964 and Silver in 1960. He scored maximum 14 goals in 1956. Was awarded Arjuna Puruskar in 1965.

1929 – Kishor Kumar Ganguly, legendary Bollywood/Bengal versatile  singer. He is also remembered as a comic actor, director and musician. He sang about 2678 songs under 110 different music composers. he won about 8 Filmfare awards, 23 nominations  and  several Bengal Film Journalist awards.

1961 – Barack Obama, first African-American president of America.

RIP….

1993 – Swami Chinmayananda, master in study of BhagwadgitaSwami Chinmayananda, master in study of Bhagwadgita.

You may have known….

Pushkar Camel Fair – Pushkar, Rajasthan: Held every  year in November, at the time of the Kartik Purnima full moon, the Pushkar Camel Fair is a particularly spectacular sight to behold. For five days, over 50,000 camels are shaved, dressed up, paraded, entered into beauty contests and races, and traded. Add to that an array of musicians, dancers, acrobats, magicians and snake charmers to entertain the  crowd !                 {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan)