Today’s Motto: ‘If you want to carve your own path, start walking’

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

On this day, 02 Aug ….

1695 – A British patent was granted to Daniel Quare for a portable  weather-glass  Barometer.

1819 – 1st parachute jump in the  U.S.

1841 – The word—Dinosaur (“terrible lizard”) was used for first time by Richard Owen while addressing the Annual Meeting of the British Association in Plymouth, England (pic credit-buscabiografias.com).

1858 – Governance of India (under British)  transferred from East India Company to Crown.
After the occasion, the supreme British ruler in India was called as ‘Viceroy’.

1870 – Tower Subway, the first tube railway in the world, was opened under the River Thames in London. It was not successful due to low use and frequent breakdowns, and the railway closed within three months (Nov 1870). The tunnel was converted to a foot tunnel with stairs. It was closed in 1894 when the opening of the nearby Tower Bridge made it redundant. The tunnel now holds water mains and fibre optic cables (pic credit-londonremembers.com).

1875 – World 1st roller skating rink opens in London.

1880 – Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted officially by Parliament.

1935 – The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India.

1938 – The first nylon-bristle toothbrush in the U.S. was described in a New York Times business report. Dr. West’s Miracle-Tuft toothbrush, a new product, used synthetic DuPont nylon bristles instead of natural hog bristles. It had four guarantees: “No bristle shedding, 100 per cent waterproofed, longer life, greater cleansing power”.

1987 – Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.

1987 – Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title and is a  Snooker champion. . He won 8 World Professional Billiards titles, 2 World titles, several  Asian Gasmes titles.

2000 – The Lok Sabha performs a ”hat-trick” by setting off the process for creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.

2017 – More than a billion people around the world need glasses and 36 million are blind, according to new study published in “The Lancet”.

Born…. 1844–Dinsha Eduljee Wacha, a Parsee writer, freedom fighter and founding member of Indian National Congress  in 1885 (pic credit-www.kamat.com).

1877- Ravishankar Shukla.  Freedom fighter, Congress politician and Chief Minister of Central Provinces and Berar from 1946-50 and later of Madhya Pradesh 1950-56. His sons VC Shukla and SC Shukla  were also  politicians post-Independence  and  ministers.

1922 – Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist and scion of Birla family, grandson of BD Birla. He founded Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, Hyderbad Industries and emphasized on technical  and medical education. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan.

1924 – James Baldwin. American writer and Civil Rights activist. His novels on native Americans ‘Go Tell On The Mountain’ and ‘I Am Not Your Negro’, ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’  were  tremendously popular.

1992- Charlie XCX. (Charlotte Emma Aitchison).  British singer and song writer, who wrote  popular songs ‘I Love It’, ‘Fancy ‘, ‘Boom Clasp’ ‘Hot Pursuit’ etc. She won 3 Grammy, 3 Billboard  Music, 5 Brit  Awards,  9 MTV Europe Music and 10 MTV Video Music awards  and more.

RIP…. 1922 – Graham Bell, Scottish-American inventor of the telephone. He co-founded American Telephone & Telegraph company in 1885 and Bell System later.

You may have known….

India has 787 districts. The highest number is in UP – 75.

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