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Today’s Motto: ‘When the last tree is cut, The last fish eaten, And last stream poisoned…..

.....We will realise, That we cannot eat money'

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!

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

On this day, 03 Aug ….

1903 – Thomas Edison’s concern about X-Ray injury was front page news in the New York World newspaper. Under the headline “Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-rays” the history of injuries of his laboratory employee were described. “I am afraid of radium and polonium too, and I don’t want to monkey with them.”

1856 – A nearly complete, buried,  skeleton of a Neanderthal was discovered  first of all in Neander Valley, Germany and later  more  skeletons were discvuvered including  one  in a cave at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France in 1908.

1921 – 1st aerial crop-dusting (to kill caterpillars).

1926 – The first traffic lights in Britain were installed at Piccadilly Circus.

1943 – Gen. George S  Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice. (Patton’s hard-driving personality and lack of belief in the medical condition post-traumatic stress disorder, then known as “battle fatigue” or “shell shock”, led to the soldiers becoming the subject of his ire in incidents on August 3 and 10, when Patton struck and berated them after discovering they were patients at evacuation hospitals away from the front lines without apparent physical injuries. As a result, Patton’s career was halted as his former subordinates became his superiors) He wanted to be a senator and President of America..

1958 – The USS Nautilus became the first submarine to travel under the geographic North Pole when the ice-pack conditions were favourable.

1984 – Bomb attack on Madras airport, 32 killed and  several injured  (pic credit-thehindu.com).

1991 – About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India.

1994 – The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal.

2003 – Police in London, England, used the Taser electric stun gun on a suspect for the first time in that country.

Born…. 1886 – Maithili Sharan Gupta,  called as pioneer  of modern Hindi and Khari Boli poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker. He edited magazine Saraswati and wrote  Saket,  Rang Mein Bhang, Matribhoomi, and several books on Ramayana, Mahabharata, Buddha.  He was nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1947 until  his death in  1964.  He was honoured by Gandhiji by title of Rashtrakavi and Padma Bhushan by Govt of India in 1954.

1916 – Shakeel Badayuni, legendary Urdu poet, shayar  and lyricist who wrote many evergreen filmy  songs for Deedar, Baiju Bawra, Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Mother India, Dulari, Mughal-e-Azam,  Shabab, Dulari, Kohinoor,  Ganga Jamuna, Mere Mehboob, Saheb Biwi Aur Ghulam, Gharana,  Do Badan, Grihasthi, Phool aur Pather,  Bees Saal Baad etc. He won 3 Filmfare awards, Govt. of India issues a Postal stamp in 2013  (pic credit-indianetzone.com; video -Saregama Music ).

1957 – Mani Shankar,  Guntur-Hyderabad born  filmmaker who did Engineering in BITS Pilani before entering film direction.. He used computer-generated  imagery  in his films like 16 December, Rudraksh, Mukhbiir etc. He also did holographic campaign for Narendra Modi in 2012 when he was Gujarat Chief Minister. His films like Knock Out, Charlie Tango, 16 December and Rudraksh were  grand success on Box Office.

You may have known….     In the 2001-2011 decade India’s Hindu population grew by 16.8%, Muslim population by 24.6%, Christians by 15.5% and Sikhs by 8.4%.       (YouTube video- data 2024).

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