Today’s Motto: ‘The higher we soar the smaller we appear, to those who cannot fly’
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!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History
On this day, 28 Aug ….
1565 – Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Florida, established (pic credit-tripsadviser.com).
1600 – Mughals capture Ahmednagar Fort from Marathas.
1837 – Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins of Worcester, England began the manufacture of Worcester Sauce.
The first issue of the Scientific American was published by Rufus Porter , a versatile if eccentric Yankee, who was by turns a portrait-painter, schoolmaster, inventor and editor. Today, Scientific American publishes 18 foreign-language editions around the globe (pic-credit-themagazineantiques.com).
1883 – The first controlled flight in a glider was made by John J. Montgomery at 
Wheeler Hill, California. He sailed a distance of 603 feet at a height of about 15 feet.
1963 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous “I have a dream speech” addre
ssing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
1972 – General Insurance and Life Business in India were nationalised by Indira Gandhi govt.
1973 – India and Pakistan sign POW accord paving the way for return of over 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war.
1997 – Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
1998 – India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
2017 – A border standoff between China and India in Doklam ended after two 
months.
2019 – Climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage.
Born…. 1896 – Firaq Gorakhpuri (Raghupati Sahai) was a popular poet and U
rdu Shayar, lecturer. His collections Gul-e-Nagma, Gul-e-Ra’naa, Mash’aal, Rooh-e-Kaynaat, Sargam, Bazm-e-Zindgi: Rang-e-Shayri were some of his famous works. He was honoured with Jnanpeeth award and Sahitya Akademi awad in Urdu in 1960.
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905 – Major Dhyanchand, remembered as, Hockey Ka Jadoogar. He represented India in 1928, -32. -36b Olympics and is credited to have trained hundreds of young players until 1964. He scored over 1000 hockey international goals during his playig tenure. He was offered German citizenship by Chancellor Adolf Hitler in 1936 for having scored 4 out of 8 goals in Olypic Final, defeatimg German team 8-1. He was offered Colonel’s rank but he refused politely, saying “I am Proud of being an Indian!’ He was head coach in National Institue of Sports, Patiala and was awarded Padma Bhushan; his birthday being called National Sports Day and Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award instituted to pay tribute to
the Mohammed Ali of Hockey (as called by BBC).
1928 – Ustad Vilayat Khan, veteran Sarod player, one of the greatest classical music composer, who described music as Connect with God. He was decorated with Bharat Sitar Samrat honour but he refused to accept Padma awards calling the committees incompetent to judge his music (pic credit-Getty images).
1966 – Priya Dutt, daughter of popular hero Sunil Dutt and iconic heroine Nargis Dutt. Sister of famous actor Sanjay Dutt, she is a social worker and politician. She represented Mumbai North West in the Lok 
Sabha for Congress Party in 2005, 2009 but was defeated by Poonam Mahajan in 2019.
1975 – Ejaz Khan, popular Bollywood and TV serial actor playing investigative supercop roles.
You may have known…. A 2025 FLAME University report estimates 30,000 centenarians as of 2020 and projects it will
double by 2030.
{Compiledv by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
