Motto for Today: ‘What a leader does has far greater impact than what he says.’

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

On this day, 09 August….

1753 – The first steam engine imported into the American colonies. It was installed to pump water from a copper mine.

1839 – John Herschel made the first (remaining) photograph on glass plate. The image he captured was of the 40-foot, 48″ aperture telescope used by his father William Herschel, in Slough, England. It had sat decades without use, and was dismantled a short time later. In papers he published in 1840-42, he coined the new words “emulsion”, “positive” and “negative” and reinforced Stenger’s earlier introduction of the word “photography.”

1843 – A U.S. patent was issued, antedated to 29 Jul 1843, for a hand-cranked ice-cream freezer invented by Nancy M. Johnson.

1925 – Government Treasury from Postal Train was looted near Kakuri Station just about 22 km. away from Lucknow by the members of ‘Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.’

1934 – The first rocket fired in America to break the sound barrier was launched by the American Rocket Society. Its flight reached a top speed of 700 mph, a maximum height of 400-ft, and 1,600-ft horizontal range.

1942 – Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a “quit India” motion and campaign by the All-India Congress.

1945 – The first “bug” in a computer program was discovered by Grace Hopper: a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay and taped into the log. (The grand dame of military computing, computer scientist and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, coined the terms ‘bug’ and ‘debug’).

1963 – India was the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow.

1963 – The first ever live birth in captivity of a giant panda in the world took place at Beijing Zoo, China, when the male Ming Ming was born to the mother Li Li. (Attempts to breed pandas in captivity began in China in 1955).

1998 – India moves the World Trade Organization against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.

2000- Parliament approves the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Bill 2000, paving the way for the creation of a separate Chhattisgarh State.

2016 – Longest ever hunger strike ends, Indian human rights campaigner Irom Sharmila tastes honey after 16 years.

Born….1893 – Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist.

1648 – Johann Michael Bach, famous German composer.

1963 – Whitney Houston, singer.

You may have known….
It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound. 

Good morning. Have a nice day.
(Feature photo credit–Civil Aspirant)                                                       {Compilation by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}