Motto for Today: ‘When you want something passionately, whole universe conspires in helping you achieve it’

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

On this day, Apr.14…

1611 – The word “telescope” for Galileo’s instrument was first used in public by Prince Federico Cesi,

1659 – Aurangzeb defeated his brother Dara Shukoh to capture the throne of Delhi.

1863 – The first U.S. patent for a continuous-roll printing press was issued to William Bullock.

1912 – David Sarnoff, 21-year-old telegraph operator, picked up a message of distress call of the Titanic relayed from ships at sea: “S.S. Titanic ran into iceberg, sinking fast.” He stayed at his post for 72 hours, receiving and transmitting the first authentic information on the disaster. The ship’s sinking two hours and forty minutes later resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, which made it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history).

1914 – The first U.S. patent for a non-skid tyre pattern was issued to Stacy G. Carkhuff of the Firestone Rubber Co. of Akron Ohio.

1956 – The first practical commercial black-and-white video recorder was demonstrated in Chicago.

2014 – The Netherlands introduced glow in the dark road markings on a small stretch of highway in the country to test the concept. The markings are made with a glow in the dark paint that charges during the day and glows at night. It was done as an effort to replace streetlights and save energy in the country.

2015 – Archaeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans.

2022 – Russian ship Moskva, flagship of its Black Sea fleet, sinks in the Black Sea during the invasion of Ukraine amid conflicting accounts.

Born….

1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, popularly known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement and campaigned against social discrimination against Untouchables (Dalits), while also supporting the rights of women and labour. In recognition of his efforts, he was appointed the first Law Minister of independent India.

1919 – Shamshad Begum, singer. She was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.

1941 – Julie Christie, actress (Dr Zhivago), was born in Assam.

Titbits….

2011 – Rejean Hinse, a Quebec man wrongly convicted of a crime in the 1960s and acquitted 30 years later, receives $13.1 million in compensation.

You may have known…..

The first spy satellites used film that had to be recovered and developed back on earth.

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