Motto for Today: ‘Many people can be responsible for your success. But you alone are responsible for your failure.’
As each 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 a History!
On this day, May.08…….
1840 – The first U.S. photographic patent was issued to Alexander S. Wolcott of New York City.
1847 – Robert W. Thomson of Adelphi, Middlesex, England was issued the first U.S. patent for Rubber Tyres.
1886 – Coca-Cola, the soft drink, was first sold to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. It was invented by pharmacist, John Stith Pemberton, who mixed it in a 30-gal. brass kettle hung over a backyard fire. Until 1905, the drink, marketed as a “brain and nerve tonic,” contained extracts of cocaine as well as the caffeine-rich kola nut. The name, using two C’s from its ingredients, was suggested by his bookkeeper Frank Robinson, whose excellent penmanship provided the first scripted “Coca-Cola” letters as the famous logo.
1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
1954 – Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French.
1959 – Dalai Lama would not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.
1962 – The era of the trolleybus in London ended. Just as they replaced London trams from 16 May 1931, they were themselves now being superseded by diesel-fuelled buses as economical alternatives. One trolleybus running on the final day was an “A” class trolleybus which had made its first journey for the original London United Tramways.
1996 – The governing Congress party is routed in Indian elections that have left no party with a clear mandate to govern.
1997 – India decides to import currency notes for the first time.
2011 – A near riot breaks out at the Beijing Apple Store as the Apple iPad2 goes on sale in the People’s Republic of China.
2014 – World’s oldest astrolabe (mariner’s navigator tool) c. 1498 from Portuguese shipwreck of explorer Vasco da Gama found near Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman.
2021 – Bombings outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, kill at least 50 people, mostly teenage girls, amid growing fears about US military withdrawal,
Born….
1906 – General PN Thapar, Former Army Chief.
1916 – Chinmayananda Saraswati, spiritual leader and educator.
1965 – Shiny Abraham, athlete. (She has been a National Champion in 800 metres for 14 years. She collected a total of 18 gold and two silver medals from the seven South Asian Federation Meets she has competed).
You may have known….
The Chinchorro of South America were mummifying bodies 2,000 years before the Ancient Egyptians.
{Compiled by Lt. Ge, (R) Raj Kadyan}
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