Motto for Today: ‘True gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.’
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.10………
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1857 – In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
1876 – The first use of an electric turnstile in the U.S.
1929 – The first submarine “lung” was tested.
1935 – American surgeon John Gibbon successfully maintained the cardiac and respiratory function of a cat using his invention, a rotating blood-film oxygenator in the first heart-lung machine.
1975 – The first home videocassette recorder, the Betamax, began sales in Japan. The format made by Sony used one-hour tapes, but a competing system was introduced by JVC in the next year called VHS (Video Home System) capable of two-hour recording. Both companies shortly introduced models with twice those playing times. Gradually VCRs lost out to DVDs.
1981 – The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
1994 – Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa’s 1st black president.
2000 – India’s population reaches 1 billion, baby girl Aastha born at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital chosen as symbolic billionth.
2016 – Indian fertility clinic announces that a 70-year-old woman has successfully given birth to a baby boy.
2018 – China announces plans for the world’s largest weather-control mechanism, rain-inducing machines for the Tibetan Plateau.
2021 – World Health Organization classifies the Indian COVID-19 variant B.1.617 as a variant of global concern.
2022 – Apple ends production of its iPod music player after 21 years.
Born….
1905 – Pankaj Malik, music director.
1927 – Nayantara Sahgal, author (image credit-SheSight)
RIP….
2002 – Kaifi Azmi, poet and songwriter.
Titbits….
2014 – Brazilian police distribute pamphlets to World Cup visitors with instructions on how to behave in the event of a robbery; the advice was meant to protect victims from injury or death during crime.
You may have known….
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months two rats could have more than a million relatives.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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