Motto for Today: ‘If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit.’

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

On this day, May.13…….

1796 – English physician Edward Jenner successfully administered the first vaccination against smallpox to an eight-year-old boy, with material from the sores of dairymaid who had a mild case of cowpox. This tested a conventional wisdom he had heard that those who had survived cowpox seemed to be immune to the deadly smallpox disease.

1850 – The first U.S. patent for a dishwashing machine was issued to Joel Houghton of Ogden, NY.

1862 – Swiss watchmaker Adolphe Nicole patented the chronograph, which was able to give split-second timing of sports events.

1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrives in Fiji.

1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

1954 – President issues an order extending application of Indian Constitution to Kashmir with the concurrence of the State government.

1955 – The Warsaw Pact is established.

1973 – Skylab launched, 1st Space Station.

1986 – Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank’s complete diary.

1992 – LTTE banned in India.

2019 – New study on the moon shows it is still shrinking with recent moonquakes as it cools, published in journal “Nature Geoscience”.
2021 – World’s largest iceberg ‘A-76’ at 1,667-square-miles (4,320 square km) calves off the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

RIP….

1923 – Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar, one of the founder members of Indian Congress and social reformer.

You may have known….
Emus cannot walk backward.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}