Motto for Today: ‘Success is all about growing yourself.’
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.14……
1643 – Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4.
1842 – Illustrated London News; the world’s first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication.
1850 – The first U.S. patent for a dishwashing machine was issued to Joel Houghton of Ogden, NY.
1853 – Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk.
1908 – 1st passenger flight in an airplane.
1944 – General Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler.
1960 – USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule.
1995 – Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet’s 2nd most senior spiritual leader.
2018 – Chinese mountain climber and double amputee Xia Boyu reaches the summit of Mt Everest.
Born….
1657 – Dharmavir Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj.
1923 – Mrinal Sen, Bangladeshi-Indian director, producer, and screenwriter.
1936 – Waheeda Rehman, actor.
1952 – Congress having won majority 364 seats in Lok Sabha election; the first parliament session of independent India starts.
1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, as well as one of the world’s youngest billionaires.
1988 – Zarine Khan, acto
1997 – Manushi Chhillar, Indian beauty queen .
You may have known….
Ants can survive being microwaved.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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