Motto for Today: ‘Mindset is what separates the best from the rest.

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

On this day, May.16……..

1866 – Root beer was invented by Charles Elmer Hires.

1919 – Albert Cushing Read takes off on the first transatlantic flight in history.
1931 – London’s first trolleybus service was started.

1943 – During WW II, “bouncing bombs” invented by Dr Barnes Wallis were dropped on the Mohne and Eder dams in the Ruhr Valley. Wallace had realised that breaching the dams would destroy vital enemy war factories and hydroelectricity to the industrial Ruhr area. He designed an innovative bomb that could be delivered against the side of the dam. Wallis based his idea on the simple pastime of skipping stones on a pond.

1946 – The world’s first magnetic tape recorder was demonstrated for the first time by Jack Mullin.

1975 – India annexes Principality of Sikkim and it becomes 22nd State of the country.

1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to conquer Mount Everest.

1991 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress.

1996 – Atal Krishna Behari Vajpayee, leader of Bharatiya Janta Party, becomes the 10th Prime Minister for 13 days (from May 16, 1996 to May 28, 1996 [technically till 01-06-1996]).

1998 – India rejects China’s charges on N-tests.

1999 – Senior Congress leaders oppose Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister.

2010 – Japan conducts the first robot-conducted wedding in Tokyo.

2014 – The Bharatiya Janata Party wins India’s general election, defeating the Indian National Congress; the results appear to signal a desire for greater economic progress.

2017 – 10-year-old girl granted special 20-week abortion request in Rohtak, Haryana in a landmark case.
2019 – New DNA research showing bedbugs are older than humans – 115 million years old and outlived dinosaurs, published in “Current Biology”.
Born….

1931 – Natwar Singh, politician.

1988 – Vicky Kaushal, actor.

RIP….1994 – Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director (image credit-IMDb)

2014 – Russy Modi, chairman and managing director of Tata

Steel and a leading member of the Tata Group.

You may have known…. Author Stephen King has Triskaidekaphobia, or a serious fear of number 15.

 

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