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On this day, Sept.05…………

1612 – East India Company’s Navy established.

1831 – Charles Darwin first met Captain Robert Fitzroy, commander of HMS Beagle, who would be his cabinmate on the historic five-year expedition (1831-36). During that voyage, Darwin visited the Galapogos Islands which inspired his theory of evolution.

1862 – A balloon ascent to a height of 7 miles was made by metereologist James Glaisher and his pilot Henry Tracey Coxwell. (Although this was the greatest height then achieved by passengers in a balloon, its precise altitude is unknown because Glaisher lost consciousness and was unable to read the barometer).

1885 – Sylvanus Bowser, inventor of the first U.S. gas pump, made his initial sale to Jake Gumper, owner of a service station in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The pump held one barrel of gasoline, and used marble valves and a wooden plunger. It was built in Bowser’s barn, and patented in 1887.

1793 – In the French Revolution, the “Reign of Terror” begins. (The Reign of Terror {6 September 1793 – 28 July 1794}, was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and The Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of “enemies of the revolution”).

1958 – 1st colour video recording on magnetic tape.

1968 – 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan.

1972 – 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists. (The attack was carried out by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Shortly after the crisis began, they demanded 234 prisoners jailed in Israel and the German-held founders of the Red Army Faction. German neo-Nazis gave the attackers logistical assistance. Police officers killed five of the eight Black September members during a failed rescue attempt).

1986 – Karachi – Pakistan Army storms hijacked U.S. B-747, 19 killed.

1987 – Shanbagh, Vandana Rao, Shiny and Usha sets record in the women’s category for 4x400m race in 3.31.55 seconds at Rome.

1988 – India goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.

1995 – 30-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993.

2017 – Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph (280km/h).

2018 – Anonymous senior White house official opinion piece “I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration” published by the New York Times.

2019 – South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses.

2019 – Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world’s oldest living mother giving birth to twins aged 74 in Hyderabad, India.

Born….

1888 – Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India’s first vice-president and second president. (His birthday declared Teachers Day in 1962).

1956 – Vidhu Vinod Chopra, screenwriter.

RIP….

1986 – Neerja Bhanot, Pan Am Flight attendant. She died trying to save passengers on Pan Am Flight 73, which was hijacked by terrorists during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan. Was awarded Ashok Chakra.

1995 – Salil Chowdhury, music director.

1997 -Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Albanian born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979).

You may have known….
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Good morning. Have a nice day.

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