Motto for Today: ‘People follow those who persist with hope.’
As each day is a new beginning in one's life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Books
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Dec.28……..
1828 — 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed.
1849 – Discovery of dry-cleaning. It is said that dry-cleaning was accidentally discovered when M. Jolly-Bellin, a tailor, upset a lamp containing turpentine oil on his tablecloth and noticed it had a cleaning effect.
1869 – William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, was issued the first U.S. patent for chewing gum, made of “the combination of rubber with other articles.
1886 – The first U.S. patent for a commercially successful dishwasher was issued to Josephine Garis Cochrane.
1895 – The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière presented their motion-picture films in their first public performance, at the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris.
1896 – In the Indian National Congress, Vande Mataram was first sung in Calcutta.
1981 – The first American “test tube” baby conceived through in vitro fertilization was born.
1926 – Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service.
1931 – The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and “untouchable” caste members.
Born….
1932 – Dhirubhai Ambani, businessman.
1937 – Ratan Tata, industrialist.
1940 – AK Antony, politician.
1952 – Arun Jaitley, Politician; Minister of Finance.
RIP….
1923 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer who specialized in metal structures, known especially for the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1972 – C. Rajagopalachari, the only Indian Governor General.
1977 – Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and litterateur.
You may have known….
Female dragonflies will sometimes fake their own deaths to avoid mating.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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