Motto for Today: ‘It is a great attribute to drag our thoughts away from our troubles.’

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

On this day, Mar.11……

105 – Ts’ai Lun invented paper, made from bamboo, mulberry, and other fibres, along with fish nets and rags. In China, before Tsai Lun, books were made of bamboo, which were heavy and clumsy. Some books were made of silks, which were very expensive. (In the West at that time, books were made of sheepskin or calfskin).

1784 – Tipu Sultan and Britishers signed the treaty at Mangalore which is known as the Mangalore treaty.

1795 – Battle at Kurdla, India: Mahratten beat Mogols.

1811 – The Luddite riots began in Nottingham, England. There was poverty and misery, made worse by the new inventions – machinery which could do jobs better and faster than people. In those days of low wages and the ever-present threat of actual starvation should those wages stop for any reason, these innovations must have made the prospect even more gloomy. There were food shortages resulting from the Napoleonic Wars, and high unemployment. A group of labourers attacked a factory, breaking up 63 stocking and lace manufacturing frames, the machines which they feared would replace them. During the next three weeks gangs of upwards of fifty men, armed with pistols, guns and heavy hammers broke two hundred more frames.

1881 – Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore.

1892 – 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts, US).

2011 – Sendai, a major 9.0 earthquake strikes offshore of Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture; 10-metre high tsunami’s are produced near its epicentre, reaching land through the Pacific ocean. The earthquake is also often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan earthquake. It caused 15,894 deaths, 6,152 injured and 2,562 people missing.

2015 – The U.S. will support the Ukraine in its fight against separatist militants by providing $75 million in non-lethal aid in the form of drones, ambulances and radios; Humvees will also be sent under a separate agreement.

Born….

1903 – General MM Shrinagesh, former Army Chief.

1915 – Vijay Samuel Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54).

1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian media mogul.

1942 – Amrinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab.

RIP….

1689 – Sambhaji, Shivaji’s successor, who was captured at Sangameshwar, was assassinated in the prison of Aurangzeb by Mughal officer Muqurab Khan.

1955 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin.

Titbits….

1302 – Romeo and Juliet’s wedding day, according to Shakespeare.

You may have known….
A sentence that contains all the letters in the English alphabet is known as a Pangram. (‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ is an example).
                                                                                                                                                      {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}