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

On this day, Mar.16………

1527 – Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, attacked on Mughal Emperor Babur near Kanwa at Agra.

1830 – London’s re-organised police force (Scotland Yard). It is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service responsible for policing most of London. The name derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard.

1867 – Joseph Lister, applying Louis Pasteur’s idea that the micro-organisms causing gangrene might be controlled with chemical solutions, used solution of carbolic acid (phenol), on surgical incisions, and applied to dressings. Lister found that this procedure substantially reduced the incidence of gangrene.

1926 – Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184′ (56 metres).

1955 – President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war.

1960 – In New York a car was displayed with a battery recharged by solar cells.

1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

1997 – The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India.

1998 – Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.

1999 – The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.

2012 – Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries; 51 in Test cricket and 49 in ODIs.

2014 – Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design.

2019 – Beached dead whale found to have 88 pounds of plastic inside it, including 40 pounds of plastic bags, in Mabini, Philippines.

Born….

1556 – Amarsingh, Rajput king of Mewar.

1599 – Shahaji Raje Bhosale, father of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

1901 – Potti Sreeramulu, who later undertook a fatal fast for the formation of Andhra.

1910 – Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi). He was a member of the English squad during the infamous ‘Bodyline’ series and later captained the Indian cricket team.

1971 – Rajpal Yadav, actor.

RIP….

1945 – Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

You may have known….

Adult cats are known to meow only when communicating with humans.

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