Motto for Today: ‘A happy heart finds music in the sound of water.’

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

On this day, Mar.19…….

1827 – Charles Darwin made his earliest scientific discovery, at age 18. He dissected some specimens of a baranacle-like marine organism, the polyzoan Flustra. Thus, he began what became a lifelong interest in natural history.

1915 – Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time).

1942 – US President FDR orders US men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty.

1945 – Adolf Hitler issues “Nero Decree” to destroy all German factories.

1954 – A sled powered by six rockets with a human rider reached 421 mph, running on heavy rails mounted in concrete at Air Force Base, Alamogordo, US. It was the effects of braking from such speed that was being studied, to simulate the effects on pilots bailing out of airplanes travelling at supersonic speeds. By year’s end, on 10 Dec 1954, further tests increased to a land record speed of 632 mph.

1954 – The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.

1958 – The London Planetarium, Britain’s first, opened in the west wing of Madame Tussaud’s. It is one of the world’s largest.

1972 – India and Bangladesh sign friendship treaty.

1998 – BJP-led coalition government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the second time Prime Minister of India.

1999 – The banned Maoist Communist Centre kills 34 Bhumihars at Senari village in Jehanabad district in Bihar.

2003 – Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.

2013 – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals.

Born….

1936 – Satydev Dubey, stage artist.

1939 – Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat, 112 on debut v England, 1959).

1952 – Mohan Babu, actor.

1984 – Tanushree Dutta, actor.

RIP….

1982 – Acharya J. B. Kripalani, writer, nationalist, parliamentarian, founder of Kissan Mazdoor Dal and president of Indian National Congress in 1946.

1992 – Rahi Masoom Raza, writer.

1998 – EMS Namboodiripad, first Chief Minister of Kerala.

2009 – Verma Malik, poet.

You may have known….

Wherever you are in India, you are not more than 7 km from a temple.

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