Motto for Today: ‘Our doubts can create mountains and our faith can move them’
As Everyday makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, March 30……..
1791 – After a proposal by the Académie des sciences, the French National Assembly finally chose that a metre would be a 1/10 000 000 of the distance between the north pole and the equator.
1842 – Physician Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first used ether as an anaesthetic during a minor operation.
1843 – The first U.S. patent for an egg incubator was issued to Napoleon E. Guerin of New York City. It described a “mode of distributing steam heat, purifying air, etc.” for hatching chickens by artificial heat.
1858 – The first U.S. patent for a combination lead pencil and eraser was issued to Hyman L. Lipman, of Philadelphia.
1919 – MK Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act.
1923 – The Cunard liner Laconia arrived in New York City, becoming the first passenger ship to circumnavigate the world, a cruise of 130 days.
1949 – New Union of Greater Rajasthan was ceremonially inaugurated by Patel when the existing Union of Rajasthan was joined by four premier states of Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Hiralal Shastri became its first Chief Minister.
1959 – Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India.
1999 – A jury in Portland, Oregon, in a landmark case ordered Philip Morris to pay $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.
2012 – Japan has stated that if North Korea launches a rocket in April and it flies into Japan’s territory, the country will not hesitate to shoot it down if necessary. South Korea made a similar statement earlier in the week, saying that if it was necessary they too would shoot the rocket down.2019 – Swedish gamer and YouTuber PewDiePie overtaken by Indian channel T-Series as YouTube channel with most subscribers (both on 92 million).
Born….
1908 – Devika Rani, famous film actress. (Devika Rani Chaudhuri, usually known as Devika Rani was active during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema). ..(photo credit- Ghaint Punjab)
1913 – B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India.
RIP….
1664 – Guru Har Krishan.
2002 – Anand Bakshi, lyricist. (Bakhshi Anand Prakash Vaid was fond of writing poetry since his youth, but he did this mostly as a private hobby. He joined the Indian Army, Corps of Signals, and left after serving little over two years. He got his break writing songs in a Brij Mohan film titled Bhalaa Aadmi in 1958).
You may have known….
The different definitions of a word in the dictionary are called “senses”.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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