Motto for Today: ‘Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb………..

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

On this day,  April 03….

1866 – A hat shaping machine was patented by Rudolph Eickemeyer and G. Osterheld.

1932 – Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.

1933 – 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest.

1934 – A British patent application for the first catseye road marker was recorded for inventor Percy Shaw. (“These are the familiar

reflectors which mark the lines that are lit up at night by the lights of passing vehicles. The raised surface in which the reflectors are mounted has a construction that “will yield when travelled over by a vehicle wheel and sink to the level of the road surface”).

1936 – Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds.

1949 – NATO is established.

1956 – Nehru announces that troops have been sent to control Naga tribal

1973 – Francis W. Dorion patented a “dual razor blade assembly”.

1973 – First cell phone call. The first portable phone call was placed by inventor Martin Cooper. The phone was 10 inches in height, 3 inches deep and an inch-and-a-half wide and weighed 30-oz. Since then, cell phones have shrunk to a mere palm-size weighing 4-oz, and are used by some 5.135 billion people (2018) around the world. {Cooper’s first ”shoebox” phone replaced a car phone of the time that weighed more than 30 pounds and cost thousands of dollars. A car phone owner had to drill a hole in his car to install the antenna and most of the phone sat in the trunk. A control unit with a handset was placed inside the car}.

1975 – Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it.

1988 – Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan.

2013 – A scientific study determines that common drugs taken for reducing cholesterol can prevent macular degeneration.

2015 – France has outlawed the hiring of models who do not meet new Body Mass Index (BMI) minimums for a certain period of time before and during a modelling job; the law aims to prevent promotion of anorexia among models and people who emulate them.

Born….

1914 – Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India’s first Field Marshal. He was better known as “Sam Manekshaw”. (He became Army Chief in 1969. The war of December 1971, which lasted only 14 days, changed the map of South Asia. Then PM Indira Gandhi and Manekshaw emerged as heroes in our country).

1958 – Jaya Prada, actor.

1973 – Prabhu Deva, dancer.

RIP….1670 – Tanaji Malusure, right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died during the battle of Singhgad fort.

1680 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, great Maratha emperor, patriot, soldier, freedom fighter, revolutionary, founder of the Maratha empire and great son of India.

You may have known….

When cats purr they are actually healing themselves, apart from helping them express pain and pleasure. Purring provides pain relief.

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