Motto for Today: ‘A good leader’s attitude: I have not failed. My success is just postponed.’

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

On this day, August 21 ….

https://youtu.be/9Kx_2MTQW0Y  1841 – The first U.S. patent for a venetian blind was issued to John Hampson of New Orleans on a “manner of retaining in any desired position the slats of Venetian Blinds” (It is said the first U.S. installation of Venetian blinds was in 1761 in St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia).

1888 – William Seward Burroughs of St. Louis, Missouri, received patents on four adding machine applications, the first U.S. patents for a “Calculating-Machine” that the inventor would continue to improve and successfully market.

 

1986 – More than 1700 people died when toxic gas erupted from Lake Nyos, a volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon. The gas was carbon dioxide which, being denser than air, hugged the ground and flowed down valleys. The cloud travelled as far as 15 miles from the lake. It was moving fast enough to flatten vegetation, including a few trees. In addition to the human deaths caused by suffocation, 845 people were hospitalized and 3,000 cattle died.

2000 – Uma Bharti, the Sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party’s national executive committee.

2001 – NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

2015 – After 108 years a “message in a bottle” put in the sea by UK Marine Biological Association is announced found on a beach in Amrum, Germany.

2017 – London’s parliament clock Big Ben chimes for the last time before a four-year restoration process for its tower starts.

2017 – Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417m to woman who developed ovarian cancer after using their talc-based products.

2018 – Water-ice first detected on the Moon by India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft (2008-9) in findings published by scientists.
Born….

1961 – V. B. Chandrasekhar, cricketer.

1978 – Bhumika Chawla, actor.

1986 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter.

RIP….

1978 – Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (44 Tests for India, 2,109 runs).

1995 – Sbramanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astronomer and astrophysicist who shared (with William A. Fowler) the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for formulating the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars, which has led to the discovery of black holes and neutron stars.

2006 – Ustad Bismillah Khan, musician.

You may have known….
The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

(Bismillah Khan video credits- Music Today)                                                                                                      {Compiled by Lt. Col. (R) Raj Kadyan}