Motto for Today: ‘Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.’
As each day 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, Apr.19…….
1451 – Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne.
1892 – The first Duryea automobile was operated by pioneer manufacturer Charles E. Duryea. He had been building it since August 1891. This would become the model for the first automobile regularly made for sale in the U.S.
1909 – Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
1919 Leslie Irvin makes the world’s first free-fall parachute jump.
1971 – Salyut 1 was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the first space station ever in Earth orbit.
1975 – The first satellite built in India was launched from Volgograd Launch Station, Russia, on a Soviet InterCosmos C-1 rocket. Named Aryabhata, after a noted 5th-century Indian mathematician.
1996 – AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
1998 – Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters.
2021 – NASA successfully flies its drone helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, first powered aircraft to fly to another world.
Born….
1957 – Mukesh Ambani, businessman.
1968 – Arshad Warsi, actor.
You may have known….
Around 100 people die choking on ballpoint caps each year in the US.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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