Motto for Today: ‘Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.’

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

On this day, 22 Apr….

1823 – Roller Skates were patented in Britain by Robert John Tyers. (The first use of roller skates is believed to be by Joseph Merlin in Belgium in 1760).

1913 – Under the headline Automobilism: The Wear of Roads and Trackways, the English newspaper, The Times, published an early comment on the expense of the construction and maintenance of roads as traffic became more mechanical and of greater volume. The correspondent pointed out that although a reasonable average width of a main road was 18 feet, the wheels of the vehicles together touched only about 6 inches of the surface. Thus, to save the expense of renewing the surface of the whole 18ft width, he offered the solution that roads be prepared with plateways. These would provide four specially prepared tracks (two in each direction) to take the wear from the wheels.

1915 – Modern chemical weapons were first used in a war. German troops released chlorine gas from several metal cylinders on the front lines at Ypres, Belgium during WW I.

1930 – Revolutionaries in Jalalabad hills near Chittagong in Bengal province, clash with British troops, leaving 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries dead.

1969 – 1st human eye transplant performed.

1998 – India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ”root out terrorism”, push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region.

2014 – Teddy Houlston became the youngest organ donor in Britain, aged only 100 minutes. The baby’s early death after delivery was

anticipated because of a foreseen medical problem. Teddy’s twin was born healthy, but it was known Teddy’s life would be extremely short. Arrangements had been made in advance by the parents to permit donation of his kidneys and heart valves. Surgery began three minutes after death. Teddy’s two kidneys saved the life of an adult renal patient. The parents are proud of this good outcome.

2016 – Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C.
2020 – Sudan bans female genital mutilation and makes it a criminal offence.

Born….

1870 – Vladimir IIyich Lenin, revolutionary freedom fighter and politician.

1915 – Hem Barua, famous Assamese and English litterateur.

1916 – Kanan Devi, Singer, actor.

1924 – Baldev Raj Chopra, screenwriter.

1974 – Chetan Bhagat, writer.

You may have known….

Some butterflies drink blood.

 

 

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