Motto for Today: Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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, April 26………
1721 – The smallpox vaccination was 1st administrated.
1882 – The photophone was demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter.
1884 – The New York Times reported that “sending mails by electricity” was to be investigated by the Post Office Committee of the U.S. House. This was an early email proposal.
1892 – The ironing board was patented.
1929 – British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India. This was the first non-stop flight from England to India.
1928 – Madame Tussaud’s waxwork exhibition opened in London.
1986 – Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion. It was later estimated that the released radioactivity was 200 times the combined bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By 1998, 10,000 Russian “liquidators” involved in the cleanup had died and thousands more became invalids.
1995 – SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).
2021 – The US, the EU and other countries announce they are sending pandemic aid to India as it’s COVID-19 crisis continues to worsen.
2022 – World Bank warns the war in Ukraine will cause the “largest commodity shock” since the 1970s, with large economic and humanitarian effects.
Born….
1900 – Charles Richter, seismologist, who developed the Richter Scale for measuring the amplitude of earthquakes.
1953 – Moushumi Chatterjee, actor (pic credit-Rediff.com)
RIP….
1920 – Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan. Although self-taught, he was one of India’s greatest mathematical geniuses. (While Ramanujan was in hospital in England, his Cambridge professor, G. H. Hardy, visited and remarked that he had taken taxi number 1729, a singularly unexceptional number. Ramanujan immediately responded that this number was actually quite remarkable: it is the smallest integer that can be represented in two ways by the sum of two cubes: 1729=13+123=93+103).
1987 – Shankar Singh of the famous Shankar-Jaikishan duo, who gave memorable music from 1949 till 1971 when Jaikishan passed away. Shankar continued giving music under the same S-J banner.
You may have known….
About 12,000 different types of bacteria live in a human mouth. Some are harmless and protect us from infection. Others are harmful causing tooth decay and gum disease.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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