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

On this day, Jan.09………

1664 – Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.

1793 – Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the United States. It soared to 5,800 feet and eventually wound up some 15 miles away. His only passenger was a small, black dog.

1799 – Income Tax introduced in UK.

1811 – 1st documented Women’s Golf Tournament held. (At Musselburgh Golf Club in Scotland).

1816 – Sir Humphry Davy’s safety lamp was first used in a coal mine.

1915 – Gandhiji reached Bombay on his return from South Africa. He became a member of the Indian National Congress. He was awarded Kaiseri-e-Hind Gold Medal for Ambulance service on Jan, 11.

1923 – Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary.

1936 – Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army.

1996 – PM unveils India’s state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun’ at a New Delhi function.

2003 – Parvasi Bharti Divas was started. It is a celebratory day observed annually on 9 January by the Republic of India to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community towards the development of India. (The day was chosen to mark the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa to India).

2013 – U.S. Scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded.

Born….

1889 – Dr. Vrindavan Lal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social reformer. He mainly wrote historical and social novels, most famous being “Mriganainee”.

1922 – Hargobind Khorana, an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley.

1927 – Sundarlal Bahuguna, a noted Garhwali environmentalist, Chipko movement leader and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of Non-violence and Satyagraha.

1938 – CP Ramanujam, mathematician.

1965 – Farah Khan, film director.

1974 – Farhan Akhtar, film director.

1983 – Kalki Koechlin, actor.

RIP….

1324 – Marco Polo. He was an Italian merchant traveller and citizen of the Venice Republic whose travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du monde, a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China.

1945 – Sir Chhotu Ram. He was a prominent politician in British India’s Punjab Province, an ideologue of the Jat community and a champion of its interests. He was knighted in 1937 and was a co-founder of the National Unionist Party.

1996 – Fearless Nadia, actor. Mary Ann Evans, also known by her married name Mary Evans Wadia and her stage name Fearless Nadia was an actress and stuntwoman, who is most remembered as the masked, cloaked adventurer in Hunterwali.

2003 – Qamar Jalalabadi, screenwriter.

You may have known….

The city of Vienna, Austria, handed out 14,000 cans of deodorant to subway passengers when temperatures climbed to 95 degrees F in 2018.

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