Motto for Today: ‘Don’t mistake a bad day for a bad life’.

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

On this day, Mar.05……..

1558 – The tobacco plant was introduced into Spain by the physician Francisco Fernandes, as a healing herb. He had been commissioned by Emperor Philip II to go to Mexico to investigate the products of the Empire.

1616 – The book by Nicolaus Copernicus, ‘On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres’ was held to teach a false doctrine, altogether contrary to the Holy Scripture, that the earth moves and the sun is motionless. No person was to be permitted to hold or teach the theory that the earth revolves around the sun. This was decreed by the church authorities. (When Galileo subsequently violated the decree, he was put on trial and held under house arrest for the final eight years of his life).

1851 – Geological Survey of India was established in Calcutta.

1857 – Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens.

1868 – A stapler was patented in Birmingham, England by C.H. Gould.

1923 – 1st old age pension plans established in U.S.

1926 – China asks for a seat in the Security council.

1949 – The Jharkhand Party is founded.

1993 – The government de-reserves the mining industry, throwing it open to the private sector as well as to foreign investment.

1995 – India and China agree to open two new border points including Nathu La (Sikkim) to facilitate meetings between their military personnel.

1999 – The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ‘Pinaka” is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.

1999 – Geet Sethi won the 1999 World match play billiards championship in Midsomer Norton.

2013 – Willcom announces the world’s smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams.

Born….

1911 – Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force.

1913 – Gangubai Hangal, Hindustani classical singer.

1965 – Pargat Singh, hockey legend.

1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, actor.

RIP….

1992 – Sunder, comedy actor.

1995 – Jalal Agha, famous comedian and character artist.

1996 – Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, playback singer of Telugu film industry.

You may have known….

If we use headphones for an hour, the bacteria in our ears increase by 700 times.

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