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This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Sept. 14…
1716 – The first lighthouse in America, called Boston Light, was first lit just before sunset. This has guided ships since then. In the 1600s, treacherous rocks caused countless loss of lives. False signal fires lit in the wrong places by “wreckers” lured ships aground to plunder. (Boston Light was blown up by the British in 1776, but rebuilt in 1783. The lighthouse is also the last remaining manned station in the U.S).
1820 – Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning.
1886 – The first U.S. patent for a typewriter ribbon was issued to George Kerr Anderson. His invention was to provide portions near the ends of a ribbon with a colour contrasting from that of the body of the ribbon. This was intended to notify the operator of the machine to manually change the direction of the ribbon feed. Although the typed result near the end of a ribbon would be in a different colour, it was not lost.
1905 – The oldest car race still run was first held on the Isle of Man, Great Britain for the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy.
1948 – Ground breaking ceremony for United Nations world headquarters in New York.
1953 – Andhra Pradesh was established. Hyderabad became the capital instead of Kurnul.
1965 – Pakistan Air Force bombs Calcutta and Agartala civilian airports.
1991 – Assam declared ‘disturbed area’, army launches ‘Operation Rhino’ against ULFA militants.
2012 – The Japanese Coast Guard reports six Chinese Marine Surveillance ships are sighted near the disputed Senkaku Islands; China claims the ‘two surveillance ship fleets’ are in waters around the islands for purposes of ‘patrols and law enforcement’.
2020 – Astronomers report possible sign of life on Venus, after detecting phosphine in planet’s atmosphere by telescope.
2021 – US records lowest level of people living in poverty since records began in 1967 (9.1% vs 11.8% in 2019), due to increase in government aid
Born….
1930 – Rajkumar Kohli, film producer-cum-director
1984 – Ayushmann Khurrana, actor, presenter, singer.
RIP….
1868 – Swami Virjanand, Sanskrit grammar litterateur and master.
You may have known….
There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compiled by Lt. Col. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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