Motto for Today: ‘If you can dream it, you can achieve it.’
As each day is a new beginning in one's life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Books
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Jan.08…….
1838 – The first telegraph message in the US in which letters were represented by dots and dashes was transmitted. The message was: ‘A patient waiter is no loser’.
1889 – Herman Hollerith was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. 1st Computer was thus patented.
1927 – The first scheduled London-Delhi flight arrives after 63 hrs.
1940 – George Stibitz’s Complex Number Calculator was functional. Later known as Bell Labs Model I Relay Computer, it used telephone relays and coded decimal numbers as groups of four binary digits (bits) each. It has been called the first electromechanical computer for routine use.
1965 – ‘Star of India’ returned to American Museum of Natural History. (The Star of India is a 563.35-carat – 112.67 g – star sapphire, one of the largest such gems in the world).
1998 – Scientists announced the identification for the first time of a key brain chemical related to nicotine addiction, in the journal Nature.
2000 – The Government reconstitutes the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Trust and retains Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as a trustee along with Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prof. Yashpal and Dr. Abid Hussain.
2013 – U.S. Scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded.
Born….
1908 – Mary Nadia Wadia (Fearless Nadia), actor.
1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, actor.
1939 – Nanda, actor.
1957 – Nafisa Ali, actor.
RIP….
1884 – Keshub Chandra Sen, a leading 19th century Bengali thinker and reformer who was influenced by Christian beliefs which he merged with Hindu philosophy to form a unique synthesis of religious thought.
1941 – Swami Pranabananda Maharaj, father of Bharat Sevashram Sangha.
1984 – Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot.
1995 – Madhu Limaye, veteran national leader, socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan.
2018 – US record year for cost of natural disasters announced – $306 billion in 2017.
2021 – Twitter bans US President Donald Trump permanently “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”.
You may have known….
The world’s oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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