Motto for Today: ‘If you don’t design your own life plan, someone else will.’

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

On this day, Apr.12………

1606 – England adopts Union Jack as its flag.

1799 – The first US patent for a comb-cutting machine was issued to Phineas Pratt of Connecticut. (The first U.S. made ivory comb was made in 1789 by Andrew Lord, who cut the plate and teeth with a handsaw).

1833 – The first U.S. patent for a fireproof safe was issued to Charles A. Gaylor of New York City, as a “fire-proof iron chest. He called his product the Salamander Safe, after the mythical salamander, an animal having the power to endure fire without harm.

1888 – A French newspaper mistakenly published an obituary for Albert Nobel, inventor of dynamite, calling him “a merchant of death.” (It was actually Albert’s brother, Ludwig Nobel, who had just died). However, shocked by the newspaper’s report, Albert Nobel began to seek a change in public opinion, which led to his decision to establish the Nobel Prizes.

1896 – Stamasia Portrisi bacame 1st woman to win a marathon.

1913 – Gandhiji in Indian Opinion draws attention to new Immigration Bill’s failure to fulfil terms of Provisional Settlement of 1911. Kasturba decides to join Passive Resistance struggle.

1955 – The Salk vaccine against polio was announced to work, and be “safe, effective and potent”.

1957 – In Bonn, leading German physicists ceased all work connected with nuclear weapons.

1961 – Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth in his spacecraft, Vostok 1.

1988 – Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse.

1992 – The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.

1999 – Lahore Declaration signed between India’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan’s Navaz Sharif on use of nuclear weapons.

2013 – 21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad.

2018 – Film star Kamal Haasan launches a new political party – Makkal Needhi Mayyam in Tamil Nadu.

2022 – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologies and is fined for attending parties during COVID-19 lockdown – first premier to be sanctioned for breaking the law.

Born….

1621 – Guru Teg Bahadur Singh, Sikh Guru.

1917 – Mulvantrai Himatlal Mankad better known as Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, India’s great all-rounder.

RIP….

2006 – Dr. Rajkumar, Kannada language film actor/singer.

2009 – Shakti Samanta, film director.

You may have known….

Canadians reported an average three UFOs a day in 2017.

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