Motto for Today: ‘It is very easy to say Yes. The test of leadership is in saying No.’
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 Book!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Sept, 18………
1803 – Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle.
1947 – The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July.
1967 – English was adopted the official language of Nagaland.
1976 – Mao Zedong’s funeral takes place in Beijing.
2015 – Government of Uttar Pradesh confirms 2.3 million people applied for 238 menial office jobs.
2019 – Indian government proposes a ban on e-cigarettes.
2020 – Earliest dated evidence for the human species in the Arabian Peninsula as fossilized footprints 120,000 years old uncovered in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert.
Born….
1906 – Kaka Hathrasi, comedy poet.
1950 – Shabana Azmi, actor.
RIP….
1958 – Dr. Bhagwan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur.
1995 – Kaka Hathrasi, famous comedy poet.
Titbits….
1830 – B&O locomotive Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in America, lost in a 14-km race with a horse due to a boiler leak.
1846 – Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange last letters before eloping. (Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. In 1846 Browning married the older poet Elizabeth Barrett, who at the time was considerably better known than himself. So started one of history’s most famous literary marriages).
You may have known….
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compiled by Lt. Col. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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