Motto for Today: ‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog.’

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

On this day, Jan.30……

1844 – Richard Theodore Greener became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.

1847 – The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
1911 – The first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer “Terry.” Pilot James McCurdy was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
1948 – Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse. (Prior to his death, there had been five unsuccessful attempts to kill Gandhi, the first occurring in 1934).
1950 – Development of the hydrogen fusion bomb (H-bomb) was ordered by U.S. President Truman. The codename of “Super” for the project reflected the far greater power of this thermonuclear device over the earlier fission bombs used to end WW II.
1957 – An external artificial pacemaker with internal heart electrode was first used. This ultimately led to the development of the billion-dollar pacemaker industry.
1958 – Yves Saint Laurent, at age 22, held his first major fashion show in Paris.
1994 – Peter Leko became the world’s youngest-ever grand master in chess.
1994 – Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee’s world record of 431 Test wkts.

                                                                                                                                                                            पहेली-सा जीवन है व्यस्त                                                                                                                                                                            उसे सुलझाने का अभिमान,

बताता है विस्मृति का मार्ग

चल रहा हूँ बन कर अनजान.

1996 – Mob ransacks Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Bangalore.

1998 – A new glue, Dermabond, able to replace painful stitches, won the unanimous vote of a medical advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration, US.
2002 – Japan’s last coal mine was closed. The closures were due to high production costs and cheap imports.
Born….
1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, writer.
1913 – Amrita Sher-Gil, writer.
RIP….
1528 – Rana Sanga of Mewar, who had built up an extensive and powerful kingdom over the central and western regions of Northern India.
You may have known…. Alcohol related driving fatalities are higher in dry countries than in countries that sell alcohol.

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