Motto for Today: ‘No rain. No flowers.’
As Everyday makes a new beginning in 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, Mar.14…….
1839 – Sir John Herschel referred to “photography” in a lecture to the Royal Society—possibly the first use of the word.
1899 – Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was issued a U.S. patent for his invention of his “Navigable Balloon,” the
(Getty Images)rigid airship, known as the Zeppelin. It contained a number of independent hydrogen balloons used for lift.
1913 – John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation.
1931 – The first US motion picture theatre built especially for rear projection of the movie was opened in New York City.
1993 – India seeks Interpol’s assistance in investigating the sources of bomb blasts in Bombay.
1998 – Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri.
2017 – European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves.
2018 – World Happiness Report names Finland as world’s happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest.
2019 – Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud.
Born….
1879 – Albert Einstein. German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
1949 – Farida Jalal, actor.
1965 – Aamir Khan, actor, director and producer.
1973 – Rohit Shetty, film director.
RIP….
1883 – Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker.
1901 – Sam Browne. Born in Barrackpore, he joined the Army. Had his left arm severed from the shoulder in a sword fight. The wide leather belt used in the Army is named Sam Browne belt after him. He was a winner of the Victoria Cross.
1932 – George Eastman. American inventor and industrialist who was a pioneering manufacturer of photographic materials, including rolled film and the Kodak camera.
1963 – Jainarain Vyas, freedom fighter, leader, social reformer, patriot and a noble son of India.
You may have known….Premature babies are invariably left-handed.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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