Motto for Today: “No” simply means begin again at one level higher.’
As each day 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, Apr.28………
1910 – 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England).
1914 – W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner.
1919 – The first jump with the Army manually operated parachute was made by Leslie LeRoy Irvin in Ohio, US. This was the first test of this type, in which the operator jumps before pulling the ripcord. (He jumped at an altitude of 1,500-ft while flying at 100-mph. He broke his ankle upon landing on the ground).
1932 – A vaccine was announced for yellow fever for human immunisation.
1967 – Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title.
1986 – Russia announced the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, two days after it happened, on 26 Apr 1986
1993 – Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
(pic credit- NAMGYAL SHERPA for AFP/Getty Images)2018 – Indian government announces electricity has now reached every Indian village.
2019 – American diver Victor Vescovo makes the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana trench at 10,927m (35,849ft), and finds a plastic bag.
You may have known….
It is estimated that climbers leave a combined 26,500 pounds of human waste on Mount Everest every year.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Raj Kadyan}
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