Motto for Today: ‘Rule number 1: never aim to be number 2.’
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 a History!
On this day, May.17……..
Note: 17 May is World Information Society Day, (proclaimed by the United Nations).
1620 – 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey).
1839 – A water wheel was patented by Lorenzo Adkins.
1498 – Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. (17 or 20 May?).
1890 – Comic Cuts, the first British weekly comic paper, was published in London by Alfred Northcliffe.
1949 – India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1957 – Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.
1980 – V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
1993 – Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relations.
2014 – The BJP, wins a landslide election victory.
2019 – Taiwan’s parliament votes to legalize same-sex marriage, the first Asian country.
2021 – The first global study of its kind showed 745,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to long working hours.
Born….
1945 – B. S. Chandrasekhar, cricketer and leg spinner, is considered as one of the best bowlers in the world. He had a lethal bowling action, despite his polio-affected right arm.
1951 – Pankaj Udhas, singer.
RIP….
2009 – Prakash Mehra, film director, and producer known for his blockbuster Hindi films. He was one of the pioneers of masala films. He produced many box office blockbusters and classics, due to which Mehra was considered among the ‘Golden Directors’ of his time.
2014 – C. P. Krishnan Nair, businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts.
You may have known….
An estimated one million dogs in the US have been named the primary beneficiary of their owners will.
{Compiled by lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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