Motto for Today: ‘The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.’

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

On this day, Sept. 28……..

1785 – Napoleon Bonaparte age16 graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51).

1865 – Elizabeth Anderson became the first female licensed physician in Britain.

1889 – The third legal definition of the metre was adopted at the Paris General Conference. The metre was defined as the distance measured between two lines on the bar at the temperature of freezing water, 0 °C.

1959 – Explorer VI satellite (launched 7 Aug 1959) revealed an intense radiation belt around Earth and took the first remote imaging TV pictures of Earth meteorological conditions.

1985 – The first Indian Army expedition, sailing around the world in a small 37 feet fibre glass yacht named “Trishna”, sailed off from Bombay. (The yacht belonging to the Corps of Engineers embarked on circumnavigation of the globe from 1985 to 1987. This was the first such achievement by an Indian crew).

2008 – SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

2015 – NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water on Mars.

Born….

551 BC – Confucius, Chinese philosopher and founder of Confucianism.

1838 – Sai Baba of Shirdi.

1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter.

1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, playback singer.

1982 – Abhinav Bindra, shooter.

1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, actor.

1985 – Mouni Roy, actor.

RIP….

1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist who became a founder of microbiology. He created and tested vaccines for diphtheria, cholera, yellow fever, plague, rabies, anthrax, and tuberculosis.

1956 – William Edward Boeing, was an American aviation pioneer who began a lumber business in 1902. His interests shifted to aviation, he trained at Glenn L. Martin’s flying school in 1915, and bought his own aircraft. In 1916, Boeing co-founded Pacific Aero Products Company (soon renamed Boeing Airplane Company).

Titbits….

1984 – 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India vs. Australia, New Delhi).

You may have known….

Ghaziabad, Surat and Faridabad make it to the list of fastest growing cities in the world during 2006-2020.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

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