Motto for Today: ‘The scariest moment is always just before you start.’

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

On this day, Jan.05………

1671 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj captured the ‘Salher’ fort from Mughals.

1889 – The word hamburger first appeared in print in the Walla Walla Union, according to the date given in the Oxford English Dictionary. (The name comes from a German food called hamburg steak, meaning “from Hamburg,” not because it contains ham).

1968 – Government of India accepts the administrative reforms commission’s recommendation to appoint a Lok Pal.

1972 – The Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science was inaugurated in New Delhi.

1988 – India’s first indigenously built ‘Braille’ script released short hand machine for the blind.

2000 – The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced the final stage of the worldwide initiative to eradicate Polio.

2014 – The cryogenic engine built by India’s Space Research Organisation engineers powers the launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5). It successfully placed a 1,982-kg GSAT-14 communications satellite into orbit in 17 minutes.

2015 – The tomb of an Egyptian queen, Khentakawess III, is discovered by a team of Czech archaeologists; the queen lived during the Fifth Dynasty and was likely the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre.

2016 – Pranav Dhanawade became the first person to score more than 1,000 runs in one innings in an officially recognized match. He scored 1,009 not out, from 327 balls, for K. C. Gandhi High School of the Kalyan administrative district.[2] Dhanawade broke the 116-year-old record of 628 not out, set by the English schoolboy A. E. J. Collins in 1899.

2019 – Chinese government report predicts China’s population will peak at 1.44 billion in 2029 before declining.

Born….

1592 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.

1855 – King C. Gillette, he was an American inventor and manufacturer who invented and manufactured the safety razor with disposable blades.

1893 – Paramahansa Yogananda, universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur.

1931 – Nirupa Roy, actress.

1934 – Murli Manohar Joshi, politician.

1941 – Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi Jr., Indian batsman & youngest Indian Test Captain).

1972 – Manish Sisodia, politician.

1986 – Deepika Padukone, actor.

RIP….

1952 – Nawab of Pataudi Sr, cricketer (played polo; 3 Tests for England 3 for India).

1982 – C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous music director.

1994 – RD Burman, music director.

You may have known….

The digital camera was invented by a Kodak employee in 1975 but it was not sold then for fear it would reduce sales of films.

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