Motto for Today: ‘When it rains look for rainbows; when it’s dark look for stars.’
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.18………
1919 – Rowlatt Act, intended to perpetuate the extraordinary powers enjoyed by the Government under Lord Chelmsford during the war, provokes countrywide protests. This Rowlatt Act was forced instead of 1915 Indian Security Act which reduced freedom of Indian people.
1922 – British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience.
1931 – 1st electric shavers go on sale in U.S. from Schick.
1944 – Azad Hind Fauj entered India (Japanese army) from the border of Burma and invaded north eastern India.
1965 – Aleksey Leonov became the first man to climb out of a spacecraft in space.
1967 – The biggest oil spill ever, at that time, affected Great Britain and France when the supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground on Pollard’s Rock between Land’s End and the Isles of Scilly. By evening there was an eight-mile oil slick leaking from it. Attempts to refloat the ship failed. With no prior incident of such a huge disaster to guide clean-up efforts, bombs and napalm were tried to cause the oil to burn, then detergents which emulsified the oil, but were themselves highly toxic to all marine and shore life. Eventually, all 120,000 tons of crude oil being shipped from Kuwait were released as the ship broke apart. Damage to ecosystems lasted decades.
1998 – A.B. Vajpayee, the Prime Minister-designate, releases the ‘national agenda for governance’ in New Delhi. It was silent on the Ram temple issue, scrapping of Article 370 and a uniform civil code.
2014 – In the U.S., today’s Mega Millions multistate lottery drawing has two winning tickets; the $400 million jackpot is the third largest in the game’s history.
Born….
1858 – Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, a German engineer who invented the internal-combustion engine that bears his name.
1879 – Cluny MacPherson, Canadian doctor and inventor of the gas mask.
1938 – Shashi Kapoor (Balbir Raj Kapoor), film producer, director, actor and dramatist.
1946 – Navin Nischol, actor.
1948 – Eknath Solkar, cricketer, India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder.
1963 – Ratna Pathak, actor.
You may have known….
Butterflies not only feed on nectar but also feed on rotting fruit, feces and decaying corpses.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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