Motto for Today: ‘You are not a product of circumstances, but a product of your decisions.’

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

On this day, May.09…….

1753 – Maharaja Surajmal attacks Delhi.

1865 – A U.S. patent was issued to Richard Jordan Gatling for the Gatling gun, invented in 1861. It was the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate, and ease of loading into a single device.

1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, travelling two routes.

1882 – A stethoscope of the now classic design, invented by William F. Ford was issued a U.S. patent. (Credits-Optimum Physics)

1893 – The first motion picture exhibition was given by Thomas Alva Edison in New York.

1899 – Lawnmower patented.

1926 – A rotor ship first replaced the sails.

1926 – The first flight over the North Pole was made by Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett. (Credits-Conde Nast Traveler)

1936 – The Hindenburg Zeppelin arrived at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, from Germany marking the beginning of regular transatlantic passenger service. The flight, carrying 51 passengers and 56 crew, took 61-hr 38-min.

1949 – Britain’s first launderette opened in Queensway, London.

1960 – The birth control pill was approved as safe by U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

1962 – A laser beam was bounced off the moon from earth by MIT scientists. The area of the light beam on the surface was estimated at a diameter of 4 miles.

1995 – Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine in Kashmir. More than 1,000 houses burnt.

2012 – India puts an end to a plan to re-introduce cheetahs to the country with shipments from Africa.

2018 – India’s Supreme Court criticizes the country’s archaeological conservation body for failing to protect the Taj Mahal from discoloration and green slime.

2019- Archaeologists hail Anglo-Saxon tomb found 2003 in Prittlewell, England, as Britain’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb as full report of its con

tents published.

Born….

1540 – Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary Rajput warrior.

1866 – Gopal Krishan Gokhale. He was one of the social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement. He also founded the Servants of India Society.

1954 – Mallika Sarabhai, social activist.

RIP….

1998 – Talat Mahmood, singer and film actor. (His lilting number जायें तो जायें कहाँ picturized on Dev Anand on a sea beach, in the black & white movie ‘Taxi Driver’ remains immortal).

Titbits….

Mahatma Gandhi who had paid his only visit to Kashmir when visited from 1 to 4 Aug 1947, admired the masses for maintaining exemplary Hindu-Muslim unity at a time when there were dark clouds of strife and observed that he saw “a ray of hope” in Kashmir despite communal frenzy elsewhere on the sub-continent.
Let us keep that hope alive !

You may have known….

According to US National Human Genome Research Institute, identical twins are an example of cloning due to their identical DNA.

 

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