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As Every 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!
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On this day, 08 Jan….
1838 – The first telegraph message in the U.S. in which letters were represented by dots and dashes was transmitted. The message was: A patient waiter is no loser. The communications system was invented by Alfred Vail of Morristown, N.J., in Sep 1837. A public demonstration was given at New York University using a circuit of ten miles on 24 Jan 1838.
1889 – 1st Computer patented by Charles Babbage (1822) was later built in 1991. Alan Turing invented computer science. The ENIAC (1945) was the first electronic general-purpose digital computer; it filled a room.
1894 – Black American inventor Fredrick J. Loudin was issued a U.S. patent for a “Key Fastener”
1927 – The first scheduled London-Delhi flight arrives after 63 hrs. (Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare was on board).
1965 – ‘Star of India’ returned to American Museum of Natural History. (The Star of India is a 563.35-cara
t – 112.67 gm – star sapphire, one of the largest such gems in the world. ). It was discovered in the 1890s in the alluvial deposits of Ceylon, part of India, which is now Sri Lanka.
1998 – Scientists announced the identification for the first time of a key brain chemical related to nicotine addiction, in the journal Nature.
2000 – The Government reconstitutes the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Trust and retains Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as a trustee along with Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prof. Yashpal and Dr. Abid Hussain.
2013 – U.S. scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded.
2024 – Pope Francis says surrogate motherhood should be banned calling it “despicable” for commercializing pregnancy.
Born…. 1908 – Mary Nadia Wadia (Fearless Nadia), Australia born India actor, stuntswoman. Acted in Hunterwali, Miss Frontier Mail, Circus Queen, Diamond Queen, Fearless Hunterwali etc. She won several awards and a Postal Stamp was released by Indian govt. in 2015 and a documentary released in her honor by her nephew Riyad Vinci Wadia in 1993.
1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, veteran India born British stage-actor, character actor who acted in about 150 films like The Man who Would Be King, Shatranj Ke Khiladi directed by
legendary Satyajit Ray, English Babu Desi Mem, Chasme Baddoor, Masoom etc. He was awarded Britidsh and Canadian honors for his stage and film roles.
1939 – Nanda (Karnataki), veteran Indian romantic heroine who debuted with film Mandir (1948) had a successful film carrier of over 30 years with films Ham Dono, Jab Jab Phool Khile, Gumnaam, Teen Deviyan, Joru ka Ghjulam, Dharti Kahe Pukar Ke, The Train, Shor, Raja Saheb and Naya Nasha etc. She was awarded Filmfare in 1970.
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957 – Nafisa Ali, Indian activist, actor and TMC politician of West Bengal. She also won a Beauty pageant Filmfare Miss India in 1976.
RIP…. 1941 – Swami Pranabananda Maharaj, father of Bharat Sevashr
am Sangha. One of the greatest Yogi of Bengal, a freedom fighter and regarded as Shiva avatar by most Bengalis, he founded BSS in 1917.
1984 – Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian woman pilot who flew Indian Airlines 
flight in 1956. She also worked with Air Survey of India.
1995 
– Madhu Limaye, veteran national leader, socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan.
You may have known….
Raja Todarmal (1523-1589), one of the Navratnas of Akbar’s darbar could be called the Father of Agricultural reforms in India. He started land holding measurement, revenue sy
stem Zamindari and as Diwane Ashraff (Finance minister), he initiated the land records, for separate residential and agricultural holdings and village staffs like Lambardar, Patewari, Tehsildar etc. More agricultiural taxation and changes were done by the British collector Thomas Monro who raised taxation (to 50% for drylands and 60% for irrigated farmlands ) in 1820. 
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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