Today’s Motto: ‘Be your own voice; not others’ echo’

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

On this day, Mar. 20…….

1739 – Iranian ruler Nadir Shah occupies Delhi and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

1815 – Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.

1916 – Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was published as an academic paper. This theory accounted for the slow rotation of the elliptical path of the planet Mercury, which Newtonian gravitational theory failed to do. Fame and recognition came suddenly in 1919, when the Royal Society of London photographed the solar eclipse and publicly verified Einstein’s general theory of relativity. In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his photoelectric law and work in the field of theoretical physics, but such was the controversy still aroused by this theories on relativity that these were not specified in the text of the award.

1934 – The first test of a practical radar apparatus was made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Harbour, Germany, Chief of the German Navy Signals Research Department.(pic credit-Dreamstime.com)

1954 – 60,000 Viet Minh with heavy artillery surround 16,000 French troops, but the French held out for a further 6 weeks before being overcome by the greater numbers and defeated.

1959 – For the first time, officials of the Indian government confirmed reports of widespread resistance to the Chinese occupying forces in Tibet. Open warfare erupted in the capital city of Lhasa.

1965 – R Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi. He’s the only cricketer to have played 50+ Tests and umpired in 50+  Tests. (pic credit-Facebook) 

1977 – Premier Indira Gandhi loses election .

1993 – Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai.

1997 – Maharashtra (like H.P.) proposes to make caring for aged parents mandatory.

1999 – Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain complete non-stop balloon circumnavigation around the world. (They had set off from Switzerland on March 1st 1999, travelling 45,755 kilometres lasting 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes and landing in Egypt on 20th March 1999).

2017 – Rivers Yamuna and the Ganges declared “living entities” by court in the State of Uttarakhand.

2019 – A woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease has helped researchers identify molecules on the skin of people with the disease in Manchester, England.

2019 – Finland is the world’s happiest country, South Sudan is world’s least happy, according to annual World Happiness Report.

Born….

1951 – Madan Lal, Indian medium pacer and batsman was part of 1983 World Cup winning team. (pic credit-Onmanorama).

1952 – Anand Armitraj, tennis player.

1966 – Alka Yagnik, Popular Bollywood singer who sang for Raaz, Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, Raja Hindustani, Tere Naam etc. Was awarded National Film Award, Filmfare, IIFA and Zee Cine etc. (photo credit-PxFuel)

1987 – Kangna Ranaut, firebrand Bollywood actor. Acted in Manikarnika (Rani Jhansi), Queen, Tejas, Chandramukhi, Dhakad etc. Awarded 4 National, 5 Filmfare one each Screen, Zee Cine, SIIMA and Producres Guild award.

RIP….

1351 – Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, Slave-sultan of Delhi.

1727 – Sir Isaac Newton. English physicist and mathematician.

1925 – Lord Curzon, served as Viceroy and Governor General of India during Bengal Famine. He was also responsible for Partition of Bengal into East and West Bengal in 1905.

1968 – Ghulam Mohammed, composer. He is most remembered for his work in musical-hit films like, Mirza Ghalib, Shama and Pakeezah. Awarded National Film award for Mirza Ghalib posthumously. (photo credit-Wikipedia).

2000 – Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.

Titbits….

1966 – The World Cup was stolen while on display at Westminster Hall in London. (It was found one week later in a South London garden wrapped in a newspaper).

1991 – Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records.

You may have known….

A silk worm eats food 86,000 times its weight in 56 days.                                          {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}