Today’s Motto: ‘Begin, be bold and venture out’
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!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On this day, 09 Sep ….
1892 – The New York City health department established the first diagnostic public heath laboratory in the U.S. as its Division of Pathology, Bacteriology and Disinfection.( It was spurred by the scare of Asiatic cholera at the time).
1934 – The first rocket to break the sound barrier was launched in America. It reached a top speed of 700 mph, a maximum height of 400-ft, 1,600-ft horizontal range.
1945 – The first “bug” in a computer program was discovered by Grace Hopper: a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay and taped into the log.
1997 – Designated court decides to frame charges against 49 persons, including Shiv Sena Supremo 
Bal Thackeray, BJP president L. K. Advani and former U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, in cases relating to Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
1999 – Mahesh Bhupathi and Ai Sugiyama won the mixed doubles title in the U.S. Open.
2000 – The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica stretched over a populated city for the f
irst time, after ballooning to a new record size. For two days, Sept. 9-10, the hole extended over the southern Chile city of Punta Arenas, exposing residents to very high levels of ultra violet radiation.
2015 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain’s longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.
2019 – Poet John Milton’s own copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623 survives with his annotations in a Philadelphia library and could be the world’s most important modern literary discovery.
2019 – Scientists reveal evidence of humans’ earliest milk consumption 6,000 years 
ago from the dental plaque of prehistoric farmers’ teeth in Britain.
2024 – World’s first whole-eye and face transplant is declared succes
sful for a 47-year-old Arkansas man more than a year after the operation.
Born…. 1850 – Bhartendu Harishchandra, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi. Born to Bengali family in Varanasi and to a poet father, the family moved to Jagannath Temple when he was aged 15, he was influenced by Bengal’s Renassance and started writing on social, religious issues. He edited magazines Kavi Cachan Sudha, Harishchandra Magazine and Bala Sudha and translated Ratnavali, Mudrarakshash, Merchant of Venice etc. His poetry collections were Bhakt Sarvagya, Prem Malika, Prem Madhuri, Prem Tarang, Bharat Durdasha, Chandravali, Raa Sangraha etc. Indian government launched an award in his name, as Bhartendu Harishchandra Puorskar in 1983.
1890 – Colonel Harland Sanders, American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
1967 – Akshay Kumar (Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia), Bollywood actor. started with film Saugandh in 1991 and went on to do over 150 films like Khiladi, Mohra, Dillagi, Jaanwar etc. He married Twinkle Khanna, daughter of legendary Rajesh Khanna and youth Diva Dimple Kaparia. He has won 2 National and 2 Fimfare awards apat from several other accolades.
1974 – Cap
t. Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army, posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra 
in the 1999 Kargil War. Palampur(H.P.)born braveheart was decorated for sacrifcng his life for attacking and killing Pakistani infiltrators from post Rocky Knob post 5140 and then saving his Unit RakRifles soldiers while capturing another peak Point 4875.
RIP…. 2012 – Verghese Kurien, known as the Father of the White Revolution in India. He was a social entrepreneur whose “billion-litre idea”, Operation Flood – the world’s largest agricultural dairy development programme, made India the world’s largest milk producer, surpassing 
the United States of America by 1998. He founded Kaira Milk Producers Cooperative Ltd. later named Amul. He was awarded Raman Magasaysay award, Padma Vibhushan, Order of Agricultural Merit (France) and many more accolades.
You may have known…. In April 2025, the government cited a World Bank report claiming 171 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty over a decade. Later on, the World Bank updated its poverty estimates, stating that only 5.75% of Indians now live in abject poverty, down from 27% in 2011–12. (Niti Ayog report 2024).
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan)
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