Today’s Motto: ‘Don’t merely live your fears, live your dreams’
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 the History Books!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 28 May….
1937 – Volkswagen (Peoples’ Car), the German automobile manufacturing is founded. Ger
man Chancellor Adolf Hitler was very much facinated by the Volkswagen Beetle car design. So he visited the formal opening of the car factory on May 26, 1938.
1996 – 13-day-old BJP-led minority coalition govt. headed by A.B. Vajpayee quits at the end of a two-day debate on a motion of confidence. A left-wing coalition takes over headed by new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader.
1998 – Pakistan made its first public underground nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-I, exploding five nuclear devices, becoming the seventh nuclear power. This came after years of development led by Abdul Kadeer Khan. United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. (Shortly after the Indo-Pakistan War in 1971, following its defeat and break-up, Pakistan began a nuclear weapons program, and had its own clandestine facility for uranium enrichment from the mid 1980s).
2010 – In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
Born….
1883 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, an Indian independence activist and politician who formulated the Hindu nationalist philosophy of Hindutva. He was a leading personality in the Hindu Mahasabha. Savarkar joined the Hindu Mahasabha and popularized the term Hindutva, previously coined by Chandranath Basu, to create a collective “Hindu” identity as an essence of Bharat (India). Savarkar was an atheist and also a pragmatic practitioner of Hindu philosophy (pic credit-pinterest.com).
1903 – Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar, a businessman who was instrumental in the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group. He was the son of Laxmanrao Kirloskar, who established the Kirloskar Group and the township of Kirloskarwadi.
1915 – Gopala Ramanujam, co-founder of the Indian National Trade Union Congress.
1923 – Nandamuri Tarak Ramarao, Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao often referred to by his initials NTR, was an actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor, philanthropist, and politician who served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh over four terms for seven years.
RIP….
1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor.
1964 – Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan, pioneer producer-director of Indian cinema, best known for directing the social epic Mother India (1957).
You may have known….
The world’s biggest family lives in India. One man, 39 wives and 94 children.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
