Today’s Motto: ‘Doubts kill more dreams than failures’
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, Aug.28……..
1565 – Oldest city in the US, St. Augustine Florida, established.
1600 – Mughals capture Ahmednagar.
1830 – “Tom Thumb,” the first locomotive built in America, ran from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill.
1845 – The first issue of the Scientific American was published by Rufus Porter, who was by turns a portrait-painter, schoolmaster, inventor and editor. (Today, Scientific American publishes 18 foreign-language editions around the globe).
1883 – The first controlled flight in a glider was made by John J. Montgomery at Wheeler Hill, California. He sailed a distance of 603 feet at a height of about 15 feet.
1963 – The longest floating pontoon bridge in the world opened. The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, connecting Seattle and Bellevue is almost 1000-ft more than the second-longest bridge – Lacey V. Murrow Bridge.
1963 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous “I have a dream speech” addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
1972 – General Insurance Business in India was nationalised.
1973 – India and Pakistan sign POW accord paving the way for return of over 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war.
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled “A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places” (pic credit- Al Zazeera).
1997 – Indian Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
1998 – India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
2011 – Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
2019 – Discovery of 3.8-million-year-old skull of early human ancestor Australopithecus anamensis, found by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, at Miro Dora, Ethiopia, upends previous evolutionary theory published in journal “Nature”.
Born….
1896 – Firaq Gorakhpuri, lecturer and Urdu poet (pic credit -Sufinama).
1905 – Major Dhyan Chand, remembered as a Master of Hockey.
1928 – Ustad Vilayat Khan, composer.
1966 – Priya Dutt, social worker and politician.
1975 – Ejaz Khan, actor.
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{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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