Today’s Motto: ‘Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there’
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, 04 Aug ….
1914 – World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany. India, under British rule then, was pulled into the war. Over 1.3 million Indian soldiers were sent to fight for Britain.
1921 – A facsimile was transmitted by radio across the Atlantic Ocean using the Belinograph invented by French photographer and physicist Eduard Belin. (The Pantelegraph was invented by the Italian physicist
Giovanni Caselli. He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon in 1865, some 11 years before the invention of the telephone).
1922 – Every telephone in North America was silent for one minute at sunset marking the time for f
uneral services were taking place for Alexander Graham Bell.
1944 – Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose established Indian National Army in Rangoon.
1944 – Anne Frank and her family were arrested by the Nazis.
1947 – Mahatma Gandhi made his first and only visit to Kashmir.
1956 – Apsara, India’s first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first
in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay. Now called Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
1967 – World’s longest and highest Dam ‘Nagarjun Sagar’ made by Masonary System was inaugrated. (It was built across the Krishna river at Nagarjuna Sagar. The dam, 490 feet tall and 0.99 miles long and has created a water reservoir whose gross storage capacity is 
11,472,000,000 cubic metres).
1997 – Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna ‘posthumously’ on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose “should be treated as cancelled”, as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his 
family members.
1997 – Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in 
Test Cricket (Colombo). A 6′-4″ tall all-ronder Kulkarni took over 300 First Class wickets for Mumbai, but played only 3 Tests and 10 ODIs.
2013 – The first ceremonial test train ran through the Marmaray rail tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait, the world’s first sea tunnel connecting two continents, linking Kazliçesme, Turkey in Europe and Ayrılıkçesme in Asia. (The submerged part of the tunnel is 1.4-km long running 50-m below the seabed).
Born…. 1906 – Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, called the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and a very energetic Chief Minister. He led the Hill State Peoples’ Conference in 1941 which later helped formation of Himachal as a separate state from Punjab in 1948. It was given full Statehood in 1971. He was the Himachal CM for 17 yea
rs until 1977.
1928 – Udham Singh, Sansarpur, Jalandhar born hockey player who played in 4 Olympic Games from Helsinki 1952 till Tokyo Olympics in 1964. India won 2 of the Gold medals in these Games where he captained and scored 14 goals. He was honoured with Arjuna Award in 1965.
1929 – Kishore Kumar Ganguly, a legendary Indian playback singer known for Youdelling , musician and happy go lucky comic actor, regarded as one of the 
greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of modern Indian music. He sang over 2600 songs/Bhajans/Ghazals in Hindi, Bengali, Odiya, Assamese, Marathi, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Gujarati languages. He acted in Naukari, Musafir, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Fantoosh, Padosan, and sang for films like Munimji (1954), Taxi Driver, Nau Do Gyarah, Paying Guest, Guide, Jewel Thief, Aaradhana, Safar, Amanush, Prem Pujari, Prem Pujari, Tere Mere Sapne, Teen Devian, Kora Kagaz, Andaaz, Hare Rama Hare Krishna etc. He won 8 Filmfare awards, several BFJA, Lata Mangeshkar Award and Madhya Pradesh Go
vt. has started Kishore Kumar award to reward the young musicians.
RIP…. 1993 – Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, master in study of Bhagwadgita. Born as Balakshina Menon in Ernakulam Kerala, he established his Ashrams, Yogashalas, schools, colleges, hospitals worldwide. Swami Chinmaya Mission imparts spiritual training and practice of Sanatan culture. He also wrote an Encyclopedia of Sanatan Dharma and Indian culture extending many centuries.
You may have known…. Religion-wise sex ratio in India is (females per 1000 males): Hindus- 939, Muslims- 951, 
Christians – 1,023, Sikhs – 903.
{Complied by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}