Today’s Motto: ‘Getting knocked down is not unusual……….
.......... What matters is you get up one more time after you were knocked down'
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.08……..
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage – becomes first European to reach India by sea.
1856 – Charles E. Barnes patents a crank operated machine gun. It was ahead of its time, but similar to other machine guns invented later. Although it was invented before the outbreak of the war, there is no evidence
that it was used by either side.
1862 – Theodore R. Timby patented the revolving gun turret.
1881 – A patron came into Edward Berner’s drug store in Wisconsin, and sat down at the soda-fountain counter. Since it was the Sabbath, the customer couldn’t have the desirable, but scandalous, flavoured soda water. Berner compromised by putting ice cream in a dish and poured over it the chocolate syrup that was previously only served as flavouring in ice-cream sodas. That was an ice cream Sunday! The name became “sundae”, after the day on which Berner served it.
1954 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world’s longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab on July 08.
1996 – U.N. says India is leading in HIV infections.
1997 – 33 persons killed and 67 injured as blast rips through part of Ambala-bound train at Lehra Khana station in Bhatinda district, Punjab.
2022 – FBI conduct
a search of former US President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Largo, over his handling of classified government documents.
Born….1941- CK Prahalad, Indian American entrepreneur, author, speaker and motivator
1961 – Debashree Roy, Indian dancer, Bengali actor
1981 – Roger Federer, top Swishh Tennis player who won 4 Grand Slam titles in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007.
1998 – Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer and music orator.
You may have known….
Cats can’t taste sugar. They don’t have sweet taste buds.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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