Today’s Motto: ‘Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people’
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, 26 Dec….
1704 – The Second Battle of Anandpur, where Wazir Khan and Zaberdast Khan, two of Aurangz
eb’s generals, buried the children of Guru Gobind Singh alive in a wall. The day is observed as Veer Bal Diwas.
1854 – Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited in Buffalo (US).
1865 – James H. Mason of Franklin was issued the first U.S. patent for a coffee percolator.
1906 – The world’s first full-length feature film, the 70-min Story of the Kelly Gang was presented in the Town Hall at Melbourne, Australia, where it had been filmed at a cost of £450 (pic ccredit-IMDb).
1925 – The Communist Party of India is founded.
1967 – A patent was issued for improvement of the Frisbee – an “aerodynamic toy to be thrown through the air – in throwing games.”
1975 – The Tupolev-144, the first passenger supersonic jet carried only mail and freight on its first commercial flight from Moscow to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. Although built to carry up to 140 passengers, it was at first limited to service carrying mail instead, because it was so loud. (Aeroflot ceased flying the dangerous and expensive Tupolev airplanes on 6 June 1978).
1978 – Former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail.
1985 – Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other’s country (pic credit-Pakistan Speaks).
1982 – The Man of the Year in Time magazine was a non-human for the first time. A compute
r received the honour as 1982’s “greatest influence for good or evil.”
1989 – India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean.
1989 – The Constitution 62nd Amendment Bill, seeking to extend reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for another ten years, approved in Indian Parliament.
2004 – 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and edges of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.
2012 – China opens the world’s longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou.
Born….
1914 – Baba Amte, (Murlidhar Devidas Amte) a social activist who led the campaign for eradication of Leprosy in India. He was honored with Maharshtra Bhushan and Gandhi Peace Award.
1921 – Nurul. S. Hasan, educationist and statesman. He was Union Education minister from 1971-77) and Governor of West Bangal and Orissa(1986-93).
RIP….
1530 Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty in the Indian Subcontinent.
1999 – Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India (1992-97).
Titbits….
1991 – Jack Ruby’s gun sells for $220,000 in auction. (On November 24, 1963, he fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald while the latter was in police custody after being charged with assassinating U.S. President John F. Kennedy two days earlier. A Dallas jury found him guilty of m
urdering Oswald, and awarded the death penalty. Later, Ruby appealed his conviction, had it overturned and was granted a new trial. However, on January 3, 1967, as the date for his new trial was being set, Ruby became ill in his prison cell and died).
You may have known….
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
(Compiled by Lt. Gen . (R) Raj Kadyan}
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