Today’s Motto: ‘Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to popular opinion’
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, Jan. 02……..
1754 – Robert Clive again attacked and annexed Calcutta from Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah. (Calcutta was recaptured by Siraj-ud-Daulah in June 1756. Reportedly, they placed 146 British prisoners into a room measuring 18 by 15 feet, called the ‘Black Hole’, with only 23 surviving the night (photo credit-British Battles) .
1757 – After the Battle of Plassey, Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal.
1839 – French pioneering photographer Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the moon. Unfortunately it was lost when on 8 Mar 1839, a fire burned his laboratory, together with his records and early experiment materials.
1879 – 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG (photo credit-Austadiums)
1936 – The first electron tube to enable night vision was described, in St Louis, US.
1944 – 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).
1947 – Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengal.
1964 – Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan.
Tigers have been known to successfully imitate the call of other animals to lure their prey closer.
1994- Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.
2012 – While conducting military exercises in the Persian Gulf, Iran successfully test-fires two long-rang
e missiles.
2018 – WHO reveals it will classify gaming addiction as mental health condition in its next Classification of Diseases.
Born….
1932 – Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, famous Ragi and politician.
1940 – S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician.
1937 – Manohar Joshi, Maharashtra politician, former Maharashtra CM, Lok Sabha Speaker (photo credit-Wikipedia)
RIP :
1959 – Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83 (photo credit- SportsCafe.in)
1557 – Prontormo, the Italian painter, who made sculptures of Christ (photo credit-Nation Gallery)
2002 – Bib Osterwald, famous American actress who appeared in Broadway series apart from films (photo credit-Wikipedia)
You may have known….
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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