Today’s Motto: ‘If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform, make a mark and write a Page in the History Books!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On this day, 19 Mar….
1935 – British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23.
1944 – The Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the national flag in 1944 in Northeast
India.
1945 – Adolf Hitler issues “Nero Decree” to destroy all German factories.
1954 – The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.
1972 – India and Bangladesh sign friendship treaty.
1998 – BJP-led coalition government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the second time Prime Minister of India.
Born….
1938 – Sai Parānjpye, movie director and screenwriter. She directed award-winning movies Sparsh,
Katha, Chasme Buddoor, and Disha. In 2006, the Government of India honored her with Padma Bhushan.
1939 – Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959).
1984 – Tanushree Dutta,film actress.
RIP….
1982 – Acharya J. B. Kripalani, writer, nationalist, parliamentarian, founder of Kissan Mazdoor Dal and president of Indian National Congress in 1946.
1998 – Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad, a communist politician and theorist, who served as the first Chief Minister of Kerala state in 1957 – 59 and then again in 1967 – 69. As chief minister, EMS pioneered radical land and educational reforms in Kerala, which helped it become the country’s leader in social indicators.
You may have known….
The father of India’s missile programme had visited Switzerland back in 2006. Upon his arrival, Switzerland declared May 26th as Science Day.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
