Today’s Motto: ‘If you keep doing the same thing again and again, it is unrealistic to expect better results’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History! 

(International Midwives’ Day :Recognizes the important work of midwives in delivering babies and care for mothers)

1809 – The first U.S. patent granted to a woman was issued to Mary Kies for “a new and useful improvement in weaving straw with silk or thread.

1824 – The skeleton of a mammoth creature (Zurassik) was found in England at Ilford, near Bow, in Essex. It was said to be of the same species as those which had previously been found in Siberia, and all over Europe. The discovery was made at the 16-ft depth of a large quarry of clay being excavated for making bricks. A large tusk, several of the largest leg bones, many ribs and vertebrae were found along with the smaller bones of the feet and tail (pic credit-Digital Spy).

1859 – 1st use of “insanity plea” to prove innocence.

1881 – Louis Pasteur tested inoculations against anthrax upon an ox, several cows and 25 sheep. His experiment proved successful, and was a milestone in the prevention of this fatal disease that affected cattle and sheep.

1930 – Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo between England and Australia, a distance of 11,000 miles (pic credit-PBS)

1933 – 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger.

1936 – A U.S. patent was issued for the first bottle with a screw cap and a pour lip to Edward A.

1944 – Top Congress leader  Mahatma (MK)  Gandhi freed from prison by the British.

1945 – The  WW II deaths of civilians on the mainland of the U.S. resulted from a Japanese bomb dropped over Gearhart Mountain, Oregon by an unmanned balloon. It was disturbed and exploded, killing those civilians who discovered it during a picnic. Sand in the bags of ballast carried by the balloon was scientifically identified. By microscopic study of the grains, the sand was known by its characteristics to have come from Japan.

1963 – The world’s first human liver transplant was performed in America by Dr. Thomas E. Starlz. His patient, a 48-year-old man, survived for 22 days. He had also performed the world’s first spleen transplant four months earlier in the same year (pic credit-www.5280.com).

1971 – India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 million Ban gladeshi refugees.

2012 – Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970.                                                                                                                                              2015 – Scientists announce the discovery of the oldest & most distant galaxy known to man, EGS-zs8-1.

Born…. 1479 – Guru Amar Das  was the 3rd of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at age 73 and remained  until  age 95.. He introduced a religious organization called the ‘manji system by appointing trained clergy, a system that expanded and survives into the contemporary era. He wrote and compiled hymns into a Pothi (book) that ultimately helped create the Adi Granth. Guru Amar Das remained the leader of the Sikhs till age 95 and named his son-in-law Bhai Jetha later remembered by the name Guru Ram Das as his successor .(pic credit-All About Sikhs).

1911 – Pritilata Waddedar, a Bengali revolutionary nationalist who was influential by  the Indian independence movement. She is known for leading fifteen revolutionaries in the 1932-armed attack on the Pahartali European Club, during which one person was killed and eleven injured. The revolutionaries torched the club and were later caught by the British police. To avoid arrest, Pritilata consumed cyanide and died.

1916 – Giani Zail Singh, born (as Jarnail Singh)  in  Sandhwan, in princely state of Faridkot-Punjab,  he  became the 7th President of India, from 1982-87.  He was also  the Chief Minister of Punjab  from March 1972 to April 1977 and Home Minister of India between 1980-82, before he became President of the country.                                                   An ardent fan of PM Nehru, he used to  tag a fresh  Red Rose to his Achkan  (overcoat)  everyday.

1930 – Col. Hoshiar Singh Dahiya PVC, and a recipient of India’s highest military honour, the Param Vir Chakra in 1971. He was from Granadiers Regiment and  fought in 1965 Indo-Pak War on  Rajasthan border and won gallantary  citation.

RIP….1989 – Naval Humosji Tata, famous industrialist and father of Rattan Tata former  chairman of Tata Group. Grandson of Jamshedji Tata, the founder of Tata  group, he was  worker friendly and  carried  many labour reforms. He was  member of International Labour Organisation (ILO)  at Geneva. (pic credit-zorostrian.net)

2006 – Naushad Ali, Ghazal and song composer and producer. He composed and directed music for epic films like  Ratan, Sharda, Mere Mehboob, Ganga Jamuna,  Baiju Bawra,  Mughl-e-Azam, TajbMahal etc.. He was awarded several awards including  Sangeet Natak Akademi award,  Padma Bhushan in 1981 and Babsaheb Phalke in 1992.  (pic credit-IMDb).

Titbits….1865 –  1st U.S. train robbery  occured in North Bend, Ohio  (USA).

2.  In Sept.  2019,  86 years old,  Betty Goedhart of Australia becomes  world’s oldest  Trapeze artist. She established a  Guinness World Record.  (pic credit-San Diago Union Tribune).           

3.  India has the world’s smallest prison population (at 1400).

You may have known…. Queen Elizabeth Tudor’s lifelong refusal to marry earned her the nickname “the Virgin Queen”  and the state of Virginia is named in her honour.                                                                                                                                                                                       {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}