Today’s Motto: ‘If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough’

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

On this day, 13 Mar….

1877 – The first U.S. patent for earmuffs was issued to teen-aged Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine (pic credit-www.backthenhistyory.com).

1935 – Driving tests introduced in Great Britain.

2003 – The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.

2012 – Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia.

2018 – National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr.

2019 – US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type’s second crash in Ethiopia.

Born…. 1952 – Vijay Telang. Indian opener batsman and captain  for a few matches,  also coached  Vidarbha Cricket Association players (pic credit-Getty Images). 

1961 -Derek O’Brien. Indian politician,  leader of Trinamool Congress in Rajya Sabha, Former Indian TV Quiz Master, former journalist and author.  Also addressed UN General Assembly in 2012.

1982 – Nimrat Kaur, American Indian model, Bollywood actor. She played a popular role in American TV serial Homeland and sang a song Tera Mera Pyaar. She’s rumoured to be dating Abhishek Bachchan while playing a role opposite the junior Bachchan in film Dasvi. She later refuted the rumours (pic credit-12thblog.com)

1984 – Geeta Basra, former model, British cinema  and Bollywood actor. Acted in Mr. Joe B Carvelho, The Train:Some Lines Should Never be Crossed, Dil Diya Hai, Lock etc.  She married Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh in 2015.

RIP…. 1800 – Nana Phadanvis (Balaji Janardan Bhanu), veteran leader of Peshwa Kingdom.

1842 – English soldier and inventor of the Shrapnel shell, a spherical case designed to explode in midair, spreading its content of small lead musket balls to injure enemy soldiers over a wide area.

1940 – Michael O’ Dwyer, former Governor of Punjab sduring 1913-1919, who’s deputy  Col. Dyer  ordered his  soldiers to fire on  thousands of Indian  peaceful protesters in Jalianwala Bagh, Amritsar on  April 13, 1919.  More than 400  people were dead in firing and hundreds  injured. He was shot dead  by Udham Singh  on March 13, 1940,  in Caxton Hall at point-blank range in full view of a large gathering in London.

You may have known….India is the world’s largest producer of milk, producing around 213.8 million tonnes annually. The production increased by 51% between 2014 and 2021.  White Revolution movement was started by  Tribhuvandas  Kishibhai Patel and  Dr. Verghese Kurien in Anand, Gujarat under the banner  Gujraat Co-oprative Milk Marketing Federation during  1946-49 and  established the legendary  brand name Amul  which now has a  revenue of Rs. 55,055 crores in 2023.

                                                                                                                                     {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}