Today’s Motto: ‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends’

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

On this day, Aug.03……

1903 – Thomas Edison’s concern about X-Ray injury was front page news in the New York World newspaper. Under the headline “Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-rays” the history of injuries of his laboratory employee were described. Clarence Dally had an arm and hand amputated because of cancer caused by exposure to X-rays. Edison’s own experience was that viewing with his own X-ray fluoroscope harmed his own eyesight two years earlier.

1908 – A nearly complete, buried, skeleton of a Neanderthal was discovered in a cave at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France

1921 – 1st aerial cropdusting (to kill caterpillars).

1926 – The first traffic lights in Britain were installed at Piccadilly Circus.

1943 – Gen. Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice. (Patton’s hard-driving personality and lack of belief in the medical condition post-traumatic stress disorder, then known as “battle fatigue” or “shell shock”, led to the soldiers becoming the subject of his ire in incidents on 3 and 10 August, when Patton struck and berated them after discovering they were patients at evacuation hospitals away from the front lines without apparent physical injuries. As a result, Patton’s career was halted as former subordinates became his superiors).

1958 – The USS Nautilus became the first submarine to travel under the geographic North Pole when the ice-pack conditions were favourable.

1991 – About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India.

1994 – The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal.

2001 – US President George W. Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001.

2003 – Police in London used the Taser electric stun gun on a suspect for the first time in that country. It was part of a year-long trial commenced 21 Apr 2003 as an alternative to conventional guns.

2012 – United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria.

2022 – Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee certified as the world’s tallest timber building at 25 stories, 86.6 metres (284 feet).

Born….

1886 – Maithili Sharan Gupt, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker.

1916 – Shakeel Badayuni, Urdu poet and lyricist.

1957 – Mani Shankar, filmmaker.

You may have known….

Elephants carry their pregnancies for about two years.

 

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