Today’s Motto: ‘Knowing is not enough; we must apply’
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!
1776 – The first U.S. submarine built for wartime use, the Turtle. It just large enough for one occupant, had two-bladed wooden propeller giving up to3 knots speed.
1822 – A treadmill was completed to grind corn at the New York City Prison employing the labour of 8 to 16 prisoners at a time walking on what looked like a very wide, 5-ft dia paddle wheel.
1888 – A baby incubator was first used in the U.S. to care for an infant at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York.
1906 – Bank of India, the first Indian bank, was registered (Founders pics).
1948 – The first rubberised asphalt road surface in the U.S. was applied to 6,217-ft of Exchange Street in Akron, Ohio, a city that was home to a large rubber industry.
1965 – China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
1965 – U.S. suspends military aid to India and Pakistan.
1993 – India and China sign border peace accord.
1997 – Banned Maoist Communist Centre guns down at least 30 CPI (M) liberation activists at Ankendar village, 40 km from the district headquarters of Chatra in Bihar.
1999 – India rejects Pakistan demand for a East Timor type of referendum in Kashmir.
2012 – Investments to and from Pakistan began to be permitted by the Reserve Bank of India.
2013 – Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans to develop a new ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ (part of Belt and Road Initiative) during visit to Kazakhstan.
2019 – Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon’s surface.
2022 – Discovery of the earliest evidence of surgery from 31,000 year old skeleton with amputated lower leg in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo published in “Nature”.
Born….
5128 BC – श्री कृष्ण का जन्म भाद्रपद मास के कृष्ण पक्ष की अष्टमी के दिन होता है , लगभग 3112 वर्ष ईशा पूर्व, द्वापर युग में रोहिणी नक्षत्र में हुआ था | इसे श्री कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी भी कहते हैं और उनके भक्त मंदिरों में उनके आगमन का उत्सव मनाते हैं |
1977 – Sachin Pilot, Rajasthan politician.
1983 – Jwala Gutta, veteran badminton player, winner of several National and International tournaments.
You may have known….
Clocks run clockwise because that is the direction dials move in the northern hemisphere.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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