Today’s Motto: ‘Many failures are of people who did not realise……..

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

On this day, 10 Sep ….

1869 – Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan. (Though the origins of the rickshaw are not entirely clear, they seem to be Japanese, and of Tokyo specifically).

1896 – The first successful surgery on heart muscle was performed by Ludwig Rehn in Frankfurt , Germany, who sutured a myocardial laceration of a 22-yr-old man stabbed in a drunken brawl.

1964 – Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms.

1966 – Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill for the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states.

1977 – The Planning Commission decides to introduce the Rolling Plan concept.

1984 – DNA fingerprinting was discovered in Leicester, England, by Alec Jeffreys as X-ray films of his tests first revealed the possibility. As he studied the image, at first what he saw seemed just a complicated mess. Then he realised this could be DNA-based biological identification since every person has a unique DNA profile.

1999 – Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles.

Born…. 1872 – Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji “Ranji”, Maharaj Jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer. He was referred as “The prince of a little state, but the king of a great game”.

1887 – Govind Ballabh Pant. He was as outstanding parliamentary figure of his days. Was awarded with Bharat Ratna in 1959.

1923 – Ram Jethamalani, prominent lawyer and BJP politician.

1972 – Anurag Kashyap, screenwriter, director/producer.

RIP….1915 – Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.

1920 – Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary.

You may have known…. Under various articles of the Indian Constitution, free and compulsory education is provided as a fundamental right to children between the ages of 6 and 14. There are about 10,72,386 Govt. schools in India as  in  Dec. 2024.  And  317,756 Privately run  schools  across the country.                                                                                                  

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