Today’s Motto: ‘Most people fail in life because they major in minor things’
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!
On this day, Dec. 28…….
1828 – 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed.
1849 – Discovery of dry-cleaning. It is said that dry-cleaning was accidentally discovered when M. Jolly-Bellin, a tailor, upset a lamp containing turpentine oil on his tablecloth and noticed it had a cleaning effect.
1869 – William Finley Semple of Mo
unt Vernon, Ohio, was issued the first U.S. patent for chewing gum, made of “the combination of rubber with other articles adapted to the formation of an acceptable chewing gum”.
1886 – The first U.S. patent for a commercially successful dishwasher was issued to Josephine Garis Cochrane.
1895 – The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière presented their motion-picture films in their first public performance, at the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris.
1896 – In the Indian National Congress, Vande Mataram was first sung in Calcutta.
1981 – The first American “test tube” baby conceived through in vitro fertilization was born
1926 – Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service.
1931 – The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence.
2012 – At 115 years old and 266 days, Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world’s oldest living person when he surpassed the age of Danish-American Christian Mortensen. (Kimura died on 12 June 2013. As on date, the oldest known living person is Kane Tanaka of Japan, who celebrates her 119th Birthday. The oldest known living man was Saturnino de la Fuente García, of Spain, aged 112 years, 318 days. The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men (Photo credit -The Guardian).
2015 – Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII “comfort women”, Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen 
compensation.
Born….
1932 – Dhirubhai Ambani, businessman.
1937 – Ratan Tata, legendary top industrialist.
1940 – AK Antony, Kerala politician., Congressman, former Defence minister.
1952 – Late Arun Jaitley, prominent lawyer, BJP Politician; and former, Minister of Finance.
RIP….
1923 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer who specialised in metal structures, known especially for the Eiffel Tower in Paris (pic credit- Wikipedia).
1972 – C. Rajagopalachari, the only Indian Governor General.
1977 – Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and litterateur who wrote Chidambara, Veena Pallav, Gunjan, Gramya, Yugant, Yugvani, Lopkayatan, Kala aur Boodha Chand etc. (photo credit-Kavishala.in).
You may have known….
Flamingos are naturally white – their diet of brine shrimp and algae turns them pink.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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