Today’s Motto: ‘Never aiming to be number 2, should be the rule number 1’
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, May 17………
1620 – 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey).
1839 – A water wheel was patented by Lorenzo Adkins.
1498 – Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. (17 or 20 May?).
1890 – Comic Cuts, the first British weekly comic paper, was published in London by Alfred Northcliffe.
1949 – India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1957 – Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an 
end to nuclear tests.
1993 – Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relations.
2014 – Bhartiya Janta Party , wins a landslide election victory in Indian Lok Sabha. Narendra Damodarbai Modi was projected as leader and PM candidate by BJP.
2021 – Long working hours killed 745,000 people a year, in 2016, in the first study of its kind by the World Health Organization.
2023 – Nepali Sherpa Kami Rita Sherpa (53) climbs of Mt. Everest for a record 27th time.
Born….
1945 – Bhagwat S. Chandrasekhar, cricketer and leg spinner, is considered as one of the best bowlers in the world. He had a lethal bowling action, despite his polio-affected right arm. Was conferred Padamshri, listed in Wisdon Cricker of the Year and CK Nayudu award (pic credit-News18).
1951 – Pankaj Udhas, legendary Bhajan, ghazal and playback singer. Was awarded Padamshri in 2006. (pic credit-Seniors Today and Ishtar Music).
RIP….
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009 – Prakash Mehra, film director, and producer known for his blockbuster Hindi films like Zanzeer, Sharabi, Namk Halal, Bal Brahachari, Hasina Maan Jayegi etc. . He was one of the pioneers of masala films. He produced many box office blockbusters and classics, due to which Mehra was considered among the ‘Golden Directors’ of his time. Won Filmfare awards and nominations (pic credit-Wikipedia).
2014 – C. P. Krishnan Nair, businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and 
Resorts (pic credit-Mid Day).
Titbits….1980 – VS. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
You may have known….
An estimated one million dogs in the US have been named the primary beneficiary of their owners will.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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