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Today’s Motto: ‘No point hating yourself for everything you aren’t. Start loving yourself for everything you are’

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!

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

On this day, Aug.27……..
413 – A lunar eclipse caused panic among the sailors of the Athens fleet and thus affected the outcome of a battle in the Peloponnesian

(Photo credit NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)

War.

1604 – Guru Granth Sahib was established in the Golden Temple of Amritsar.

1783 – 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude.
1859 – “Colonel” Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States, near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The drilling had reached 69 feet 6 inches, when a dark film floating on the water below the derrick floor was noticed.

1939 -Sir Frank Whittle and Hans J.P. von Ohain invented a craft that became the first jet-powered airplane to fly. It remained airborne for seven minutes.

1950 – The BBC transmitted in Britain the first cross-Channel live television programme by microwave relay links celebrated the centenary of the first cross-Channel telegraph by submarine cable.

1979 – Admiral of the Fleet Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, and three companions, two of them children, killed by the IRA when his boat was blown up.
1990 – The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Indian Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections.

1992 – The President of India issues two ordinances making it mandatory for new medical and dental colleges to obtain prior approval of the Medical and Dental Councils of India before their establishment.

2018 – UN releases report saying Myanmar military leaders should face genocide and crimes against humanity charges for violence against Rohingya.

Born….

1908 – Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs).

1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru.

1980 – Neha Dhupia, Bollywood and TV actor (image credit- Gethu Cinema).

RIP….

1976 – Mukesh, Bollywood playback singer.

2006 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, famous Bengal and Bollwood film director, who gave memorable films like Anupama, Anand, Namak Haram, Baawerchi, Gol Maal, Chupke-Chupke .

You may have known….

Most people forget 90% of their dreams.

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