Today’s Motto: ‘Physical pain is temporary. Pain of quitting lasts forever’
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, 27 Jan….
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888 – National Geographic Society was established.
1921- In his address ‘ Geometry and Expansion ‘ Albert Einstein, applying certain results of the relativity theory, suggested the possibility of measuring the universe. It startled the audience.
1926 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a true televisio
n system in London. (The BBC started the first public broadcasts in London in 1936. Regular television broadcasts began in the United States in 1939).
1944 – After 872 days of the siege of Leningrad by German forces under Hitler, allowing no food or medical supplies to enter which caused the death of hundreds of thousands of German/Russian lives, The Siege was finally broken.
1948 – 1st tape recorder sold.
1970 – Jame
s M. Schlatter received a patent for “Peptide Sweetening Agents”, an invention which eventually led to the marketing of aspartame under the name NutraSweet.
1973 – The Vietnam war formally ended when ministers from the United States, N
orth and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong signed an agreement in Paris.
1987 – P. T. Usha nominated the Asian Athlete of 1986 by the US Sports Academy.
2017 – Donald Trump issues executive order banning travel to the US for 7 mostly Muslim countries and suspending admission for refugees.
2024 – World’s largest cruise ship Icon of the Seas, able to house 7,600 passengers, sized 365 x 48.5 
meters, about 5 times larger than the Titanic, sets sail from Miami on its maiden voyage. It can carry about 250 ton load and is operated by Royal Carribean International.
Born….
1922 – Ajit (Hamid Ali Khan), veteran Bollywood actor, born in Golconda, Hyderabad, played mostly villain and police or military roles in about 200 popular films like Nastik, Baradari, Naya Daur, Kallicharan, Zanjeer, Yadon Ki Baraat, Tower House, Shikari, Mr. Natwarlal, Mughl-e-Azam, Ram Balram, Desh Pardesh etc. He was nominated for Filmfare once and won several other prizes.
1926 – General Arunkumar Vaidya, PVSM, MVC & Bar, AVSM, ADC. was the 12th Army Chief of India between August 01, 1983- Jan. 31, 1986. He commqanded the Army in Blue Star operation, was assassinated by millitants after retirement on August 10, 1986.
1967 – Bobby Deol, younger son of veteran and legendary actor Dharmendra. He has acted in about 55 films like Dharam Veer, Barsaat, Mere Apne, Yamla Pagla Deevana, Ghayal, Bichchoo, Slodier, Ashram, Class of ’83, Animal etc. He has won 3 Filmfare, one IIFA, Zee cine awards each.
1969 – Vikram Bhatt, Bollywood Screenwriter, producer/director and son of ve
teran cinematographer Pravin Bhatt. He directed and produced Ghulaam, horror film series Raaz 1-3, Creature 3D, 1920-Evil Returns, Bloody Ishq etc. He was nominated for Filmfare awards and won a StarDust and many other film awards (pic credit-IMDb).
RIP…. 
1972 – Vinayak Sitaram Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer from Indore. He contributed largely to the formation of Indian Constitution in the Constituent Assembly. He wrote several books on Sanatan and Hindu subjects, spme philonthropic organisations and acted as RSS Sarsanghchalak in 1940. He was honored with Padma Bhushan in 1966.
You may have known….
The excessive and illogical diversion of food crop land to cash crops use by the government and 
agricultural scholars in the US, Africa and Asia, led to massive Famines over the 1850-1905 periods. Dependence on rains for irrigation of food crops was another important reason for Famines in the world.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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