Today’s Motto: ‘Sentiment without action is the ruin of the Soul’
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, Dec. 27…….
1845 – Ether anaesthetic was first used in childbirth by Dr. Crawford W. Long in Jefferson of US. He gave it to his wife, and she successfully gave birth to a baby girl (pic credit-Wikipedia).
1911 – Jana Gana Mana…., ‘India’s National Anthem, was first sung at the Indian National Congress session held at Calcutta (Anthem track Credit-Music India Entertainment).
1962 – India and Pakistan begin negotiations over Kashmir.
1975 – Explosion at Chasnala. Colliery in Dhanbad collapses drowning 350.
1977 – The Congress party splits into two factions, one supporting and one opposing Indira Gandhi.
1979 – Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown.
1992 – The Central government decides to acquire the disputed area in Ayodhya.
2007 – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber.
2012 – In his first political speech, marking the five-year anniversary of his mother’s death, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, vows to maintain democracy and fight militancy.(photo credit-Pinterest)
2013 – An error on the Delta Air Lines website allows thousands of customers to buy tickets for super-low fares, some 90% below regular ticket prices; Delta takes responsibility for the error, and will honour ticket purchases as well as frequent flier miles earned on the reduced-fare flights.
Born….
1796 – Mirza Ghalib, great urdu poet and writer. Was born at Agra. After the British re-took Delhi in 1857, a pained Mirza had written, “We smashed the wine cup and the flask What is it now to us? If all the rain that falls from heaven Should turn to rose-red wine?”
1822 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist who became a founder of microbiology. Apart from what came to be known as pasteurisation, he created and tested vaccines for diphtheria, cholera, yellow fever, plague, rabies, anthrax, and tuberculosis.
1942 – 1971 war hero Lance Naik Albert Ekka. Was awarded the highest gallantry award, PVC (photo credit-Honour point.
1965 – Salman Khan, actor. who acted in severtal Jubilee making films like Maine Pyar Kiya, Bhai Jann, Kisi ka Bhai, Kisi ka Beta, Dabang , Radhe, Antim etc.(photo credit-Pinkvilla)
RIP….
1976 – Yashpal, legendary modern Hindi litterateur who wrote many novel like Jhutha Sach, Meri Teri Baat,, Pinjre ki Udaan, Sach Bolne ki Bhool etc. and film (photo credit-Facebook).
You may have known….
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in
first class.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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