Today’s Motto: ‘Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars’
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, 17 Aug ….
1835 – The wrench was patented by Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts.
1891 – The automobile electric self-starter was patented.
1896 – The first pedestrian killed by a motor vehicle in Britain was Mrs 
Bridget Driscoll.
1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1970 – The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi.
1998 – The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive 
and sterilization agent.
1998 – US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an “improper physical relationship” with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1998 – Indian National Human Rights Commission recommends compulsory registration of marriages in a bid to check child marriages.
Born…. 1932 – V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad (West Indies) born PIO and British novelist, fiction writer who highlighted the plight of citizens in developing countries. He wrote A House of Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, Middle Passage, In A Free State, An Enigma of Arrival etc.He was awarded Knighthood by the British and Nobel Prize in 2001.
1934 – Murasoli Maran, Tamil Nadu politician, film producer, nephew of DMK founder M Karunanidhi. He was Minister in UPA Govt. and MP for 3 terms.
1937 – Bhim Singh. Jammu & Kashmir Panthers Party founder and prominent, lawyer, politician. He also co-founded Justice PN Bhagwati Legal Aid Committee in 
1982.
1943 – Robert De Niro, famous American actor, director and producer. He acted in The Godfather Part II, Taxi driver, Raging Bull, Meet The Parents etc. and won 2 Academy awards. His net worth is $ 500 million. 1960 – Sean Penn, a famous American actor, director known for Milk, 21 Gram, Dog Town and Z
-Boys, Mystic River and Dead Man Walking. He won 2 Academy awards.
2004 – Brooklyn Frost is an African-American Instagram star having 1 million followers and 
1.1 million on YouTube.
RIP….1909 – Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, who was studying University College London and joined Freddom Fighter. He assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, the political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India, in London oin 1909. He was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka.
You may have known…. The UN estimates that over 50% of India’s population is below 25 years.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
