Today’s Motto: ‘Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple’
You Win Your Battles with Your Answers, not with the Questions Asked from You!
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, 09 May….
1753 – Maharaja Surajmal, the Jat king of Bharatpur in Rajputana (including some areas of present Haryana and Awadh-U.P.) alongwith Safdar Jang, attacks Delhi king Alamgir-II and defeated his commanders S
adil Khan and Devidatta. Surajmal controlled Delhi (May 10) for about a fortnight, but had to defend his Bharatpur state against Maratha attackers and fight Mughals in Delhi. He was later killed by Rohilla-Afghans and Najib-ud Daula on Dec. 25, 1763.
1825 – The first gas lighting of a theatre in New York city.
1865 – A U.S. patent was issued to Richard Jordan Gatling for the Gatling gun, invented in 1861. It was the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate, and ease of loading into a single device. The gun was hand-cranked to rotate a cylinder of ten barrels, each loaded from a gravity-feed magazine on top and fired on each revolution. (He was motivated to invent the weapon after he noticed the majority of dead returning from the American Civil War died of illness, rather than gunshots). He thought if a rapid-firing gun could enable one man to do what previously required many, then armies could be smaller, saving men from exposure to battle and disease (pic credit-pixel.com).
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874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, travelling on two routes (pic credit-pinterest.com).
1882 – A stethoscope of the now classic design, invented by William F. Ford was issued a U.S. patent.
1893 – The first motion picture exhibition was given by Thomas Alva E
dison in New York to an audience of 400 people using Edison’s Kinetograph. An optical lantern projector showed moving images of a blacksmith and his two helpers passing a bottle and forging a piece of iron.
1926 – A rotor ship first replaced the sails.
1936 – The Hindenburg Zeppelin arrived at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, fr
om Germany marking the beginning of regular transatlantic passenger service. The flight, carrying 51 passengers and 56 crew, took 61-hr 38-min.
1962 – A laser beam was bounced off the moon from earth by MIT scientists
. The area of the light beam on the surface was estimated at a diameter of 4 miles.
1995 – Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine in Budga
m district of Kashmir. More than 1,000 houses burnt (pic credit-Wikipedia).2018 – Walmart takes a majority stake of about 77% in Indian online retailer Flipkart for 
$16 billion.
2018 – Indian Supreme Court criticises the country’s archaeological conservation body (ASI) for failing to protect Taj Mahal from discoloration and green slime.
2019- Archaeologists hail Anglo-Saxon tomb found 2003 in Prittlewell, England, as Britain’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb as full report of its contents
2023 – Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan dramatically arrested at the High Court in Islamabad, prompting violent protests by his supporters against security forces.
Born…. 1540 – Maharana Pratap , the king of Mewar (a region in north-western India in the present-day state o
f Rajasthan). He was known for his participation in the Battle of Haldighati and Battle of Dewair to resist Mughal’s expansion. He was a great revolutionary Rajput warrior.
1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale aq liberal political leader and a social reformer during the Indian Independence Movement. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and the founder of the Servants of India Society. He was the political Guru o
f Mahatma Gandhi.
1953 – Mallika Sarabhai. daughter of India’s famous space scientist Vikram Sarabhai, and popular dance exponent Mrinalini Sarabhai, Mallika was a social activist, classical dancer and actor. She acted in Himalaya Se Ooncha, Mutthi Bhar Chawal, The Mahabharata, Sonal etc. She was aw
arded Padma Bhushan, Gujarat Gaurav Puruskar and French Order of Academic Palms in 2005. (pic credit-Wikipedia).
RIP….1959 – Bhaurao Patil, founder of Rayat Education Society. He was a social activist a
nd educator in Maharashtra. Bhaurao’s philosophy was earn and learn through which he played an important role in educating backward castes at low income (pic credit-digjainwiki.com).
1998 – Talat Mahmood, singer and film actor. (His lilting number जायें तो जायें कहाँ picturis
ed on evergreen star Dev Anand on a sea beach, in the black & white movie ‘Taxi Driver’ remains immortal). Also sang Mirza Ghalib’s ghazals and some Bhajans. Was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1992 (audio clip on YouTube credit- AY.com).
Titbits…. Mahatma Gandhi who had paid his only visit to Kashmir when he visited from 1 to 4 Aug 1947, admired the masses for maintaining exemplary Hindu-Muslim unity at a time when there were dark clouds of strife and observed that he saw “a ray of hope” in Kashmir despite communal frenzy elsewhere on the sub-continent (pic credit-magzter.com).
Let us keep that hope alive!
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