Today’s Motto: ‘Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one’
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, Jan. 25………..
1565 – Battle at Talikota: the Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar’s army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India.
1840 – American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is first to identify Antarctica as a new continent (pic credit-Britannica).
1870 – Gustavus Dows of US received his first patent for an “Improved Soda Fountain” being the vessel in which carbon dioxide was injected, both forming the soda-water beverage, and delivering the drink using the internal pressure.
1914 – An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorse the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters.
1915 -The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated transcontinental telephone service in the United States with a call made between New York City and San Francisco, which was answered by Dr. Watson, his longtime assistant.

1945 – Grand Rapids became the first U.S. city to begin fluoridating the drinking water. With the intention of reducing tooth decay, one part per million of fluoride was added to the water supply. (Fluorine is the 13th most abundant element on earth, found in nature in its ionic form – fluoride – in combination with other elements, such as calcium, magnesium, phosphates etc. The highest concentrations are found in the bones and teeth. Decades after the conclusion of the Grand Rapids fluoridation study, fluoride continues to be dental science’s main weapon in the battle against tooth decay).
1950 – The post of the Governor General of India was abolished.
1952 – The Autronic Eye, an automatic car headlamp beam control was introduced to the public by General Motors. A phototube atop the left end of the dashboard, just inside the windshield, dimmed the lights upon the approach of an oncoming car, and back to bright when the traffic had passed.
1955 – Columbia University scientists developed an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years.
1957 – Kashmir becomes Indian State.
1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian State.
1981 – Mao’s widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death.
2000 – The Centre begins the process of privatising the country’s domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, and also approves the sale of majority equity in Modern Foods India Limited.
2005 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
2011 – Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labour strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities.
2015 – U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi make progress in the areas of defence and nuclear trade; the countries plan to cooperate on defence issues, military manufacturing initiatives and nuclear power development.
2023 – America and Germany announce decision to send powerful battle tanks (US 31, Germany 14) to Ukraine to fight Russia invasion.
Born….
1917 – Captain P.K. Sahgal, freedom fighter who attended Indian Military Academy course at Dehradun. Was officer ion British Army but captured by Japanese in WWII. He joined Netaji’s Azad Hind Fauz and attcked British from Burma side. Was tried by British in Red Fort. (picture- middle in the back row-credit-Wikipedia)
1958 – Kavita Krishnamurthy, popular singer who sang for Devdas, Mohra, Hum, Dil Hai Tumhara, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Mr. India, Khal Nayak, Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai etc. (pic credit-Spotify)
1988 – Cheteshwar Pujara, prolific right hand batsman cricketer (pic credit-Telegraph India).
You may have known….
If you stare at a tiger in the eyes, there is less of a chance it will attack you.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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