Today’s Motto: ‘The strongest lubricant for success is the Determined Action’

This is Your Day:  TODAY:  Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!

On this day, 26 Mar….

1668 – England took control of Bombay.

1845 – A patent was awarded for an adhesive medicated plaster, predating the ‘Band-Aid.’ A Johnson & Johnson company executive designed the tape to cure his wife’s small cuts in kitchen.

1872 – Thomas J. Martin was awarded a patent for the fire extinguisher.

1885 – The first cremation in England took place at Woking, where a crematorium was built.

1916 – Robert Stroud stabbed and killed a prison guard in Leavenworth Kansas. For this crime, he was imprisoned for life. While there, Stroud conducted and published important research on bird diseases, and became the “Birdman of Alcatraz,” named for the prison where he spent his sentence (pic credit-thefamouspeople.com).

1931 – New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.

1934 – Driving tests introduced in Britain.

1953 – Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine to immunise people against polio.

1971 – Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence.

1996 – The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.

2014 – Beijing issues air pollution warnings, advising limited outdoor activity as particulate concentration measures over 12 times the World Health Organization standard.

Born….1940 – Nancy Pelosi. Famous American politician, was  Speaker of US Senate of Repre4sentatives between 2019-23.  Wrote books like The art of Power, Know Your Power etc.

1940 – James Cann. American actor and karate master who trained under japanese Takayuki Kubota. Played the character of Sonny Carleone in The Godfather. Got Hollywood Hall of Fame honour.

1944 –  Diana  Ross. American and British  lead singer of The Supremes, who had over 100 million music  records to her credit.  Won a Golden Globe, two Holliwood Walk of Fame titles   and several other awards. (pic credit-thefamouspeople.com)

1962 – Archana Puran Singh, film and TV personality. Known for comedy roles in films and popular Kapil Sharma  Show and Comedy Circus. She has acteds in Agnipath, Kick, Raja Hindustani, Mela, Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, Mohabbaten, Virgin  Bhanupriya, Luv Da  the End, Panga Gang  etc.  she has won 2 Filmfare, a People’s Choice, IIFA awards each .

1973 – Lawrence Edward Page, an American computer engineer who was a graduate student when he co-founded Google, Inc. with Sergey Brin, while working in the same Ph.D. programme.

1985 – Keira Knightingley – British actress known for her role in Star wars, The Phantom  Lives, Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of The Caribbean, Pride And Prejudice and Imitation Games etc.

RIP…. 1814 – Joseph Ignace Guillotin, French physician who promoted a law requiring the use of a “machine that beheads painlessly” as a humane mode for all executions. (The beheading device ‘Guillotine’ was named after him).

You may have known….The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.

 

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}