Today’s Motto: ‘When you feel like giving up, look back at how far you’ve come’

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

On this day, Mar. 12…….

1755 – A steam engine was first reported used in America, at a copper mine It was imported from England by Josiah Hornblower and put to use pumping water from the mine of Colonel John Schuyler.

1789 – U.S. Post Office established.

1889 – Almon B. Strowger of Kansas City patented the first automatic telephone exchange. Tradition gives that his inspiration came because a local telephone operator was his principal competitor’s wife, and she would divert Strowger’s clients to her husband. The first Strowger telephone exchange opened on 3 Nov 1892. This early system did not use a dial to enter the desired number. Instead, using three keys, one for each digit of a three-digit number, a subscriber pressed each key the appropriate number of times for each digit. The first dial phone was used in 1896 (pic credit-Reddit). 

1894 -The first bottles of Coca-Cola were sold. (Coca-Cola was invented by Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist who created the formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard on 8 May 1886. He mixed a combination of lime, cinnamon, coca leaves, and the seeds of a Brazilian shrub to make the famous beverage. Carbonated water was introduced later to make the beverage as now familiar. Coca-Cola was originally used as a nerve and brain tonic and a medical elixir. Asa Candler owned the company, after Pemberton’s death. On 31 Jan 1893, the famous Coca-Cola formula was patented. He also opened the first syrup manufacturing plant in 1884. He began large scale bottling of Coca-Cola in 1899).

1923 – The Phonofilm, the first motion picture with a sound-on-film track was demonstrated at a press conference. It was developed (1920) by Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the radio tube (1907). Dancers and musicians were shown on the film with music, but without voice dialogue.

1930 – Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m march protesting British salt tax.

1942 – British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.

1967 – Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections.

1992 – India and the US decide to hold joint naval exercises in the Indian Ocean.

1995 – Congress party in India loses elections.

1997 – Jaspal Rana equals world mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi. Won Asian Games Gold in 1994 and several other medals.Jaspal Rana Institute for Education and Tech. Dehradun named after him.

2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

2012 – China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade.

2018 – Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32 percent on average in just four years.

2021 – Researchers say world has likely reached ‘peak twin’ with more twin births than ever before – 1.6 million twins born per year (1 in 42).

Born….

1946 – Liza Minnelli, American singer/actor.

1959 — Lakshmi Rajagopalan, Carnatic vocalist. Given Sangeeta Visharda award by Jagadguru Shankracjarya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1964 – Falguni Pathak, folk singer also known as Dandiya Queen. She sang for fims like Koyla, Ganth, Ham Hain Kamal Ke, Deewanapan, Zakhmi Insaan etc. She won MTV International Viewers Choice in 2000 (video credit-Falguni Pathak)

1984 – Shreya Ghoshal, popular Bollywood singer. Won 5 National Film awards, 7 Filmfare and several other awards for playback singing. Sang for films like Devdas, Vivah, Guru, Paheli, Badrinath ki Dulhania,  Wazir, Khoya Khoya Chaand etc. (picc credit-Fa

You may have known….
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                                                                                                                               {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}