Today’s Motto: ‘Your mind is a powerful organ. When you fill it with positive thoughts…..,

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

On this day, 10 Aug ….

1889 – Dan Rylands patented the screw cap.

1930 – The magistrate prohibits wearing of Gandhi caps within a five-mile radius of the town. (In his history of the 150 years of the Madras High Court, lists it as one of the cause cèlébres of the Court. Apparently in June 1930, the District Magistrate of Guntur passed an order that the Gandhi cap could not be worn by anyone in a public place in Guntur and within five miles of it. Negotiations on this went back and forth, but the Magistrate eventually backed the Police plea that they could not differentiate between who was a member of the Civil Disobedience Movement (all of whom wore the caps) and who was not but who might be wearing the cap).

1960 – An ejected space capsule from Discoverer 13 was recovered when it returned from orbit; it was the first human-made object recovered from space.

2000 – Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.

2003 – The first marriage in space (pic credit-africaeagle.com).

2018 – Evidence of one million Uighurs being held in “counter-extremism centers” in China is presented to the UN Committee on Human Rights.

2019 – Financier Jeffrey Epstein is found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges. He is alleged to have had links with former President Bill Clinton (pic credit-www.independent.co.uk).

Born…. 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, the great architect of the renaissance of Hindustani music and who played a vital role in giving re-birth to North Indian classical music.

1894 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India. He was a labour leader and was an independent candidate but later supported by PM Indira Gandhi against her Party’s candidate N Sanjeeva Reddy.

1934- P L Raj (Devraj Peter Lewis) was an Indian choreographer  who worked in the 1960s-80s. His famous films were Howrah Bridge, Junglee, Professor, Teesri Majil, Inteqam, Sholey, Don, Sargam Saagar, Ek Duje Ke Liye  etc. He also worked in Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Punjabi films.

1963 – Phoolan Devi, Indian bandit and revolutionary. She abandoned  decoit life after Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh’s  appeal and  later became an MP.  A film on her life was made by veteran film maker Shekhar  Kapoor.

RIP…. 1986 – General A.S. Vaidya, who was Chief of Army Staff, at the time of ‘Operation Blue Star’. Was shot dead at Pune.

1999 – Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India.

You may have known…. The total fertility rate in India (number of children per woman) in 1950-1955 was 5.9. In 2010-2015 it was 2.48.

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