Today’s Motto: ‘Use failures as a catalyst for improvement’

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

On this day,  Mar. 02…….

1825 – Work began on the Thames Tunnel in London, the world’s first tunnel under a navigable river. It opened for pedestrians on 25 Mar 1843. Planned ramps for use by carts and freight traffic were never added due to cost. The tunnel re-opened with a railway line on 7 Dec 1869, and it continued in use as the oldest part of the London Underground. (pic credit-Britannica)

1863 – Congress authorised a track width of 4-ft 8-1/2 in. as the standard for the Union Pacific Railroad, which became the accepted/standard width for most of the world. (All high-speed rail lines, except those in Russia, Uzbekistan, and Finland, are standard gauge ie 4 ft 81/2 inches. It is also called the UIC gauge or UIC track gauge. A popular legend that has been around since at least 1937 traces the origin of the 4 ft  8 1⁄2 in gauge even further back than the coalfields of northern England, pointing to the evidence of rutted roads marked by chariot wheels dating from the Roman Empire. Snopes categorised this legend as “false”, but commented that “… it is perhaps more fairly labelled as ‘True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons”).

1866 – Excelsior Needle Company of Wolcottville, Connecticut, began making sewing machine needles.

1908 – Gabriel Lippman introduced the new three-dimensional colour photography at the Academy of Sciences. Was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 (pic credit-NobelPrize.org).

1928 – Mrs R Valentino patented a doll.

1930 – Gandhiji addresses letter to Viceroy intimating his intention to break Salt Law if Congress demands are not conceded (pic credit-Pinterest).

1959 – An experimental push-button phone was tested by the Southern New England Telephone Company to see if customers dial fewer wrong numbers using the new design.

1962 – Burmese army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d’état, transforming Burma into a one-party socialist state under the Burmese Way to Socialism ideology.

1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

2016 – Longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight by distance, Emirates A380 flies 14,200km (8,824 miles) Dubai to Auckland in 17 hours, 15 minutes.

2023 – UN confirms it will ignore statements made by an Indian guru and now fugitive from the fictional country of the United States of Kailasa, made attending official UN events in Geneva.

Born….

1933 – Anandji Virji Shah, popular music director. He alongwith Kalyanji formed a very successful music composer unit. Composed music for Aamne Saamne, Bluffmaster, Safar, Kathputli, Sarawstichandra, Chhoti Bahu etc. The duo got Filmare awasrd fpor Kora Kagaz and National  Film Award for Saraswatichandra (pic credit- MCAI)

1963 – Vidyasagar, South Indian film composer, musician and singer.

RIP….

1644 – Guru Har Gobindji. Sixth Sikh Guru, son of Guru Arjun Dev jiand father of Guru Teg Bahadurji, grandather of Guru Gobind Singhji (pic credit-kookasikh.com)

1568 – Meerabai, Born 1498 AD) Sri Krishna devotee saint poet. Wrote many Bhajans and religious books.

1949 – Sarojini Naidu (born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay), a poet, writer and

known as “Nightingale of India”, freedom fighter, social worker and was President of Congress Party, member Constituent Assembly  and later Governor of Uttar Pradesh.  (pic credit-Contitution of India)

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Unhappy people tend to sleep more.                                                    {Complied by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}