Today’s Motto: ‘Knowing how to talk is smartness; knowing how to listen is wisdom’

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

On this day,  Aug .09………….

1753 – The first steam engine imported into the American colonies landed at New York City. It was installed to pump water from a copper mine (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1839 – John Herschel made the first (remaining) photograph on glass plate. The image he captured was of the 40-foot, 48″ aperture telescope used by his father William Herschel, in Slough, England. It had sat decades without use, and was dismantled a short time later. In papers he published in 1840-42, he coined the new words “emulsion”, “positive” and “negative” and reinforced Stenger’s earlier introduction of the word “photography.”

1843 – A U.S. patent was issued, antedated to 29 Jul 1843, for a hand-cranked ice-cream freezer invented by Nancy M. Johnson (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1925 – Government Treasury from Postal Train was looted near Kakuri Station just about 22 km. away from Lucknow by the members of ‘Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.’

1934 – The first rocket fired in America to break the sound barrier was launched by the American Rocket Society from Staten Island, New York.

1945 – The first “bug” in a computer programme was discovered by Grace Hopper: a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay and taped into the log.(The grand dame of military computing, computer scientist and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, coined the terms ‘bug’ and ‘debug’).

1963 – India was the first country to add its signature to the Test-ban treaty at Moscow.

1998 – India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.

2000 – Parliament approves the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2000, paving the way for the creation of a separate Chhattisgarh State.

2016 – Longest ever hunger strike ends, Indian human rights campaigner Irom Sharmila Chanu tastes honey after 16 years. She was protesting against Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Assam, Nagaland.

Born….

1893 – Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist. Wrote in Bihari, Bhojpuri and Hindi. His writings are  Mata Ka Anchal, Shivpujan Rachnavali etc. He edited noted magazines of those times like Marwari Sudhar, Madhuri,  Rangbhoomi (of Munshi Premchand), Samanvay, Mauji, Golmal, Upnyas Tarang, Ganga and Jagaran etc. Was awarded Padam Bhushan.

1648 – Johann Michael Bach, famous German composer.

1944 – Manya Surve. A famous gangster of Bombay who ruled crime world in the state.

1959 – Debashis Roy. Famous Bengal film actor, director and politician.

1963 – Whitney Houston, famous American singer,  actress, film producer. She had  a record of 220 Million music albums/songs. Was awarded with Grammy, Billboard, MTV  and Golden Globe  several times,

You may have known….

Rolling over food leftovers – Madey Snana , Karnataka: Casteism has been one of India’s oldest problems. While the society has changed and condemns such unwarranted discrimination, many still hold on to it. The Kukke Subramania Temple has a strange centuries old tradition called Madey Snana or Spit Bath. Those from lower castes roll on the floor over food leftovers of Brahmins on banana leaves, to rid themselves of various ailments. This practice was banned in 2010, but it had to be lifted in 2011 after protests by the Malekudiya tribe. The ritual has been categorised as a blind belief in the proposed Karnataka Prevention of Superstitious Practices Bill (2013) after progressive leaders and liberals in the state upped their ante against the controversial practice.

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