Today’s Motto: ‘Winning never happens by accident’

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

On this day,  Aug. 19…….

1600 – Akbar captured Ahmednagar.

1757 – First Rupee Coin of the East India Company is Minted in Kolkata.

1839 – Louis Daguerre announced the invention of the daguerreotype photographic process, the first process to allow an image to be chemically fixed as a permanent picture.

1856 – Gail Borden of New York, was issued a U.S. patent for his process for condensed milk. Condensed milk could be preserved for long periods of storage, and in this form milk became more readily available in large cities than had been possible before.

1960 – Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying two dogs named Belka (Squirrel) and Strelka (Little Arrow), along with 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants, beginning a safe round trip into Space, after which they became the first living organisms to return from space.

1919 – Afghanistan declares independence from U.K.  control after about 80 years.

1944 – Last Japanese troops driven out of India. The defeat at Kohima and Imphal was the largest defeat to that date in Japanese history.

1991 – Janajev & KGB coup in Russia depose Mikhail Gorbachev, who is deposed in Russia.

2020 – Apple becomes the 1st US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached $1 trillion valuation.

Born….

1916 – Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma,  9th President of India between 1992-97.

RIP….

1976 – Jan Nisar Akhtar, poet. {He was a part of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood. He wrote 151 songs. Notable among them were, Aankhon hi Aankhon Mein in Guru Dutt’s CID (1956), Yeh dil aur unki nigahon ke saaye in Prem Parbat(1974) and Aaja re in Noorie (1979) and his last song was, Ae Dil-e-naadaan, in Kamal Amrohi’s Razia Sultan (1983)}.

1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian actor, writer, singer. Master of Quick Wit jokes. Was honored with Acamdemy Honorary and several other cine awards. (pic credit-Wikipedia)

1993 – Utpal Dutt, popular Bengal and Bollywood actor. Played comedy roles. Known for Bhuwan Shome, Dhanraj Tamang,  The Guru, Chaalchitra, Angoor, Golmaal, Rang Birangi, Naram Garam  etc.  Awared national Film award for Bhuwan Shome and 3 Filmfare awards.

You may have known….

Self-flagellation – The Mourning of Muharram: This might make you very, very uneasy. Muharram translates into ‘forbidden.’ It is the holy month of remembrance and mourning. Mourning begins on the first day of the month with a 10 day fast and culminates into The Day of Ashura (tenth day), when Shia Muslims carry out the ritual of mass self-flogging to commemorate the martyrdom of Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. In a terrifying display of devotion, men mercilessly whip their bodies with blades attached to chains till they are soaked in their own blood. In their state of religious trance, they claim they do not feel the pain.    (pic credit-India NetZone.com)

 

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