Today’s Motto: ‘You must not only aim right but draw your arrow with all your might’

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

On this day,  Aug . 29……..

1612 – Battle at Surat: English fleet beats Portuguese.

1866 – A public demonstration was given of the first cog railway in the world to show the first half-mile of track at the base of Mount Washington.

1885 – Boxing’s 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey.

1959 – India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.

1962 – The dangerous long-range side-effects of DDT and other pesticides was the subject of a press-conference question to President John F. Kennedy. In his reply, he stated that the government was taking a closer look at this. (Eventually, in 1972, DDT was banned in the US.

1965 – Astronaut Gordon Cooper in orbit 100 miles above the Earth aboard Gemini 5, held a conversation with aquanaut M. Scott Carpenter in Sealab II which was 205 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. It was first time an astronaut in space spoke with an aquanaut. (Gemini 5 splashed down later in the day).

1974 – Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charansingh.

1991 – Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. (It is still in service).

1993 – Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.

1995 – India declared 29 August as National Sports Day.

2015 – NASA isolated a six-person team for a year within a small dome in Hawaii in order to simulate theoretical conditions of a Mars mission; the team would have no fresh air or fresh food, and a spacesuit must be worn when exiting the dome

Born….

1915 – Ingrid Bergman, most popular and influential  Swedish  actor. Known for films Casablanka, Notorious, Spellbound, Indiscreet,  Gaslight,  etc. She won over 23 awards including Golden Globe, Emmy, BAFTA and Academy etc. in her 5 decades cine career. (pic credit-Google and Getty Images)

1923 – Hirulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder (played just One Test for India 1952-53).

1929 – Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Separatist leader in J&K. Co-founded All Parties  Hurriyat Conference in 1993. Died on Sept. 1, 2021.

1958 – Michael Jackson, recording artist and King of Pop.

1959 – Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu actor.

RIP….

1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actor (Casablanca, Gaslight), dies on her 67th birthday.

1982 – Shree Maa Anandmayee, Indian Saint of  of universal fame. (Her body was laid to rest at Shree Anandamayee Ashram in Kankhal).

Titbits….

1896 – Chop suey invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador.

You may have known….

Mattur i.e. where time stands so still, you can hear it: Situated on the banks of Tunga river of Karnataka, Mattur is a village famous for being the ‘Sanskrit village’. The inhabitants of this village converse in Sanskrit in their day-to-day life and not only during poojas. For people like us, who thought that Sanskrit was taught only in schools, Mattur is a living example that it is not history but present reality. (pic credit-Google)

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