Today’s Motto: ‘Light tomorrow with today’

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

On this day,  Sept. 02….. ….

1666 – Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8.

1792 – Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails and slaughter them.

1898 – Machine gun 1st used in battle.

1901 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt advises, “Speak softly and carry a big stick”. It became a historic quip.

1944 – Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz.

1945 – Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day).

1946 – Jawaharlal Nehru, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Undivided India, against Partition.

1947 – Gandhiji is mobbed in Calcutta house; gives up idea of Noakhali visit. Peace efforts intensified.

1970 – Indian Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs.

1984 – Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.

1985 – It was announced that a U.S. and French expedition had located the wreckage of the Titanic about 560 miles off Newfoundland, 73 years after the British luxury liner sank.

1987 – Philips introduces CD-video.

1987 – Donald Trump takes out a fullp-age NY Times ad lambasting Japan.

1993 – The United States and Russia formally ended decades of competition in space by agreeing to a joint venture to build a space station.

1996 – Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva.

2015 – Earth’s trees number just over 3 trillion according to study in “Nature” by Thomas Crowther of Yale University.

2023 – India successfully launches its first spacecraft, Aditya-L1, to study the Sun.

Born….

1941 – Sadhana Shivdasani, popular Bollywood actor. Known for roles in Hum Dono, Waqt, Ek Phool Do Maali, Ek Musafir Ek Hasina, Aarzoo, Mere Mehboob, Geeta Mera Naam, Anita, Ishq Par Zor Nahin etc. Was honored with 4 Filmfare,  IIFA Lifetime Achievement awards
1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis champion (US Open-1978, 82, 83,

Wimbledon-1974, 82).Was World No. 1 Tennis player from 1974-77.  (pic credit-International Tennis Hall of Fame)

1972 – Sonam Kapoor, Bollywood actor and daughter of veteran  Anil Kapoor.

1988 – Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer, fast bowler.

RIP….

2009 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

You may have known….  

Sentinelese Tribe, Andamans – the red buckets: The Sentinelese tribe is one of the most private tribes existing in the world. They are not just least interested in mingling with “modern” society, but are downright hostile when it comes to interactions with the outside world. We can’t really talk much of their tribal traditions as hardly anything is known. But one weird fact is how fond these people are of buckets. Specifically, red buckets. When a group of archaeologists managed to reach relatively close to the island without being shot at with arrows, they received buckets as gifts, in red and green colours along with pigs. The poor pigs were killed and buried. Strangely, the Sentinelese took the red buckets but left the green ones on the shore. Weird!   (pic credit-National Herald)

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