Today’s Motto: ‘Every mountain top is within reach, if you keep climbing’

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

On this day,  Sep. 08………

1930 – Scotch tape was developed by Richard G. Drew at 3M, St. Paul Minnesota, US.The public found the tape had a wide range popular applications in mending, sealing and joining (pic credit-National Inventors Hall of Fame USA)

1930 – 1st appearance of comic strip “Blondie”.

1954 – SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia.

1961 – Statistical evidence linking heavy smoking with heart disease was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

1962 – Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first occasion of Chinese infiltration.

1965 – Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India’s options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southernmost divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.

2012 – Pakistan and India plan to mutually ease visa requirements.

2020 – Two ex-Myanmar soldiers testify they were ordered to rape and kill Muslim Rohingya villagers, 1st public confession of army-directed crimes against Rohingya.

2022 – Queen Elizabeth II dies after ruling for 70 years, as the UK’s longest-serving monarch.

Born….

1887 – Swami Sivananda, religious  and 128 year Yoga teacher, practitioner. Hindu universalist renaissance Guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide.

1935 – Asha Bhosle, famous playback singer, actor, entrepreneur. Younger sister of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. Daa Saheb Phalke awardee, won 2 National Film, 9 Filmfare awards, 18 BFJA and was nominated twice to Gramy Has Guinness World record for most (approx. 14-15,000) songs.  (video credit-Master Series)

RIP….

1960 – Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha.

1982 – Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Kashmir, who dominated the political scene of Jammu and Kashmir for about 50 years.

You may have known….

Frog Marriage: The months of May and June are the hottest in the country with the temperatures often hovering in the range of 40 to 45 degrees Celsius at many places. This is the time when people need monsoon the most. But the arrival of monsoon varies from place to place. Sometimes monsoon also gets delayed throughout the country. In order to urge God to shower common people with rain, frog marriages are carried out. The wedding of frogs signifies that during rainy season frogs may come out and welcome Lord Indra. The wedding is performed so that frogs croak and welcome Indra Dev as well as the monsoon showers. The sound of frog croaking is the sign of the onset of rain. Hence the marriage can bring about rain.      (Varanasi photo credit-News18)

 

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