Today’s Motto: ‘Leaders think and talk about the solutions not about the problems’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Aug. 10……..
1889 – Dan Rylands patented the screw cap.
1930 – In Guntur, the magistrate prohibits wearing of Gandhi caps within a five-mile radius of the town. (In his history of 150 years, the Madras High Court, lists it as one of the cause cèlébres of the Court. Negotiations on this went back and forth, but the Magistrate eventually backed the Police plea that they could not differentiate between who was a member of the Civil Disobedience Movement {all of whom wore the caps} and who was not but who might be wearing the cap).
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960 – An ejected space capsule from Discoverer 13 was recovered when it returned from orbit; it was the first human-made object recovered from space.
2000 – Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.
2017 – 100 year-old fruit cake by Huntley & Palmers deemed “almost eatable” after being discovered in hut used by Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 
expedition in Antarctica (pic credit-Art Blart).
2018 – Evidence of one million Uighurs being held in “counter-extremism centres” in China presented to UN Committee on Human Rights.
2019 – Monsoon flooding in southern and western India kills at least 150 with 40 dead in Kerala state and 100,000 in emergency relief camp.
Born….
1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, the great architect of the renaissance of Hindustani music and who played a vital role in giving re-birth to North In
dian classical music.
1894 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India. 1963 – Phoolan Devi, bandit from Madhya Pradesh jungles, later turned politician.
RIP….
1986 – General A.S. Vaidya, PVSM, MVC & Bar, AVSM, ADC who was Chief of Army Staff, at the time of ‘Operation Blue Star’. Was shot dead at Pune in 1986.
1999 -Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya (died just 2 months bef
ore reaching 100 years). Eminent Hindi and Sanskrit Scholar in India. He wrote many books, essays, collections of literary volumes. Bouddh Dharam Mimansa was one of his most researched book. He was honored with Padma Bhushan by GOI.
You may have known….
Cannibalism and Necromancy – The Aghori way of life, Banaras: The formidable Aghori Sadhus of 
Banaras (Varanasi) are easily recognisable in their long, matted hair and bodies smeared in ash. Their way of connecting to God is, very subtly put, off-beat. These monistic saints believe in renouncing the world by finding ‘ purity in the filthiest.’ This leads them to eat human remains after cremation and have intercourse with corpses. They are believed to be possess tantrik powers of healing. 
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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