Today’s Motto: ‘Run away from flattery, but try to deserve it’
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 . 20……..
1896 – Dial telephone patented.
1897 – Physician Sir Ronald Ross made a key breakthrough when he discovered malaria 
parasites while dissecting a mosquito. This day is now known as World Mosquito Day, in celebration of this important discovery.
1913 – 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France).
1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.
1979 – Indian premier Charan Singh resigns.
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980 – Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone.
1995 – Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched.
1995 – India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.
2023 – Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft crashed into the moon according to Roscosmos, the country’s space agency.
Born….
1944 – Rajiv Gandhi. son of former PM Indira Gandhi, he became the Prime Miniser at 40, (1984-89). Was a youthful and progressive leader, initiated computerisation in the country but was deposed by his minister VP Singh
on Bofors scandal issue. Was assassinated on 21st May 1991 by an LTTE affiliated group for sending IPKF against them in Sri Lanka.
1946 – N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder of IT giant Infosys has a net worth of US$ 510 Crores, The company has a net worth of UD$ 92.65 (Rs 838.82 Billion, as of June-Augist 2024. (pic credit-Mashable India).
1976 – Randeep Hooda, Bollywood actor, writer, producer, director. Popular films Jism, Jannat, Cocktail, Rubaru , Beeba Boys, Sarbjit, Saheb Bibi anr Gangster, Love Khichdi, Hertoine, Highway, Bombay Talkies, Tryst with Destiny and Swatantrya Veer Savarkar etc. Honored with ITA, Stardust, Big Star and many awards.
You may have known….
Kesh Lochan: A very popular ritual in India is to sacrifice one’s hair and offer it to God. People somehow believe that to thank or please God, it is a good idea to make Him wake up with shedloads of hair dumped for Him. So, it is a wide practice to offer locks to God. Some people even take it a step forward, and go bald, to offer all the hair to God. 
But, even then, they got beaten by the Jains, who have quite a painful and shocking Rituals in India. The Jain saints and monks practise the ritual of going bald by plucking the hair out. They either do it themselves, or have someone do the plucking for them, once or twice a year, as a mark of renunciation of worldly pleasures and to teach 
endurance of pain.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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