Today’s Motto: ‘Everything you want to achieve is on the other side of fear’

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

On this day,  Aug. 30……..

1574 – Guru Ram Das became the 4th Guru of the Sikhs. He fonded the city Ram Sar, now known as Amritsar. Also promoted and enriched Gurumukhi, the script of Punjabi language. Wrote many Shabd compilation in Gurumukhi.

1831 – Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electrical transformer.

1860 – 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead).

1885 – The first motorcycle was patented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany, also established Mercedes Benz alongwith Karl Benz.

1914 – 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed.

1928 – Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India.

1929 – Colonel E. H. Green took delivery of a new combination gas and electric automobile, built by the General Electric Company.

1963 – The “Hot Line” communications link between the White House, Washington D.C. and the Kremlin, Moscow, went into operation. This was one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1990 – Parliament unanimously passes the Prasar Bharati Bill. (It is an autonomous body comprising Doordarshan Television Network and All India Radio.

1992 – The first Indian-built ALH (Advanced Light Helicopter) successfully flown in Bangalore.

1993 – 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower.

2021 – America ends its longest-ever war of 20 years in Afghanistan as the last military evacuation plane flies out of Kabul.

Born….

1569 – Salim Mirza Jahangir, fourth Mughal Emperor and son of Akbar.

1930 – Warren Buffett, American business magnate and share market operatort  (was world’s wealthiest person in 2008). Present assets worth $ 130 B by Forbes estimates. (pic credit-CNBC)

1954 – Ravi Shankar Prasad, veteran Sepreme Court  lawyer and BJP politician. Former Union Inf. & Broadcasting Minister.

RIP….

1936 – Madam Bhikaji Rustum Cama, freedom fighter, Indian Persian  revolutionary and politician from Maharashtra.

1991 – Dr. P. J. Devras, friend of snakes.

2003 – Charles Bronson,  American actor of action films born in mining region of Pennsylvania.

You may have known….

Barsana i.e. a good day to be a woman: This town in Mathura district is popular for celebrating Lath Maar Holi which is celebrated a little before the festival of Holi. During this celebration, people hit each other with sticks or laths. In t

he Radha Rani Temple of Barsana, men or the ‘gops’ sing provocative songs for the women or the ‘gopis’, who in turn chase the men away with laths, leaving the men trying to

protect themselves with shields.

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