Today’s Motto: ‘A week has seven days; Someday is not one of them’

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

On this day,  Aug . 31……..

1751 – English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot in India.

1895 – Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented in Germany his invention of the rigid airship, known as the Zeppelin.

1900 – Coca-Cola was first sold in Britain in the basement restaurant of Spence’s department store, a silk merchant and general goods store in London.

1909 – Nobelist Paul Ehrlich began the first chemotherapy (a term he coined).

1910 – The first U.S. airplane flight over water was made by Glenn Hammond Curtiss in his biplane over Lake Erie from Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland, Ohio, to Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio. At an altitude between 400 and 500 feet, the 70 mile trip took 78 minutes nonstop.

1968 – Dr. Michael E. De Bakey of Houston led the first simultaneous multi-organ transplant from one donor to four recipients. Two kidneys, one lobe of a lung and the heart were removed from a 20-yr-old woman who died from a gunshot. The organs were transplanted into four men at Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas. The surgery, which began within eight hours of the woman’s death, was performed by five teams totalling more than 60 physicians, nurses and support persons.

1993 – A skin test for Alzheimer’s disease was announced from research led by Dr Daniel L. Alkon at the National Institutes of Health.

2019 – India removes citizenship status from 1.9 million people in state of Assam, leaving them off its new National Register of Citizens.

2023 – New computer model study suggests humanity was almost wiped out 900,000 years ago with just 1,280 reproducing individuals left.

Born….

1919 – Amrita Pritam, most popular Punjabi poet, novelist,  Gyanpeeth and Sahitya Academy award winner.

1949 – Richard Gere, US actor. Prominent films Pretty Woman, An Officer and a Gentleman, Hachi Dog’s Tail,  American Gigolo, Runaway Bride, Unfaithful.  Won Golden Globe and several other cinema awards. (pic credit-merca.com)

1953 – Rituparno Ghosh, popular Bengal and Bollywood film director.

1969 – Javagal Srinath, reputed as the fastest Indian bowler  Right-arm pace bowler since 1991. (pic credit-India Content)

RIP….

1995 – Beant Singh, former CM of Punjab (1992-95). A Congress Party leader. Was assassinated by terrorists in 1995 (pic credit- Wikipedia).

1997 – Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, was the daughter of 8th Earl John Spensor and Frances Ruth Shand Kydd of Britain. First wife of King Charles III.  Died in car crash in Paris at 36.

You may have known….

Shetpal i.e. aasteen ka saanp: Based in the Sholapur district of Maharashtra, the people of  village  Shetpal have a special resting place for cobras in their houses. Surprisingly, there has never been a causality reported of a villager being bitten by the cobras.                                                                                                                                                                                                        {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}