Motto: A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.’

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

On this day, August 31 ….

1625 – The first patent for antifouling paint was issued in Britain to William Beale. He used a mixture of cement, copper compound, and powdered iron that was intended to impair marine growth of the boreworm on a ship’s hull.

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

1842 – The first U.S. patent for a machine to trim the heads of nuts and bolts was issued to Micah Rugg.

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

1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope.

1900 – Private William Dean became the first volunteer with clear results that exposed himself to yellow fever as part of the research carried out by Walter, Cuba. Dean allowed Mosquito No.12 to feed on his arm.

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 at an altitude between 400 and 500 feet.

1955 – The first solar-powered car was publicly demonstrated. It was a 15-inch Sunmobile built by William G. Cobb of the General Motors Corporation.

1956 – The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was enacted by Indian Parliament. It was a major reform of the boundaries of States and territories, organizing them along linguistic lines.

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.

1994 – Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov.

Born….

1919 – Amrita Pritam, Punjabi poet, novelist and Gyanpeeth award winner.

1949 – Richard Gere, US actor.

 

1953 – Rituparno Ghosh, film director.

1969 – Javagal Srinath, cricketer (Indian right-arm pace bowler since 1991).

RIP….

1995 – Beant Singh, CM of Punjab, assassinated.

1997 – Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, dies in car crash in Paris at 36.

You may have known….
Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

 

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