Motto for Today: ‘Be a voice. Not an echo.’

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

On this day, Mar.20……

1739 – Iranian ruler Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

1815 – Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.

1916 – Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was published as an academic paper. This theory accounted for the slow rotation of the elliptical path of the planet Mercury, which Newtonian gravitational theory failed to do. Fame and recognition came suddenly in 1919, when the Royal Society of London photographed the solar eclipse and publicly verified Einstein’s general theory of relativity

1934 – The first test of a practical radar apparatus was made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Harbour, Germany, Chief of the German Navy Signals Research Department.

1954 – 60,000 Viet Minh with heavy artillery surround 16,000 French troops, but the French held out for a further 6 weeks before being overcome by the greater numbers and defeated.

1959 – For the first time, officials of the Indian government confirmed reports of widespread resistance to the Chinese occupying forces in Tibet. Open warfare erupted in the capital city of Lhasa.

1977 – Premier Indira Gandhi loses election

1993 – Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai.

1997 – Maharashtra (like H.P.) proposes to make caring for aged parents mandatory.

1999 – Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain complete non-stop balloon circumnavigation around the world. (They had set off from Switzerland on March 1st 1999, travelling 45,755 kilometres lasting 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes and landing in Egypt on 20th March 1999).

2000 – Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.

2017 – Rivers Yamuna and the Ganges declared “living entities” by court in the State of Uttarakhand.

2019 – A woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease has helped researchers identify molecules on the skin of people with the disease in Manchester, England.

Born….

1951 – Madan Lal, cricketer, Indian medium pacer in the 70’s

1952 – Anand Armitraj, tennis player.

1966 – Alka Yagnik, singer.

1987 – Kangna Ranaut, actor. (Anurag Basu spotted her having coffee in a Mumbai cafe and signed her up for the movie “Gangster”).

RIP….

1351 – Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi.

1727 – Sir Isaac Newton. English physicist and mathematician who made seminal discoveries in several areas of science, and was the leading scientist of his era. His study of optics included using a prism to show white light could be split into a spectrum of colours. The statement of his three laws of motion are fundamental in the study of mechanics. He was the first to describe the moon as falling (in a circle around the earth) under the same influence of gravity as a falling apple, embodied in his law of universal gravitation.

1968 – Ghulam Mohammed, composer. He is most remembered for his work in musical-hit films like Mirza Ghalib (1954 – national award), Shama (1961) and Pakeezah (1972).

2014 – Khushwant Singh, writer.

You may have known….

A silk worm eats food 86,000 times its weight in 56 days.

 

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