Motto for Today: ‘Even if you do foolish things, do them with enthusiasm.’

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

On this day, Sept. 23….

1803 – The British East India company defeated the Maratha Army at the Battle of Assaye.

1879 – Richard S. Rhodes invented the Audiophone, the first hearing aid.

1889 – Nintendo is Founded.

1930 – Johann Ostermeyer of Athegnenber, Germany, patented his “Improvements in flash lights used for photographic purposes.” The modern photographic safety flash bulb evolved from this design.

1932 – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is Founded.

1952 -1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.

1965 – The Indian Army secured the Kashmir Valley and the only object left was to clean out the remnants of the Gibraltar Force. Under the guidance of United Nations, the cease-fire came into effect.

1999 – India rejects Pakistan’s proposal for an international conference on arms control.

2017 – Women are allowed in King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh for the first time during Saudi Arabia’s anniversary celebrations.

2018 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches “Modicare”, free heathcare for 500 million, world’s biggest healthcare program.

2021 – Fossilized footprints 23,000-21,000 years old from White Sands, New Mexico indicate settlement by humans of North and South America earlier than previous thought.

Born…. 1908 – Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’, poet and essayist. (He is considered one of the most significant Indian poets who wrote in the Hindi language. His inspirational and affecting poems continue to be recited by young and old who appreciate Hindi literature today. During his lifetime, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s poems inspired many and continue to do so in the present time. In 1975, during the Emergency period in India, when civil rights were under threat, the political activist Jayaprakash Narayan memorably used the words of Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s poem ‘Singhasan khaali karo ke janata aati hai’ (Leave the throne, the people are coming) to inspire a crowd of 100,000 people in Delhi’s Ramlila grounds. The poem found resonance again in 2102 during rallies by civil rights activists in New Delhi. The words of this national poet or ‘Rashtrakavi’ continue to provide a source of inspiration and promote patriotic fervor. Dinkar was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and considered himself a Gandhian, however, having grown up in poverty, he identified with the anger of the youth and his works were written in the heroic mode or Veer Rasa. Dinkar also published some of his works under the nom-de-plume Amitabh in order to avoid trouble from the British authorities. In recognition of his contribution to Hindi literature Dinkar was conferred with the Padma Bhushan and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1959, and the Bhartiya Jnanpith award in 1972).

1935 – Prem Chopra, actor.

1943 – Tanuja Samarth, actor.

1957 – Kumar Sanu, playback singer.
RIP….

1863 – Rao Tula Ram, one of the leaders of the war of 1857.

1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian father of psychoanalysis, best known for such works as Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and the New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933).

Titbits….

1961 – 1st movie to become a TV series – How to Marry a Millionaire.

You may have known….
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

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