Motto for Today: ‘Stars can’t shine without darkness.’

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

On this day,  Mar.24…….

1882 – German scientist Robert Koch declared that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. “Koch’s postulates,” which now have been generalised are fundamental in the study of a cause of an infectious disease.

1898 – 1st automobile sold.

1906 – “Census of the British Empire” shows England rules 1/5 of the world.

1930 – Planet Pluto named.

1976 – Following advice from medical experts, President Ford called for the U.S. to give unprecdented swine flu vaccinations to the entire population.

1977 – Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister. This was first non-Congress Government in India.

1977 – Ban on RSS and 26 other organisations lifted.

1990 – Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was withdrawn in toto from the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.

1993 – Six of Memon family escape to Karachi.

1999 – For the first time in its history, NATO attacks a sovereign country (Yugoslavia).

2008 – Bhutan holds its first public election. The Bhutanese monarchy was established in 1907, unifying the country under the control of the Wangchuk family, hereditary penlops {governors}.

(1 April 2007, a mock election was held to prepare the population of Bhutan for the imminent change to democracy. These elections were held in all 47 National Assembly constituencies                    (photo credits-Sahityakalp and

constituencies and at 869 polling stations with around 1,000 voters at each one of them)                                               the Famous People)

2012 – China announces its plan to phase-out the practice of taking and selling organs from executed prisoners.

2013 – In Paris, hundreds of thousands of people protest the legalisation of same-sex marriage in France; the protest turns violent after access to the Champs-Elysees is denied.

Born….

1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, poet and composer, one of the Musical Trinity of Carnatic music. Tyagaraja and Syama Sastri are the other members of Trinity. (Carnatic music was transmitted orally for hundreds of years, and students had to rely on a great guru to learn music).

1874 – Harry Houdini [Erich Weiss], Famous magician and escape artist.

1950 – Prahlad Kakar, Indian ad film director.

1979 – Emraan Hashmi, actor.

Titbits….

1958 – Famous US singer Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761). He served two years in the army.

You may have known….
The first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong had first kept his left foot on the moon.         

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