Motto for Today: ‘Use failure as a stepping stone to success’.

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

On this day, 10th August….

1859 – The first full-time Inspector of Milk in the U.S. was appointed by the city of Boston. Three years earlier, a state law against adulteration of milk had been signed on 30 May 1856, but it was ineffective, as it depended on individuals making a claim in court. The 1859 law provided an official to crack down on fraud. It established a ten-dollar fine for selling “swill milk,” the poor, thin output of cows kept in unsanitary conditions and fed on distillery refuse.

1889 – Dan Rylands patented the screw cap.

1930 – In the ‘Gandhi Cap Case’ in Guntur, the magistrate prohibits the wearing of Gandhi caps within a five-mile radius of the town. (In its history of 150 years, the Madras High Court, lists it as one of the causes cèlébres of the Court. Apparently in June 1930, the District Magistrate of Guntur passed an order that the Gandhi cap could not be worn by anyone in a public place in Guntur and within five miles of it. Negotiations on this went back and forth, but the Magistrate eventually backed the Police plea that they could not differentiate between who was a member of the Civil Disobedience Movement {all of whom wore the caps} and who was not but who might be wearing the cap).

1943- Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots,

1945 – Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito’s status remains unchanged.

1960 – An ejected space capsule from Discoverer 13 was recovered when it returned from orbit; it was the first human-made object recovered from space.

1994 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841).

2000 – Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.

2017 – 100-year-old fruit cake by Huntley & Palmers deemed “almost eatable” after being discovered in hut used by Captain Scott’s expedition in Antarctica.

2019 Monsoon flooding in southern and western India kills at least 150 with 40 dead in Kerala state.

Born....

1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, the great architect of the renaissance of Hindustani music and who played a vital role in giving re-birth to North Indian classical music.
1894 – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India.

1963 – Phoolan Devi, bandit and politician.

RIP….

1986 – General A.S. Vaidya, who was Chief of Army Staff, at the time of ‘Operation Blue Star’. Was shot dead in Pune.

1999 – Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India.

You may have known….

On average, pigs live for about 15 years.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

{Compilation credits- Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}