Today’s Motto: ‘A good leader will make more opportunities than he finds’

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

On this day, 27 Feb….

1803 – Big  fire raged through Bombay (comprising seven islands), destroying almost a third of the city’s houses. Densely populated, it was devastated, and in its aftermath authorities pushed through major changes, extensively altering the urban landscape and uprooting communities. Ironically, considering the post-fire desire for space and expansion, Mumbai today is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.

1867 – Dr. William G. Bonwill of US invented the dental mallet while watching a telegraph key sounder operate in a Philadelphia hotel (pic credit-findagrave.com).

1874 – Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord’s Cricket Grounds.

1879 – Sccharin, the artificial sweetener, was discovered by Constantin Fahlberg.

1900 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann was issued a U.S. patent for “Acetyl Salicylic Acid”. It was marketed as Apirin.

1932 – The neutron was discovered by Dr. James Chadwick. He was awarded Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1935.  (pic credit-atomstimelineweebly.com).

1942 – J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun.

1947 – The first closed-circuit broadcast of a surgical operation showed procedures to observers in classroom by Dr. Alfred Blalock.

1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

1985 – Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief.

1998 – Britain’s House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son.

Born…. 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, (Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor).  English-American actress who started as a child actor at young age of 8 years to become one of the greatest Hollywood celebrity. She did  about 155  films like her top-notcher  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) , A Place in the Sun, Suddenly, Last Summer, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, There Must be a Pony, Giant, The Flintstones, God The Devil, and Bob, These Old Broads (2011). She married 8 times). She won Academy Award 4 times, BAFTA Fellowship, Screen Actors’ Guild Lifetime Achievement and several other awards.

1952 – Prakash Jha. Famous Indian filmscript-writer,  director, producer who has done socio-political and crime

highlighting films like Damul, Mrityudand, Gangajal, Apharan, Rajneeti etc. and documentary Faces After the Storm which won him a National Film award. He won a  Filmfare and Apasar award for best dialigues in Aarakshan (pic credit- Ian Govan for Getty Images).

1990 – Inderjit Banerji. Bollywood film actor. Has acted in over 80 films like

RIP….   1892 – Louis Vuitton. French enttepreneur, who launched his fashion chain operating in over460 stores in  80 countries.

 1931 – Chandra Shekhar Azad. He was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association under the new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. He was the follower of  freedom fighters Manmath Nath Gupt and  Ram Prasad Bismil and did not like Gandhi’s route of freedom thru’ non-violence.  He was involved in Kakori Train Robber  (1925),  shooting of JP Saunders (1928) to take revenge the killing of Lala Lajpat Rai and organising attack of Viceroy’s train (1929).  It is believed he was killed in Alfred Park  due to tip off by one of their  caders. Many films have been made to relate the story of freedom struggle by him and other revolutionaies and schools/colleges named after him.   He is considered to be the mentor of Shaheed Bhagat Singh.

1964 – Anna Julia Roberts.  American  authoer, educator, socialogist,  speaker and activist for Blacks Rights and Liberation.

2013 – Dale Robertson. American TV and Hollywood actor. Known for The One-eyed Soldiers, Son of Sindbad, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, J.J. Starbuck etc.

You may have known….Some of the new industries that emerged during the first five-year plan were newsprint, power looms, medicines, paints and varnishes and transport equipment. In spite of the top priority given to agriculture, irrigation and power generation, in the first five year plan, industrial production showed 40 per cent increase as compared to 30 per cent increase recorded by grain production. As a matter of fact, the First Five Year Plan laid down the basis for future progress of industries.

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