Today’s Motto: ‘Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important’

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

On this day, 03 Apr….

1866 – A hat shaping machine was patented by Rudolph Eickemeyer and G. Osterheld.

1932 – Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.

1933 – 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest.

1956 – Nehru announces that troops have been sent to control Naga tribal people in the Burmese border area, who are asking for a separate state.

1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implanted a total artificial heart into a 2-month-old patient. The patient received a heart transplant, but dies of respiratory insufficiency only 14 hours later.

1973 – Francis W. Dorion patented a ‘Duel Razor Blade assembly.’

1973 – First cell phone call. The first portable phone call was placed by inventor Martin Cooper. The phone was 10 inches in height, 3 inches deep and an inch-and-a-half wide and weighed 30-oz (photo credit- Alejandro Garcia/Shutterstock ).

1984 – Soyuz T-11 carried three cosmonauts along with the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma to Salyut 7. Soyuz T-11  cum  Salut 7 was a Russian space Mission which started in May 1982 to  June 1986.  Rakesh Sharma stayed in the space station  for 7 days 21 hours 40 minutes in April 1984.

2015 – France has outlawed the hiring of models who do not meet new Body Mass Index (BMI) minimums for a certain period of time before and during a modeling job; the law aims to prevent promotion of anorexia among models and people who emulate them (pic credit-br-pinterest).

Born…. 1914 – Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India’s first Field Marshal, for his  military leadership and strategic war planning. He was better known as “Sam Manekshaw”. Also called  Sam  Bahadur, he was the Chief of Indian Army  during  Bangladesh Liberation War of  1971.

1958 – Jaya Prada, veteran  film Actress and politician.. Born in Rajahmundry (A.P.), she acted in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil films. Her prominent films are Bhale Krishnudu,  Deha, Dasavataram, Maharathi, Kamchor, Sargam, Kurukshetra,  Sharabi, Sanjog  etc.  She has won 3 Filmfare awards and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 (above video credit- Ultra Bollywood).

RIP…. 1670 – Tanaji Malusure, right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died during the battle of Singhgad fort (pic credit-wikibio.in).

1680 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, great Maratha King,, patriot,  freedom fighter, revolutionary, founder of the Maratha empire and great son of India. His  war expertise was ‘Gorrilla-Chhapamar warfare)  against  bigger and better armed Mughal army.  He killed mughal general Afzal Khan  who had hidden weapons on him while  embracing Shivaji.  He escaped miraculously  from  Aurangzeb’s  prison in  Agra,  by hiding in  fruit baskets.

Titbits….

1936 – Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds.

1975 – Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it.

You may have known….

India designed the  caliberated  ruler. (Rulers made of Ivory were in use by the Indus Valley Civilization period,  prior to 1500 BC. Excavations at Lothal (2400 BC) have yielded one such ruler calibrated to about 1⁄16 inch (1.6 millimetres).Ian Whitelaw holds that the Mohenjo-Daro ruler is divided into units corresponding to 1.32 inches (33.5 millimetres) and these are marked out in decimal subdivisions with amazing accuracy, to within 0.005 inches (0.13 millimetres). Ancient bricks found throughout the region have dimensions that correspond to these units (pic credit-freeenglishsite.com).

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