Today’s Motto: ‘Hold fast to dreams, if these die, life becomes a wing-less bird’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Sep .10……
1846 – Elias Howe of Spencer, Massachusetts, received a patent for his hand-cranked sewing machine. Isaac Singer patented one five years later.
1869 – Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan. (Though the origins of the rickshaw are not entirely clear, they seem to be Japanese, and of Tokyo specifically).
1896 – The first successful surgery on heart muscle was performed by Ludwig Rehn in Frankfurt, Germany, who sutured a myocardial laceration of a 22-yr-old man stabbed in a drunken brawl.
1964 – Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) formed.
1966 – Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill for the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states.
1977 – The Planning Commission decides to introduce the Rolling Plan concept.
1984 – DNA fingerprinting was accidentally discovered in Leicester, England, by Alec Jeffreys as X-ray films of his tests first revealed the possibility.
1985 – Karl Hassel of Plain City, Ohio was awarded a patent for his built-in child’s car seat.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2015 – Scientists discover a cache of skeletons of a new species of human ancestor, named Homo naledi, in a South African cave; the hominids are thought to have possibly lived up to three million years ago (Photo credits- Mark Thiessen/National Geographic)
2022 – U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visits and calls for global support for flood-ravaged Pakistan where 33 million people are displaced and damage is estimated at $30 billion.
Born….
1872 – Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji “Ranji”, Maharaj Jamsaheb of Navanagar and noted cricketer. He was referred as “The prince of a little state, but the king of a great game”.
1887 – Govind Ballabh Pant. He was an outstanding parliamentary figure of his days. Was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1959.
1923 – Ram Jethmalani, veteran lawyer and politician, was Minister in Atal Behari Vajpayee Cabinet.
1972 – Anurag Kashyap, veteran Bollywood actor, screenwriter (Photo credit: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock).
1980 – Jayam Ravi, actor.
RIP….
1915 – Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.
1920 – Subramania Bharti, national poet in Tamil and Hindi languages, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary.
You may Have known….
The average distance that women in developing countries walk to collect water per day is four miles and the average weight that women
carry on their heads is approximately 44 pounds.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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