Today’s Motto: ‘Love and compassion are parents of a smile’

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

On this day, 30 Jan….

1844 – Richard Theodore Greener became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.

1847 – The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco (pic credit-vintagenewsdaily.com).

1911 – The first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer “Terry.” Pilot James McCurdy was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.

1948 – Indian political and popular leader of  second Freedom Movement,  Mahatma, MK Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse. (Prior to his death, there had been five unsuccessful attempts to kill Gandhi, the first occurring in 1934).

1957 – An external artificial pacemaker with internal heart electrode was first used (pic credit-Pinterest).

1958 – Yves Saint Laurent, at age 22, held his first major fashion show in Paris.

1958 – The first two-way, moving sidewalk, 1,425 feet long, was put in service at Love Field Air Terminal in Dallas, Texas. It was known not only as a moving sidewalk, but also as a passenger conveyor.

1994 – Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee’s world record of 431 Test wkts.

1996 – Mob ransacks Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Bangalore.

1997 – Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes immersed in Sangam.

1998 – A new glue, Dermabond, able to replace painful stitches was approved by a medical advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration, US.

2002 – Japan’s last coal mine was closed. The closures were due to high production costs and cheap imports.

2019 – Scientists reveal discovery of cavity six miles long, 1,000 feet deep under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, leading to fears it might collapse and raise sea levels by two feet  (pic credit-researchgate.net).

Born…. 1913 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Budapest, Hungary born  Indian writer,  modern painter who mixed  Indian and European avante -garde  art  depictions. She was called  Frida Kahlo of Indian art scenario and won much accolades for her  oil pantings including a Gold Medal at Delhi Fine Arts Exhibition for her ‘Three Girls’  painting in 1936. She died on Dec. 5, 1941 at a young age of 28 only. (video credit-F// YouTube).

RIP…. 1528 – Rana Sanga of Mewar, (Sangram Singh I), a very powerful, brave fighter,  Suryavanshi  king (Sisodiya),  who had built up an extensive and powerful kingdom   Mewar, spread over central and western regions of Northern India, including today’s Rajasthan, Gujrata and Madhya Pradesh,  with capital at Chittor arehildren. It is believed he had 22 Ranis  (Queens) and several children. He faught and won  8 wars with Mughals including Ibrahim Lodi, Babar, Mehmud Khilji and their  commanders. In the last one he was injured seriously, with 80 wounds on body, but continued his fight till last, when his  soldiers took him to a safer place (pic credit-Observervoice.com).

You may have known….

Much of the added irrigation capacity during the colonial era was provided by groundwater wells and tanks, operated manually. It was such as  mechanical  water drawing pulley,  with circular bullock  pulling system, before electrical water pumps  were developed.

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