Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
On this day, 28 Sep ....
1785 - Napoleon Bonaparte age 16 graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51).
1865 - Elizabeth Anderson became the first female licensed physician in Britain. The daughter of a Whitechapel paenbroker, she had studied medicine privately after being refused admission to medical schools. On 28 Sep 1865, she was examined orally in medicine, midwifery and medical pathology, and was one of three out of the seven candidates to receive a Final Certificate, entitling her to practise as a qualified physician and surgeon.
1889 - The third legal definition of the metre was adopted at the Paris General Conference. An international prototype metre bar was made of a 90-10 platinum-iridium alloy with an X cross section to minimise flexing. The metre was defined as the distance measured between two lines on the bar at the temperature of freezing water, 0 °C.
1959 - Explorer VI satellite (launched 7 Aug 1959) revealed an intense radiation belt around Earth and took the first remote imaging TV pictures of Earth meteorological conditions.
1985 - The first Indian Army expedition, sailing around the world in a small 37 feet fibre glass yacht named "Trishna", sailed off from Bombay. (The yacht belongs to the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The yacht embarked on its most notable voyage, the circumnavigation of the globe from 1985 to 1987. This was the first such achievement by an Indian crew. The team consisted of ten members, with six on the boat at any one time. These were: Maj K. S. Rao, SC, SM, - the Skipper; Maj A. Bhattacharya, S. M; Maj Amreshwar Pratap Singh, SM (Bar), VSM; Maj A. K. Singh, KC, SM; Capt Sanjeev Shekhar, SC; Capt Chandrahas Bharti, SC; Capt M.S. Pillai, SM; Maj S.N. Mathur, SM; Maj Rakesh Bassi; Lt Navin Ahuja, SM. Col T. P. S. Chowdhary, AVSM, was the Team Manager, who sailed from Gosport to Port Said).
Born....
551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher and founder of Confucianism.
1838 - Sai Baba of Shirdi.
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter.
1929 - Lata Mangeshkar, playback singer.
1982 - Abhinav Bindra, shooter.
1982 - Ranbir Kapoor, actor.
1985 - Mouni RLoy, actor.
RIP....
1895 - Louis Pasteur, French chemist who became a founder of microbiology. He created and tested vaccines for diphtheria, cholera, yellow fever, plague, rabies, anthrax, and tuberculosis.
1954 - 137 people were killed when an Express Train fell from a flood-damaged bridge near East of Hydrabad.
1956 - William Edward Boeing, was an American aviation pioneer who began a lumber business in 1902. His interests shifted to aviation, he trained at Glenn L. Martin’s flying school in 1915, and bought his own aircraft. In 1916, Boeing co-founded Pacific Aero Products Company (soon renamed Boeing Airplane Company).
Titbits....
1984 - 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India vs. Australia, New Delhi)
You may have known....
In 2001-2011 decade, the number of women with teachers' training graduate degrees increased by 122%. while the rise of those with degrees in nursing/medicine was a staggering 157%. However, this is expected because these disciplines are conventionally dominated by women, though the scale of increase is phenomenal.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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