March 28 : You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

 On this day, 28 Mar...

1556 - Origin of Fasli Era, India. (Faṣlī era is a chronological system devised by the Mughal emperor Akbar for land revenue purposes in northern India, for which the Muslim lunar calendar was inconvenient. Faṣlī (“harvest”) is derived from the Arabic term for “division,” which in India was applied to the groupings of the seasons).

1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire received a patent for a washing machine.  (It is not possible to know exactly who invented the first washing machine and dryer. Some of the patents are so old that nothing is known about the original patent holder.The first British patent for a washing machine was issued in 1691. Not much is known about this machine or the creator. In Germany, Jacob Christian Schäffer published a design for a washing machine in 1767. In 1782 Henry Sidgier was issued a British patent for a rotating drum washer).

1866 - The first hospital-based ambulance went into service in the US. (The first recorded use of ambulances for emergency purposes dates back to Spain in 1487).  

1905 - The radio fax was patented in the U.S. by Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. His device was called "a system for transmitting intelligence." However, faxing did not become a practical mode of communication until the 1920s, and high-speed faxes were not available until the 1940s.

1910 - The first seaplane took off from Martigues near Marseilles, France, designed by Frenchman Henri Fabre.

1922 - Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C., patented a microfilm reading device.

1949 - Fred Hoyle unintentionally coined the term “Big Bang” as a household name, in a scripted radio broadcast on a BBC Programme. 

1977 - Morarji Desai forms government.

1996 - JKLF declared unlawful by Indian central govt.

1999 - Pakistan decides to ease visa restrictions for the aged, women and children from India in response to New Delhi's move towards visa relaxation for several categories of Pakistani nationals.

Born

1926 - Pahelam Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar, cricketer (Indian batsman & captain).

1948 - Moon Moon Sen, actor.

1975 - Sandhya Mridul. actor.

1975 - Akshaye Khanna, actor.

1976 - Chitrangada Singh, actor.

1978 - Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe,1997. (Joseph hanged herself in her flat in Versova on 29 July 2004. She was to marry businessman Gautam Khanduja in a few weeks' time, and it broke up). 

RIP

1645 - Har Govind Singh, Sikh Guru.

1943 - Sundara Sastri Satyamurti, an Indian independence activist and leading Congress politician of Madras Presidency.

1986 - Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana.

2006 – Bansi Lal, politician.

2012 - T. Damodaran, screenwriter of Malayalam cinema.

Titbits

2012 - The Mega Millions jackpot in the U.S. reaches a world record in lottery history - $500 million dollars.

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