21st August, 2020; Vaishali, Ghaziabad, UP, India
234 days gone… 132 still remaining in 2020…
After 108 years a “message in a bottle” put in the sea by UK Marine Biological Association is announced found on a beach in Amrum, Germany on August 21, 2015
On 21st August 1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes a coup d’etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot, ending 50 years of parliamentary rule.
On 21st August 1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
On 21at August 1911 “Mona Lisa” stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)
On 21at August 1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state
I, too, was born on this date along time ago… it was a leap year, the Chinese year of Rats… not sure about the star sign which is Leo, I relate more with the characteristics of the raashi Dhanu / Sagittarius as per the Hindu astrology… yes I belong the the Gen X… totally squeezed generation between the still going strong baby boomers and the hyper self cantered millennials…
📢#CoronaVirusUpdates:📍 #COVID19 India Tracker(As on 21 August, 2020, 08:00 AM)
▶️ Confirmed cases: 29,05,823
▶️ Recovered: 21,58,946 (74.3%) 👍
▶️ Active cases: 6,92,028 (23.8%)
▶️ Deaths: 54,849 (1.9%)
Worldwide it’s 22.7 million confirmed cases; 794,021 casualties; 14.5 million recoveries so far…
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