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Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Fursa nyingi zinapotea kwa sababu watu wanatafuta bahati.
Acha kutafuta bahati, fanyia kazi kila fursa inayokuja mbele yako. Kumbuka bahati ni pale maandalizi yanapokutana na fursa.
Nakutakia siku njema.
October 27
97
To placate the Praetorians of Germany, Nerva of Rome adopts Trajan, the Spanish-born governor of lower Germany.
1553
Michael Servetus, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood, is burned for heresy in Switzerland.
1612
A Polish army that invaded Russia capitulates to Prince Dimitri Pojarski and his Cossacks.
1791
President George Washington transmits to Congress the results of the first US census, exclusive of South Carolina which had not yet submitted its findings.
1806
Emperor Napoleon enters Berlin.
1809
President James Madison orders the annexation of the western part of West Florida. Settlers there had rebelled against Spanish authority.
1862
A Confederate force is routed at the Battle of Georgia Landing, near Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana.
1870
The French fortress of Metz surrenders to the Prussian Army.
1873
Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered the inventor of barbed wire.
1891
D. B. Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box.
1904
The New York subway officially opens running from the Brooklyn Bridge uptown to Broadway at 145th Street.
1907
The first trial in the Eulenberg Affair ends in Germany.
1917
20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so, New York has an important effect on the movement to grant all women the vote in all elections.
1922
In Italy, liberal Luigi Facta's cabinet resigns after threats from Mussolini that "either the government will be given to us or we will seize it by marching on Rome." Mussolini calls for a general mobilization of all Fascists.
1927
Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released.
1941
In a broadcast to the nation on Navy Day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares: "America has been attacked, the shooting has started." He does not ask for full-scale war yet, realizing that many Americans are not yet ready for such a step.
1954
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the US Air Force.
1962
American U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Cuba, killing the pilot, Maj. Rudolf Anderson, the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1962
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removes its missile bases in Turkey.
1964
The political career of future US president Ronald Reagan is launched when he delivers a speech on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
1971
The Democratic Republic of the Congo renamed Zaire.
1986
London Stock Exchange rules change as Britain suddenly deregulates financial markets, an event called the Big Bang.
1988
US President Ronald Reagan decides to tear down a new US Embassy in Moscow because Soviet listening devices were built into the structure.
1997
Stock markets crash around the world over fears of a global economic meltdown.
Born on October 27
1728
Captain James Cook, British explorer.
1811
Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine.
1858
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901-1909).
1914
Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet.
1923
Roy Lichtenstein, 'pop art' painter.
1927
Ruby Dee, actress and civil rights activist.
1932
Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist.
1939
John Cleese, actor-writer best known for comedy productions (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers).
1940
Maxine Hong Kingston, writer (The Woman Warrior, China Men).
1946
Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer.
1950
Fran Leibowitz, writer (Metropolitan Life, Social Studies).
1958
Simon Le Bon, lead singer of the band Duran Duran and Arcadia.
1975
Aron Ralston, outdoorsman, engineer, author; known for surviving an accident by amputating his own right forearm to escape from under a boulder that had trapped him for over five days.
Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Uzuri unaishia kwenye ngozi, ila ubaya unakwenda mpaka kwenye mifupa.
Acha kuonesha uzuri nje wakati ndani kumejaa ubaya, kuwa na uzuri kutoka ndani.
Nakutakia siku njema.
Binadamu huzaliwa na mifupa 300, lakini mpaka anapokuwa mtu mzima anakuwa amebaki na mifupa 206 tu.
Kinachosababisha mifupa ipungue ni kwamba baadhi ya mifupa huungana na kutengeneza mfupa mmoja.
Pia ndani ya sikio lako kuna mifupa midogo sana kama ulikuwa hujui pia.
Today in History
October 24
439
Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, falls to Genseric and the Vandals.
1531
Bavaria, despite being a Catholic region, joins the League of Schmalkalden, a Protestant group which opposes Charles V.
1648
The signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ends the German Thirty Years' War.
1755
A British expedition against the French held Fort Niagara in Canada ends in failure.
1836
The match is patented.
1861
Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line, putting the Pony Express out of business.
1863
General Ulysses S. Grant arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to find the Union Army there starving.
1897
The first comic strip appears in the Sunday color supplement of the New York Journal called the 'Yellow Kid.'
1901
Anna Edson Taylor, 43, is the first woman to go safely over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She made the attempt for the cash award offered, which she put toward the loan on her Texas ranch.
1916
Henry Ford awards equal pay to women.
1917
The Austro-German army routs the Italian army at Caporetto, Italy.
1929
Black Thursday–the first day of the stock market crash which began the Great Depression.
1930
John Wayne debuts in his first starring role in The Big Trail .
1931
Al (Alphonse) Capone, the prohibition-era Chicago gangster, is sent to prison for tax evasion.
1934
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called Mahatma or "Great Soul," resigns from Congress in India.
1938
The Fair Labor Standards Act becomes law, establishing the 40-hour work week.
1944
The aircraft carrier USS Princeton is sunk by a single Japanese plane during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1945
The United Nations comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 nations.
1945
Vidkun Quisling, Norway's wartime minister president, is executed by firing squad for collaboration with the Nazis.
1952
Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that if elected, he will go to Korea.
1970
Leftist Salvador Allende elected president of Chile.
1973
Yom Kippur War ends.
1980
Poland's government legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
1992
Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the 11th inning of the 6th game, to become the first Major League Baseball team from outside the US to win the series.
2003
The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial passenger flight from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London's Heathrow Airport, traveling at twice the speed of sound.
2008
Many stock exchanges worldwide suffer the steepest declines in their histories; the day becomes known as "Bloody Friday."
Born on October 24
1632
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist.
1788
Sarah Josepha Hale, magazine editor and poet whose book Poems for Our Children included "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (the first words to be recorded in sound)
1904
Moss Hart, American playwright who, with George S. Kaufman, wrote plays such as You Can't Take it with You and The Man who came to Dinner.
1911
Sonny Terry, blues performer.
1923
Denise Levertov, English poet.
1929
George Henry Crumb, American composer.
1930
The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), singer, songwriter, musician; an early star of rock 'n' roll ("Chantilly Lace"), he died in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the pilot, Roger Peterson.
1933
Ronald and Reginald Kray, gangsters whose gang, The Firm, was the most infamous organized crime group in London's East End in the 1950s and '60s.
1941
Dr. William H. Dobelle, biomedical researcher who developed technology that restored limited sight to blind patients.
1942
Frank Delany, Irish author, journalist, broadcaster; best known for his novel Ireland and non-fiction book Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea.
1958
Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, US Army's Deputy Director of Operations during the Iraq War that deposed dictator Saddam Hussein; presently (2013) commander of Third Army.
Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.
Kushindwa kunaweza kukujaribu, lakini hakuwezi kukuzuia. Kama kwa mara ya kwanz ahujafanikiwa jaribu tena kwa mara nyingine. Kwa kila kikwazo kuna suluhisho. Hakuna kinachoweza kuchukua nafasi ya uvumilivu.
Kosa kubwa unaloweza kufanya kwenye maisha yako ni KUKATA TAMAA.
Kamwe usikate tamaa.
Kamwe kamwe usikate tamaa.
TUPO PAMOJA.
Mara nyingi kwenye jamii zetu huwa tunawaona watu waliofanikiwa kama watu wenye bahati. Yaani walikutana na bahati ndio maana wamefikia mafanikio makubwa sana.
Inaweza kuwa kweli ila hujui nini maana ya bahati.
BAHATI NI PALE MAANDALIZI YANAPOKUTANA NA FURSA.
Hivyo ili na wewe upate bahati una kazi mbili za kufanya;
1. Kujiandaa kwa kiwango cha juu sana, weka mipango na jifunze.
2. Kutafuta fursa inayoendana na maandalizi yako.
Baada ya hapo mafanikio ni wewe tu kuendelea kuweka juhudi kubwa na kuendelea kujifunza kila siku.
TUPO PAMOJA.
A genius is a person who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
Mtu mwenye akili nyingi ni yule ambaye analenga shabaha isiyoonekana na mtu mwingine ila yeye na akaipatia.
Usiogope kutimiza ndoto zako hata kama watu wanakuambia haziwezekani.
TUPO PAMOJA.
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