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On this day, Nov.28………..

1826 – John Walker (1781-1859), an English pharmacist from Stockton-on-Tees, invented the first practical, strike-anywhere, friction match, which he first sold on 7 Apr 1827.

1834 – The electric motor was invented by Thomas Davenport.

1895 – Alfred Nobel had his will drawn up in Paris, then deposited it in a bank in Stockholm. In it, he provided for most of his fortune to be put in trust to establish the Nobel Prizes.

1962 – Britain agreed to supply arms to India.

1979 – 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia vs. WI.

1989 – Dr. Christoph Broelsch team of doctors at the University of Chicago Hospitals implanted part of a woman’s liver in her 21-month-old daughter in the world’s first successful living donor liver transplant.

Born….

1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer who is famous for the temperature scale he developed.

1907 – Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet.

1952 – Bappi Lahiri, film score composer.

RIP….

1901 -Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer who founded a family firm that became the world’s largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles and a leader in automobile manufacturing.

1994 – D. V. Purohit (Nanasaheb), veteran freedom fighter and revolutionary.

Titbits….

2017 – 8 Donkeys freed from jail after 4 days in Orai, Uttar Pradesh for eating plants.
You may have known….

India’s fertility rate is 2.4 children per woman. Pakistan’s is 3.6 children per woman.

Good morning. Have a pleasant Sunday !

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

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