Motto for Today: ‘If you want to be happy, just be.’
As each day is a new beginning in one's life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Books
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Dec.05…….
1893 – 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges.
1929 – 1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City).
1950 – Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India.
1951 – The first push button-controlled Park-O-Mat garage opened in Washington. It had no ramps, no aisles and no lanes. Instead, a single attendant, without entering a car, could automatically park or return an auto in less than a minute.
2008 – Human remains previously found in 1991 are finally identified by Russian and American scientists as those of Tsar Nicholas II.
2014 – NASA successfully tests its unmanned Orion spaceship for potential human flight over 3,500 miles from Earth; several years and more tests will be needed before the vessel is ready for human travel, potentially paving the way for manned trips to Mars.
2017 – Twitter reveals K-pop boy band BTS were the most tweeted-about celebrities in 2017.
Born….
1905 – Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
1931 – Admiral Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Chief of Indian Navy.
1935 – General Bipin Chandra Joshi, former chief of Indian Army.
1985 – Shikhar Dhawan, cricketer.
RIP….
1950 – Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher.
2013 – Nelson Mandela, former South African President and an anti-apartheid icon.
You may have known….
Most estimates put the number of stars in the Milky Way at between 100 billion and 400 billion stars.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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