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On this day, Nov.03……

1838 – The Times of India, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

1862 – Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun.

1892 – The first automatic telephone exchange, using the switching device invented by Almon B. Strowger, opened to the public in LaPorte, Indiana, US, with about seventy-five subscribers.

1906 – “SOS” was specified as the international distress signal, in a document signed by representatives of 27 nations at the second International Wireless Telegraph Convention in Berlin.

1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

1957 – Sputnik 2 was launched, with the first live animal sent into space – a Siberian husky dog, Laika (“barker” in Russian). By design, the craft was not planned for recovery, and Laika died in orbit. Biological data, the first data of its kind, was transmitted back to Earth while she lived. The data showed scientists how Laika was adapting to space – information important to the imminent planned manned missions (pic credit-Russian SpaceWeb.com).

1988 – Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and sought to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.

1998 – Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiraling vegetable prices, but PM Vajpayee refused to accept the resignation.

2013 – Africa, Europe and the United States experience a rare solar eclipse, with the west African nation of Gabon enjoying peak viewing when the total eclipse sweeps across a path nearly 60 kilometres wide.

2014 – One World Trade Centre opens, 13 years after terrorists destroyed the twin towers of the original World Trade Centre. (The tower was one of 5 to be built on the same site and, at 1,773 feet high, is now the tallest building in the United States).

2019 – Delhi reaches worst pollution levels of the year, over 900 AQI, with authorities declaring public health emergency.
Born….

1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and photographer who discovered nitrogen (pic credit-Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh).

1901 – Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran actor and patriat of Kapoor cine family (pics credit-IMDb).

1933 – Amartya Kumar Sen, Nobel Prize winner Indian economist.

1937 – Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, of the popular composer duo Laxmikant Pyarelal fame.

RIP….

1990 – Manmohan Krishna, veteran character actor.

1992 – Premnath, veteran Bollywood Hero and character actor.

Titbits….

3 November is World Sandwich Day. It’s called a “sandwich”, after the earl who came around several hundred years later. And so, National Sandwich Day celebrates both the Earl himself, after whom this food was named, as well as the wonder he brought to the world in the form of what we now know as the sandwich.

You may have known….

                                                                                               A cow gives 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime. 

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