Today’s Motto: ‘Speak your mind even if your voice shakes’
As every day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Nov.07……
1865 – London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded.
1876 – A patent for the first U.S. cigarette manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City.
1918 – Robert Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform,. Goddard began work for the Army in 1917 to design rockets to aid in the war effort. By Sep 1918, Goddard had presented the Army Signal Corps with several options. The simplest version could be fired from trenches; the largest could carry an 8-lb payload a distance of about one mile.
1946 – The first U.S. coin-operated television to be publicly exhibited was displayed in New York City. It operated when a 25-cent coin was inserted.
1971 – India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery.
1990 – National Front Government headed by V. P. Singh loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha (151-356). Singh tenders his resignation and this is the end of 11-month-old National Front Government.
1995 – India opens second consulate in UK in Glasgow (first being at Birmingham).
2017 – Extreme smog in Delhi, India, leads Indian Medical Association to declare “a state of medical emergency”.
2018 – World’s oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old identified in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, Indonesian Borneo.
2019 – Humans 1st walked upright 12 million years ago (not 6 million as previously thought), according to study a new species of ape found in Bavaria, Germany, published in “Nature”. (pic credit -iStock)
2019 – Song lyrics have gotten sadder says researchers who studied 50 years of lyrics at University of Exeter, published in journal “Evolutionary Human Sciences”.
Born….
1867 – Marie Curie, a Polish-French chemist and physicist who won two Nobel prizes in 1903 and 1911. She died of radiation poisoning from her pioneering work before the need for protection was known.
1888 – Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering.
1954 – Kamal Haasan, Actor, Film producer, Screenwriter, Film director, Choreographer, Singer, Lyricist, Philanthropist, Composer.
1969 – Nandita Das, Bollywood actor.
RIP….
1862 – Bahadur Shah Jafar -II, last Mughal emperor of India. Died at Rangoon in British prison.
You may have known….
Frogs cannot vomit. If one absolutely has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
Comments are closed.