Today’s Motto: ‘Failing in originality is better than succeeding in imitation’
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. 13…….
1851 – The first public message was sent on the submarine telegraph cable under the English Channel between Dover, England and Calais, France.
1855 – A proposal for a tunnel under the English Channel was reported in the New York Daily Times, which, according to French engineer M. Loèpold Favre, would in five years connect Boulogne to Dover.
1909 – Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ”Hind Swaraj” on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
1913 – 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob.
1930 – The Rotolactor, invented by Henry W. Jeffries, was housed in the lactorium of the Walker Gordon Laboratory Company, US. This was a 50-stall revolving platform that enabled the milking of 1,680 cows in seven hours by rotating them into position with the milking machines.
1946 – Artificial snow from a natural cloud was produced over Mount Greylock for the first time in the U.S. An airplane spread small pellets of dry-ice (frozen carbon dioxide) for three miles at a height of 14,000 ft. Although the snow fell an estimated 3,000 feet, it evaporated as it fell through dry air, and never reached the ground. The experiment was carried out by Vincent J. Schaefer of the General Electric Company. (Earlier the same year, he had produced snow in a cold chamber, on 12 Jul 1946).
1952 – False fingernails 1st sold.
2014 – Representatives for the Islamic State announce that the group will begin minting its own currency in order to remove itself from the world financial system, which it considers ‘satanic’.
2014 – Rohit Sharma of India sets a new record of 264 runs (in 173 balls) against Sri Lanka in an ODI innings in cricket. The record still holds.
2015 – Terror attacks in Paris at 3 locations leave at least 129 dead. Isis claim responsibility.
2017 – First Barbie doll to wear a hijab, modelled on Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad unveiled in New York.
2017 World’s earliest wine-making uncovered from Khramis Didi Gora, Georgia, in clay pots from 6,000 BC ( Image credit: Mindia Jalabadze /National Museum of Georgia).
Born….
1780 – Maharaja Ranjit Singh, “Lion of Punjab”.
1935 – P Susheela, legendary singer who entered Guinness Book of Records for singing 17,695 songs figuring in solo, duet and chorus mode as on Jan. 28, 2016.
1967 – Juhi Chawla, Bollywood actor who performed in Dil Hai Hindustani, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Ishq, Darr etc. (image credit-Arora-Khatri Community)
You may have known….
The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
{C0mpiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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