Today’s Motto: ‘There is no ‘someday’ in the calendar’
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.25…….
1817 – 1st sword swallower performance in U.S. (New York City).
1837 – The first U.S. patent for a silk figure power loom was issued to William Crompton. The figure or pattern of the cloth was made on a chain.
1839 – Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people.
1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1884 – The first U.S. patent for the process of evaporated milk was issued to John Meyenberg, a Swiss immigrant. Gail Borden had already been marketing condensed milk, but that was sweetened as part of the preserving process. Evaporated milk is not sweetened, and has up to 75% of the water removed from the cow’s milk.
1922 – Archaeologist Howard Carter opened the first of two doorways to the tomb of King Tutankamun. In his diary, Carter recorded, “Noted seals. … Opened 
the first doorway; which comprised rough stones built up from the threshold to the lintel, plastered over on the outside face, and covered with numerous impressions from various seals of Tut.ankh.Amen and the Royal Necropolis seal. … As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments… These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.”
1948 – Cable television was invented by Leroy “Ed” Parsons of US (pic credit-Western State Museum).
1948 – National Cadet Corps was first established in India.
1975 – The first U.S. patent for a whole-body X-ray scanner was issued to Robert S. Ledley.
2009 – A Pakistan court charges seven suspects involved in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
2020 – Dead and buried mink reported rising from the ground due to bloating, after a hurried cull of millions of COVID-19 infected animals in Denmark.
2021 – India has more girls than boys for the first time in its history and its population boom is ending, according to new government survey.
Born….
1844 – Karl Friedrich Benz, a German mechanical engineer who designed and in 1885 built the world’s first practical automobile to be
powered by an internal-combustion engine.
1929 – Surinder Kaur, Punjabi folk songwriter and singer.
1966 – Roopa Ganguli, Bengali and Bollywood actor, and politician, who performed Draupadi role in BR Chopra’s TV serial Mahabharat.
1977 – Dilip Tirkey, veteran Hockey player and Captain sportsman.
1978 – Rakhi Sawant, Marathi stage and Bollywood actor.
RIP….
1984 – Yashwantrao B. Chavan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra and former Deputy Prime Minister (pic credit-Britannica)
You may have known….
Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort. {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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