Today’s Motto: ‘Learn from the clock; keep going’
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, Dec.05…….
1846 – Christian Frederick Schönbein of Basle, Switzerland, was issued a U.S. Patent for guncotton titled “Improvement in Preparation of Cotton-Wool and Other Substances as Substitutes for Gunpowder”.
1854 – Aaron H. Allen of Boston, was issued a U.S. patent for a folding chair as an “Improvement in Self-Adjusting Opera-Seat” for theatres or other public buildings.
1876 – A U.S. patent for the first practical pipe wrench – the Stillson wrench – was issued to Daniel C. Stillson of Somerville.
1893 – 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges.
1908 – 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh).
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.
1990 – Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years.
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.
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, Indian opening batter/cricketer.
RIP….
1950 – Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher.
1998 – Hazel Gladys Bishop, an American chemist and cosmetic executive who made an indelible mark on the cosmetics industry by inventing non-smear (“stays on you not on him”) kiss-proof lipstick.
2013 – Nelson Mandela, former South African President and an anti-apartheid icon.
2018 – CO2 emissions reach all-time high (up 2.7%) driven by coal use in China and consumption of oil, in Global Carbon Project report.
2022 – Construction begins on world’s biggest radio telescope – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in South Africa and Australia with collection area of nearly 500,000 square meters. Built to test Einstein’s theories and search for extraterrestrial life.
You may have known….
Astronauts can grow up to two inches taller in space.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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