Today’s Motto: ‘The self is made, not given’
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 the history Book!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Dec.18……..
1796 – 1st U.S. newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor).
1912 – The discovery of the skull known as Piltdown man, the first important fossil human skull ever to be
unearthed by Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith Woodward was announced. The specimen, known as Piltdown man, occupied an honoured place in the catalogues of fossil hominids for the next 40 years, when it was revealed to be nothing more than a forgery.
1926 – In a letter published in Nature, G.N. Lewis coined the word “photon” when he suggested that it “would seem inappropriate to speak of one of these hypothetical entities as a particle of light, a corpuscle of light, a light quantum, or a light quant, if we are to assume that it spends only a minute fraction of its existence as a carrier of radiant energy, while the rest of the time it remains as an important structural element within the atom”.
1992 – BJP expresses regret over the demolition of the Masjid in Ayodhya in Parliament.
2011 – The last US troops withdrawn from Iraq, formally ending the Iraq War.
2019 – US House of Representatives votes to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power (230-197) and obstruction of Congress (229-198).
2020 – South Africa announces detection of new variant of COVID-19, called 501.V2, which is driving a second wave of infections.
Born….
1756 – Guru Ghasidas, freedom fighter and social reformer (pic credit-Pinterest).
1913 – Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany from 1969-74. Was awarded Nobel Peace P:rize in 1971.
1946 – Steven Spielberg, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws).
1963 – Brad Pitt, American actor. (pic credit-POPSUGAR)
RIP –
1832 – Philip Freneau, American poet and Freedom Fighter
1974 – Alexei Kosygin. Powerful Prime Minister of Russia (1964-80)
Titbits….
1898 – Automobile speed record set – 39 mph.
You may have known….
Those who like collecting neckties are known as ‘Grabatologists’.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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