Today’s Motto: ‘Life will always burst the boundaries of formulae’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!

On this day, Dec.23…….

1912 – In Delhi violent agitation continues as British Viceroy Lord Hardinge is wounded by a bomb explosion. (Indian revolutionary underground in Bengal and Punjab, headed by Rash Behari Bose attempt to assassinate Viceroy of India Lord Hardinge, by throwing homemade bomb into Viceroys’s Howdah (elephant carriage) during ceremonial procession in Delhi. Although wounded, the Viceroy survives. Investigations lead to the Delhi conspiracy trial (pic credit-Jayasree Patrika).

1922 – BBC Radio began daily newscasts (Pic credits-BBC).

1947 – The transistor was first demonstrated by Walter H. Brattain and John Bardeen to their higher-ups at Bell Laboratories. The name transistor came from its electrical property known as trans-resistance.

1954 – The first successful kidney transplant was carried out between identical twins by surgeons at Peter Bent Hospital, Boston.

1968 – American astronauts on Apollo 8 became the first men to orbit the Moon. The three-man crew was Frank Borman (Commander), James A. Lovell, Jr. (Command Module Pilot) and William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot-(pic credit-NASA)

1970 – 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie’s play “The Mousetrap” (record).

1993 – Indian PM announces Local Area Development Scheme by which each MP can sanction projects worth Rs.1 crore.

1995 – The crew of the seized Russian AN-26 aircraft in Bombay confess dropping of arms at Purulia.

1995 – 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day

celebrations of DAV Public School in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit.

2000 – The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government’s proposal to rename Calcutta as ”Kolkata”.

2002 – A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and a modern unmanned drone had engaged in combat.

2016 – United Nations Security Council adopts a landmark resolution demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. Resolution 2334 was moved by New Zealand, Malaysia, Senegal and Venezuela and passed 14-0 with a US abstention.

Born….

1902 – Chaudhary Charan Singh, freedom fighter, former Prime Minister of India and a farmers’ leader of UP .

1968 – Arbaaz Khan, Bollywood, actor,  film producer (pic credit-Forbes India).

RIP….

2000 – Noor Jehan, legendary Indian singer and actress. who shifted to Pakistan after partition (pic credit-Facebook)

2004 – PV Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India.

2013 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle bearing his name.

You may have known….

The fear of vegetables is called ‘Lachanophobia’.

 

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}