Today’s Motto: ‘Tears are the language of the heart’
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, 09 Nov ….
1825 – Thomas Drummond, a Scottish engineer, army officer and surveyor, made the first practical use of limelight while surveying in Ireland to enable work through misty days and nights. He created an intense light from a lump of lime (calcium 
oxide) heated to incandescence by an oxygenated alcohol flame in front of a reflector. The light penetrated the mist. He attempted to adapt it for lighthouses, but found operation too costly. The bright light given off by heated metal oxides was first investigated in the 1820s by Goldsworthy Gurney, who created the oxyhydrogen blowpipe. Limelight was also used not only in theatres, but even for microscope illumination (pic credit-100-princes-street.com).
1904 – 1st airplan
e flight by Wright Brothers to last more than 5 minutes (pic credit-smcrep.org).
1925 – The confirmation of highly-penetrating radiation from “finite space” was announced by Americasn physicist, Robert A. Millikan, calling them “cosmic rays.” Earlier tests with high-altitude balloons, or atop mountains, remained inconclusive as to extra-terrestrial origin. The rays, he thought then, could be of local origin from radioactive materials. However, in 1925, measurements he made up to 27-m below Muir 
Lake (altitude 3540 m) and Lake Arrowhead (alt. 1530 m) showed rays reached given depths in each by comparable amounts. They were possibly were the “birth cries” of infant atoms from fusion or electron capture (pic crediy.
1936 – A baby panda was caught in the bamboo forests on the mountains that separate China and Tibet, near Tsaopo, China, by a hunting party for Ruth Harkness, 
a wealthy American socialite. The baby panda was named Su Lin (Chinese for “A Little Bit Of Something Precious”), and bottle-fed by Harkness during her return to New York. As the first giant panda to live in captivity outside China, Su Lin caused a sensation in the media (pic credit-pinterest.com).
1948 – Mayurbhanj State (in Odisha) taken over by Government of India. Spread over about 11,000 sqkm, it was under the Marathas and fell to British (EIC) army in 1829 (pic credit-odishatourism).
1957 – Gordon Gould began to write down the principles of what he called a laser in his notebook during a sleepless Saturday night. By Wednesday morning he had a notary witness and date his notebook. Therein, he had described what he called “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation,” or, from those initials, “laser.”
1961 – The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude.
1967 – Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded by Uttar Prafesh CM 
Chaudhary Charan Singh. It was merged into Janta Party in 1977.
1989 – Fall of the Berlin Wall. It was onstructed by German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1961 to secure part of Berlin under their control post division of Germany in WW-II. The people of two parts decided to reunite and the two parts of Germany opened gates on Nov. 9, 1989 for citizens to move freely to either side. Following this most of the Berlin Wall was brought down.
1990 – Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of 
Confidence moved against him.
2000 – Uttarakhand officially became the 27th state of India.
2012 – After a series of self-immolation by Tibetan monks, hundreds of Tibetan monks and students protest against education policies in China’s western Qinghai Province.
2019 – The Kartarpur Corridor is inaugurated, providing a direct link (2 km) for Sikh pilgrims to the Gurudwara Darbar Sahib from, Kartarpur in Pakistan, from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur distt.
2019 –The Supreme Court 5-judge bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi rules in favor of Hindus the right to holy site of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. The foundation for a magnificent Ram Lala Temple was laid on August 05, 2020 by Prime Minister Modi, and constructed by the Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teerath Kshetra Trust and inaugurated by the Sants and PM Modi on January 20, 2024.
Born…. 1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, who wrote the song Saare Jahan se Achcha Hindustan Hamara. His grandfather was a Sapru Pandit of Kulgam in Kashmir but converted to Islam and shifted to Sialkot. Iqbal studied in Ludwig University in Germany. He wrote books in Urdu and persian viz., Shikwa aur Jawab-e-Shikwa, The Secrets of Self, The Secrets of Selflessness, The Call of the Marching Bell, Javed Nama, Message from the east, Kulliat – e-Iqbal, Gebriel’s Wing, Gift From Hijaz and The Rod of Moses etc.
1924 – Pandit C. R. Vyas (Chintamani Raghunath), veteran singer, Bhajan and classical musician. Known for Bhajan.. Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevay, Basant Bahar etc. He was awarded Tansen Samman by Madhya Pradesh government, Dinanath Mangeshkar Puruskar, Sangeet Natak Akademy and Padma Bhiushan in 1992 and Ustad Hafiz Ali Award in 1994.
RIP…. 1962 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer, also called Maharishi Karve, whose pioneering contribution to women’s education in India has rarely been surpassed. He established a women’s college called SNDT Women’s College in Mumbai. He was honored with Bharat Ratna in1958.
2005 – K.R. Narayanan, 10th President of India from 1997-2002. (Narayanan began his career 
as a member of the Indian Foreign Service and was referred to by Nehru as “the Best Diplomat of the country”).
2011 – Hagobind Khorana, an Indian-American biochemist who shared (with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley) the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function 
in protein synthesis.”
You may have known…. 1. Polyandry: Polyandry is a form of polygamy in which a woman can have two or more husbands.
Polyandry has been practised in India and is still practised by a minority. The popular Hindu epic, Mahabharatha provides the first striking example of polyandry, Draupadi, daughter of king of Panchāla being married to five brothers.
Apart from Kinnaur, Polyandry was practised by some south Indian tribes, prevalent among 
the Todas of Nilgiris, Nairs of Travancore and Ezhavas of Malabar. While polyandrous unions have disappeared from the traditions of many of the groups and tribes, it is still practised by some Paharis especially in Jaunsar Bawar region in Northern India. Polyandry was also practiced in some areas of Africa , practiced by Kings to keep their clans together, but was later banned.
2. Long before they became fashionable accessories for sunny days, some of the earliest sunglasses 
served a far different purpose: In Chinese courtrooms, judges used dark-lensed glasses to hide their facial expressions. {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
