Motto for Today: ‘Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.’
As each day is a new beginning in one's life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Books
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Dec.10………
1845 – Civil engineer Robert Thompson patented pneumatic tyres in London.
1868 – Gas-lit traffic lights were first placed in operation at the corner of Bridge Street and New Palace Yard, London, England, atop a 22-ft high cast-iron pillar.
1901 – At the first Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, the king of Sweden distributed the first Nobel Prizes, in accordance with the will of inventor Alfred Nobel. The day was the anniversary of Nobel’s death.
1930- Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on light scattering – first Asian and non-white to win a Science Nobel.
1932 – The Indian Military Academy (IMA) was formally inaugurated by Field Marshal Sir Philip W Chetwode and was christened as “The Pioneer “.
1952 – World’s first official Family Planning program launched in India.
1954 – To determine if a pilot could eject from an airplane at supersonic speed and live, Lt. Col. John Paul Stapp, a flight surgeon, rode a rocket sled to 632 mph. At the end of the ride Stapp was stopped in 1.25 seconds which subjected him to 40 Gs. It was the equivalent of hitting a brick wall in a car travelling at 120 mph.
1992 – The Indian Central Government bans RSS, VHP, ISS, Bajrang Dal and Jamait-e-Islami.
2014 – James Watson, one of three scientists to co-discover DNA structure, has auctioned off the 1962 Nobel Prize medal he received for the achievement; Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8 million for the medal but then returned it to Watson.
2015 -Scientists at Cornell University announce world’s first IVF puppies successfully born from a surrogate dog.
Born….
1878 – Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent litterateur. He
was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as ‘Rajaji’.
1960 – Rati Agnihotri, actor.
RIP….1896 – Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish chemist and inventor who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives. Nobel amassed a huge fortune, much of which he left in a fund to endow the annual prizes that bear his name.
You may have known….
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450F.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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