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Lessons from History
Motto for Today: Strength doesn’t come from winning. It comes from struggling.
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Nov. 17..........
1797 - The first patent in the U.S. for a clock was issued to Eli Terry of East Windsor, for an equation clock. The clock had two…
Motto for Today: ‘To an ugly heart nothing can appear pretty.’
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On this day, Nov.16...........
1620 - The first corn (maize) found in the U.S. by British settlers was discovered in Provincetown, by sixteen desperately hungry…
Motto for Today: ‘Mind replays what the heart can’t delete.’
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On this day, Nov.15.......
1492 - Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco.
1744 - Gowan Knight presented his research on magnetising…
Motto for Today: ‘Go confidently in the direction of your dreams’
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On this day, Nov.14........
1666 - The English physician, Samuel Pepys, made a record in his diary describing Richard Lower making the first documented blood…
Motto for Today: ‘Confidence comes not from always being right, but not fearing to be…
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On this day, Nov.13........
1851 - The first public message was sent on the submarine telegraph cable under the English Channel between Dover, England and Calais,…
Motto for Today: ‘People aren’t against you, they are for themselves.’
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Nov.12........
1732 - Henri Pitot invented an instrument to measure the flow velocity at different depths of water in the river Seine. The belief of…
Motto for Today: ‘No time is wrong to do the right things.’
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Nov. 11........
1790 - Chrysanthemums were introduced into England from China. These hardy plants have since been found native in Japan, northern…
Motto for Today: ‘Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what gets you going.’
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Nov.10........
1698 - East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.
1885 - The world's first motorcycle,…
Stunning bronze statues found in Italy
Rome: Italian archaeologists have unearthed 24 beautifully preserved bronze statues in Tuscany believed to date back to ancient Roman times.
The statues were discovered under the muddy ruins of an ancient bathhouse in San Casciano dei…
Motto for Today: ‘Happiness is an inside job.’
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On this day, Nov.09........
1825 - Thomas Drummond made the first practical use of limelight while surveying in Ireland to enable work through misty days and…
Motto for Today: ‘Trying harder is always a better option than walking away.’
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On this day, Nov.08.......
1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen first observed X-rays during an experiment at Würzburg University. After further investigation, on 1 Jan 1896,…
Motto for Today: ‘It requires only a pebble to start a landslide.’
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On this day, Nov.07.......
1865 - London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded.
1876 - A patent for the first U.S. cigarette manufacturing machine was…
Motto for Today: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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On this day, Nov.06.... ....
1899 - James Packard and his brother, William Doud Packard, had finished building a car of their own…
Motto for Today: ‘Go anywhere as long as it is forward.’
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On this day, Nov.05...........
1556 - Second Battle at Panipat: Between the forces of Hemu, the Hindu general and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri, and the army…
Motto for Today: ‘A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.’
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On this day, Nov. 04.........
1845 - Michael Faraday, working in his laboratory at the Royal Institution, hung a piece of heavy glass between the poles of an…
Motto for Today: ‘The only unfair fight is the one you lose.’
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On this day, Nov.03......
1838 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times…
Motto for Today: ‘Friendship is like a book. It takes years to write but only a few minutes to…
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On this day, Nov.02.......
1936 - The world's first high-definition television service began by the BBC. Its range was about 35 miles, though only 25 had been…
Motto for Today: ‘It is not what you look that matters, it is what you see.’
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On this day, Nov.01.......
1800 - John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House.
1848 - The Boston Female Medical School became the first…
Motto for Today: ‘One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.’
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On this day, Oct. 31....
1876 - Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh), over 200,000 killed.
1778 - The first British…
Motto for Today: ‘Best way to avoid disappointment is to minimize expectations.’
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On this day, Oct.30........
1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.
1894 - Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, N.Y. received the first…
