Motto for Today: ‘It is not what you look that matters, it is what you see.’

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

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 medical school in the world exclusively for women, opened for 12 students. Founded by Samuel Gregory, who disapproved of male doctors attending childbirth, its early curriculum focused on midwifery.

1858 – Her Majesty Queen Victoria was no longer amused with the Company’s loss of control, and India came directly under the Crown of ‘Princes, Chiefs and People of India’. Britain Government took over administrative powers from East India Company to rule India.

1879 – The world’s first all-steel railroad bridge was placed in service over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri, US. By the 1890’s nearly all new bridges were all-steel. The Glasgow bridge was replaced for heavier traffic by a new bridge in 1900 reusing some of the substructure, but with Parker truss spans.

1901 – Dr. J.E. Gillman announced an X-ray treatment for breast cancer.

1917 – In WW I, the 1st U.S. soldiers are killed in combat.

1931 – Synthetic rubber was introduced by Dupont.

1932 – Wernher von Braun was named head of the German liquid-fuel rocket program. By 1934, he was building rockets along with artillery Captain Walter Dornberger and a team of 80 engineers. In Dec 1934, he had his first success with an A2 rocket powered by ethanol and liquid oxygen.

1939 – A rabbit conceived by artificial impregnation, was the first such animal in the U.S. to be displayed. Dr. Gregory Pincus, an American biologist, had removed an egg from the ovary of a female rabbit and fertilized it with a salt solution. The egg was then transferred to the uterus of a second rabbit, which functioned as an “incubator.”

1948 – An Indian brigade group supported by the 7th Cavalry (Stuart tanks) broke through the Great Himalayan Range at Zojila to drive out the invaders from Ladakh district. At approximately 3,500 metres, this was the highest point in the history of warfare that tanks had operated.

1952 – In the first United States test of a thermonuclear device, a hydrogen bomb dubbed “Mike,” was exploded at Eniwetok Atholl in the Pacific. It exploded with a blinding white fireball more than three miles across, completely obliterating Elugelab, leaving an underwater crater a 6240-ft wide and 164-ft deep in the atoll where an island had once been. Eighty million tons of soil were lifted into the air by the blast. The yield was several million tons of TNT. It was a thousand times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a blast greater than all the explosives used during WW II. The mushroom cloud rose to top out in 5 mins at 135,000 ft (the top of the stratosphere) and eventually spread to 1000 miles wide. (Within nine months, Russia tested their own H-bomb).

1954 – India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements.

1956 – Indian Government re-organises the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. (in 1973 Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka).

1956 – Kerala state is formed.

1966 – Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh territory created.

1984 – Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi. US Secretary of State George Shultz, who attended Indira Gandhi’s funeral, assured the new Prime Minister of US interest in a “strong and stable India.” US-India relations had been strained recently because of United States support for Pakistan. Shultz called for a “renewed positive trend” in relations.

1985 – Helicopter Corporation of India, later renamed Pawan Hans Limited, started functioning.

1990- Rhetoric escalates as George Bush likens Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler.

1993 – The Maastricht Treaty, the Treaty on European Union comes into effect.
Born….

1863 – George Safford Parker, an American inventor who perfected the fountain pen and founded the Parker Pen Company to manufacture it.

1965 – Padmini Kolhapure.

1973 – Aishwarya Rai, actor.

1973 – Tisca Chopra, actor.

1974 – Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman, cricketer.

Titbits….

1896 – 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag.

2018 – Google employees stage mass walkout to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment.

You may have known….
One human year is the same as seven dog years. A dog’s age actually slows down after the first two years of its life. Otherwise, it varies between breeds.

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