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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, Nov.28………….
1895 – Frank Duryea won the first American Automobile Race in Chicago. He won the race in just over 10 hours averaging about 7.3 mph and was awarded a prize of $2,000.
1916 – 1st (German) air attack on London.
1922 – The first skywriting (in white smoke) in the U.S. was demonstrated over Times Square, New York City, by Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force.
1948 – 1st Polaroid camera sold.
2000 – Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit ‘Janashakti’ at a rally in New Delhi.
2010 – Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure.
Born….
1988 – Esha Gupta, model.
RIP….
1893 – Sir Alexander Cunningham, British army officer and archaeologist who excavated many sites in India, including Sarnath and Sanchi. He retired (1861) as a major general after 30 years of service with the Bengal Engineers and then was the first director of the Indian Archaeological Survey.
1993 – Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy (JRD) Tata was an Indian industrialist and aviator who was born to a French mother and grew up in France. Meeting pioneer Louis Blériot sparked his aviation interest. In 1925, moved to India to join the Tata Group family business, established by his great-grandfather in 1868. Over the next years, he established Tata Airmail which became Tata Airlines and then Air India.
2008 – Sandeep Unnikrishnan; was an Army officer serving in the elite Special Action Group of the National Security Guards. He was martyred in action during the Mumbai terror attacks. Was consequently awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peace time gallantry award, on 26 January 2009.
2018 – Mohammed Aziz, singer; had 20,000 songs to his credit.
You may have known….
There are more than 1.2 billion insects for every human on earth.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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