Motto for Today: Ups and downs are part of life. Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.

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

On this day, Nov.29………

1813 – A new substance – iodine – was announced at the French Institute by Nicolas Clément.

1814 – The Times in London became the first newspaper to be printed by steam power. Its hand presses were replaced by new machines invented by Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer.

1870 – Compulsory education proclaimed in England.

1897 – 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England).

1899 – Football Club Barcelona founded.

1910 – The first U.S. patent for a traffic signal was issued to Ernest E. Sirrine for a “Street Traffic System”. Sign arms were mounted crosswise on a post at a road intersection, rotating to showing “Stop” and “Proceed” signs alternately in each direction.

1929 – First flight over the South Pole.

1932 – A U.S. patent was issued for the first card game table with an automatic dealing device, to Laurens Hammond of Chicago.

1933 – 1st state liquor store authorized in US (Pennsylvania).

1944 – The first “blue baby” operation was performed successfully at Johns Hopkins University by Dr. Alfred Blalock and pediatric cardiologist Helen B. Taussig.

1945 – A Sikorsky R5 helicopter performed the first rescue from a sinking civilian vessel and the first use of a rescue winch.

1948 – Constituent Assembly of India bans discrimination against untouchables.

1962 – The British Aircraft Corporation and the major French airline company, Sud Aviation, agreed to jointly design and manufacture a 100-seat supersonic passenger airliner. Two months later, in Jan 1963, a BAC executive suggested the name “Concord” after using a thesaurus, which was adopted as Concorde, reflecting the French spelling.

1962 – Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100% of villages.

1989 – Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister after losing national elections.

2012 – New findings from MESSENGER, NASA’s space probe, indicate almost definitively, that the north pole of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has water ice buried beneath the surface.

2018 – Farmers in tens of thousands protest the agrarian crisis at parliament in Delhi.
Born….

1803 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (Doppler effect).

1962 – Sadanand Viswanath, cricketer.

1982 – Ramya, actor.

RIP….

1953 – Bahuriya Ramswaroop Devi, better known as Laxmibai of Bihar. She will be always remembered for Chhapra District Revolt, whereby she tied seven British men and threw them in Narayani River.

You may have known….

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration, which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.

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