Motto for Today: ‘Great abilities produce great virtues as well as vices.’
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.30…….
1609 – The modern face of the moon first emerged when Galileo Galilei turned his telescope toward the moon, noted the irregularities of the crescent face, and made a drawing to record his discoveries.
1875 – A U.S. patent was issued for a “Biscuit Cutter” was issued to black American inventor Alexander P. Ashbourne.
1897 – A U.S. patent for a “Device for Rolling Cigarettes” was issued to black American inventor J.A. Sweeting.
1899 – Aluminum was first used commercially in the U.S.as an electrical transmission conductor.
1924 – 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-New York).
1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, USA, Ann Hodges, 32, was bruised on the arm and hip by a meteorite that fell through the roof of her house into her living room. It smashed the case of her wooden radio and struck her as she lay resting on her sofa. The 9-lb, 6 in diameter fragment came from a larger, likely more than 150-lb, chondrite meteorite that exploded over central Alabama about 2 pm, according to reports from people in several states that saw a bright flash across the sky.
1974 – India and Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban.
2001 – Robert Tools, 59, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, US.
2016 – UNESCO adds Belgian beer to its Cultural Heritage List.
2017 – World’s longest recorded rainbow – 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei’s Yangmingshan Mountain range.
2021 – Barbados becomes a Republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state in a ceremony with Sandra Mason sworn in as the first President.
Born….
1835 – Mark Twain (real name Samuel Clemens), an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called “The Great American Novel”.
1858 – Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, Indian physicist and plant physiologist who investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy, and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials.
1874 – Winston Churchill, soldier, author and politician.
1936 – Sudha Malhotra, singer.
(Photo credit- SSPL)1962 – Irrfan Khan, actor.
RIP….
2012 – Inder Kumar Gujral, who served as the country’s 12th prime minister.
You may have known….
The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged. {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
(Feature image credit-Guinness World Records Book)
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