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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
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On this day, Dec.15……..
1803 – East India Company captured Orrisa state.
1854 – Philadelphia greeted the first practical street cleaning machine. A series of brooms attached to a cylinder mounted on a cart was turned by a chain driven by the turning of the cart’s wheels.
1903 – A U.S. patent was issued for an ice cream cup mould to Italo Marchiony.
1916 – French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun. (The Battle of Verdun was one of the largest and longest battles of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies).
1939 – Nylon yarn was sold to hosiery mills to make women’s stockings; marking the first use of commercial yarn for apparel.
1964 – 1st time 4 people in space.
1973 – American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness.
2000 – The ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear plant was ceremoniously permanently shut down in Ukraine – more than 14 years after one of its reactors exploded in the world’s worst civil nuclear catastrophe on 26 Apr 1986.
2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, was reopened to the public after a $27 million realignment that took over a decade.
2018 – Diplomats from 200 countries agree to a set of rules to implement the UN Paris Climate Agreement in Katowice, Poland.
2019 – Protests against India’s new citizenship bill that excludes Muslims, erupt across major cities; at least five died.
Born….
1832 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer who specialized in metal structures, known especially for the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1924 – Nek Chand (Saini). He was a self-taught artist, known for building the Rock Garden, an eighteen-acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh.
1951 – Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne, former Indian Air Chief.
1976 – Baichung Bhutia, footballer.
RIP….
1950 – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India and Bharat Ratna awardee. Also known as the ‘Iron Man’, he played a vital role in integrating India into a united country.
You may have known….
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
{Compiled by Lt. Ge. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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