Motto for Today: ‘Forces can bend heads but not minds.’
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, Dec. 21………….
1891 – 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1911 – Central Bank of India established.
1913 – 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World.
1914 – 1st feature-length silent film comedy, “Tillie’s Punctured Romance” released.
1933 – Dried human blood serum was prepared for the first time in the U.S. at the school of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. .
1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney’s first full-length (83 minutes), animated film opened in Los Angeles, California. Using the story adapted from Brothers Grimms’ Fairy Tales, it was the first commercially successful film of its kind.
2013 – Author J.K. Rowling announces plans to produce a play based on the life of her character Harry Potter.
2021 – Major breakthrough in development of nuclear fission energy when experiment produces 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at JET Laboratory, UK (reported Feb 2022).
Born….
1932 – Ameen Sayani, radio announcer.
1959 – Krishnamachari Srikkanth, cricketer.
1963 – Govinda, actor.
Titbits….
2016 – Indian sports drama film “Dangal” premieres – first Indian film to earn $300 million worldwide.
You may have known….
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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