Motto for Today: ‘Before standing firm make sure your feet are in the right place.’
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.29……..
1837 – Steam-powered threshing machine patented in US.
1885 – A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
1939 – William Shockley wrote in his laboratory notebook: “It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible. He went on to develop the transistor, for which he shared (with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain) the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1959 – Durgapur Iron Plant in West Bengal was inaugurated.
1965 – First In-made tank ‘Vijayanta’ rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory
1997 – Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics.
Born….
1800 – Charles Goodyear- American inventor who baked rubber mixed with sulphur and discovered the vulcanization process which made rubber practical as a commercial product.
1900 – Dinanath Mangeshkar, singer.
1917 – Ramanand Sagar, film producer.
1942 – Rajesh Khanna, actor.
1974 – Twinkle Khanna, actor.
RIP….
1938 – Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor.
You may have known….
A human kidney contains more than one million nephron tubes which measure 40 miles in total length.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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