Motto for Today: ‘Friendship is like a book. It takes years to write but only a few minutes to burn.’

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

On this day, Nov.02…….

1936 – The world’s first high-definition television service began by the BBC. Its range was about 35 miles, though only 25 had been predicted. The service was opened by a televised ceremony. Regular programs thereafter were given twice a day.
1950 – Concentrated milk was first test-marketed in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware. The Seal test brand was produced by the Clover Dairy Company. Fresh milk contains about 88% water. Partial water removal concentrates the milk to one-third of its original volume yielding a heavy, creamy-looking milk. This gives benefits including improved shelf-life, reduced storage space, and lower weight saving transportation cost. The high-temperature processing of evaporated or condensed milk results in changed taste. Concentrated milk, however, is made at lower pressures and temperatures so that when water is added, it tastes like fresh whole milk with the same food values.

1950 – India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet.

1959 – The first 72-mile stretch of England’s first intercity Motorway, the M1, was opened. It included two spurs, the M10 and M45. It was built at a rate of about a mile every 8 days, and cost £16 million.

1988 – A computer “worm” unleashed by a Cornell University graduate student, Robert T. Morris, began replicating wildly, clogging thousands of computers around the country. Intended as an experimental, self-replicating, self-propagating program, Morris soon discovered that the program was infecting machines at a much faster rate than he had anticipated. When Morris realized what was happening, he sent an anonymous message, instructing programmers how to kill the worm and prevent re-infection. However, because the network route was clogged, this message did not get through until it was too late. (Morris, was later tried, fined and given probation).

2014 – The U.N. issues a report concluding that immediate global actions are needed to prevent runaway impacts of climate change; the report claims failure to act now will result in extensive future damage which will be prohibitively expensive to control.

Born….

1534 – Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru.

1871 – Kashinath Raghunath Mitra, famous editor of monthly magazine ‘Manoranjan’.

1897 – Sohrab Meharwanji Modi, theatre and film producer, director and actor.

1965 – Shahrukh Khan, actor, film producer.

1981 – Esha Deol, actor.

RIP….

1774 – Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India.

Titbits….

1924 – Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle.

You may have known….
Certain species of trees are the longest living organisms on our planet. 

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