Motto for Today: ‘Go anywhere as long as it is forward.’

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

On this day, Nov.05………..

1556 – Second Battle at Panipat: Between the forces of Hemu, the Hindu general and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri, and the army of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. (Hemu had conquered Delhi a month earlier by defeating the Mughals led by Tardi Beg Khan at the Battle of Delhi and proclaimed himself Raja Vikramaditya. Akbar and his guardian, Bairam Khan, had immediately marched to Delhi to reclaim the city. The two armies clashed at Panipat not far from the site of the First Battle of Panipat of 1526. Although Hemu had lost his artillery to the Mughals before the battle, his forces held numerical superiority. However, Hemu was wounded by a chance arrow in the middle of the battle and fell unconscious. Seeing their leader going down, his army panicked and dispersed. Hemu was captured and subsequently beheaded. The battle ended in a decisive victory for Akbar).

1556 – Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humayun as Sultan of Delhi.

1891 – Polish citizen Marie Curie enrolled in the Sorbonne, France, two days before her 24th birthday. She has been out of school for 5 years, had barely enough money to survive, and even had fainted from hunger on at least one occasion in the classroom. Yet she eventually graduated at the top of her class. Then on this same day in 5 Nov 1906, she delivered her first lecture at the Sorbonne as the first female physics teacher in the school’s history. She explained the theory of ions in gases and her treatise on radioactivity to 120 students, public and press. (She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes).

1895 – George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, received the first U.S. patent for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1935 – Parker Brothers launches game Monopoly. (Monopoly is a board game and is a way to demonstrate that an economy which rewards wealth creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints and to promote ideas about taxation).

1961 – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first occasion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.

1963 – Archaeologists found Viking ruins in Newfoundland predating Columbus by 500 years.

1990 – Janata Dal splits. The breakaway group claims support of 58 Members of Parliament to elect Mr. Chandrashekhar as leader. V.P. Singh’s government loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.

1992 – The discovery chemical evidence of 5000-year-old beer found at Godin Tepein the Zagros mountains of Iran was reported in the journal Nature. Beer was the preferred fermented beverage of the ancient Sumerians. In 1991, evidence for the earliest grape wine of had been found in the same area, and to be of similar age, about 3500 – 3100 BC.

1998 – India and Pakistan agree to continue their talks on the Tulbul navigator project on the Jhelum in Kashmir, despite differences over various provisions of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960.

2006 – Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging by an Iraqi court.

2013 – The PSLV-XL rocket carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission probe is launched by India’s Space Research Organization.

Born….

1913 – Vivien Leigh, actor (born in Darjeeling).

1915 – Balasaheb Devras, SarSnghchalak of RSS.

1988 – Virat Kohli, cricketer.

RIP….

2008 – Baldev Raj Chopra, screenwriter.

2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, singer.

Tidbits….

2014 – A Van Gogh painting, ‘Still Life, Vase with Daisies, and Poppies’, sells for $61.8 million, exceeding its estimated worth of $50 million; the artist painted the work at his doctor’s home shortly before his death.

2019 – Actress Emma Watson interviewed in Vogue magazine says she is happy to be single “I call it being self-partnered” launching worldwide discussion on the term.

You may have known….   Cows have four stomachs.

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