Motto for Today: ‘If you care most about what other people think, happiness will always illude you.’

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

On this day, 04 Dec….

1791 – Britain’s Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published.

1819 – A triple paper was patented in Britain by Sir William Congreve that could incorporate a coloured watermark, visible when the paper was held up to the light, to make currency harder to counterfeit.

1829 – Britain abolished “suttee” in India. (The practice is considered to have originated within the warrior aristocracy in India, gradually gaining in popularity from the 10th century AD and spreading to other groups from the 12th through 18th century AD).

1894 – George Parker was issued a U.S. patent for a fountain pen design that became the Parker Pen Company’s first major success.

1924 – Gateway of India was inaugurated by Lord Riding. (The 26 meters high monument was erected to commemorate the landing of King George V and Queen Mary at Apollo Bunder on their visit to India in 1911. It was later used as a symbolic ceremonial entrance to India for Viceroys and the new Governors of Bombay).

1971 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.

2021 – New Zealand cricket spin bowler Ajaz Patel (10-119) joins Jim Laker and Anil Kumble as the only three men to take all ten wickets in a Test innings, on Day 2 of the 2nd Test against India in Mumbai.

Born….

1858 – Chester Greenwood, American inventor and manufacturer of earmuffs, which, while a teenager, he designed and patented. He had experienced very uncomfortable cold ears while skating in winter, and solved his problem with beaver fur pads on a wire frame.

1910 – Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India (1987-92).

1910 – Motilal, actor.

1919 – Inder Kumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India.

1963 – Jaaved Jaffery, actor.

1977 – Ajit Agarkar, cricketer.

RIP….

1131 – Omar Khayyam, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer. He produced a work on algebra that was used as a textbook in Persia until this century. (He is known to English-speaking readers for his “quatrains” as The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published in 1859 by Edward Fitzgerald, though it is now regarded as an anthology of which little or nothing may be by Omar).

Titbits….

1680 – Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th.

You may have known….

The global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion.

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