Motto for Today: ‘Make your bargain before beginning to plough.’

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

On this day, Dec.01……..

1783 – The first manned voyage of a hydrogen balloon, Paris.

1857 – A U.S. patent was issued to Ephraim Ball for his mower design, which became the first widely successful of the two-wheeled flexible or hinged bar mowers.

1878 – The White House had its first telephone installed by Alexander Graham Bell himself. The first outgoing call went to Bell, thirteen miles away.

1913 – The first U.S. drive-in automobile service station opened in Pennsylvania.

1931 – The Second Round Table conference in London ended. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and M.A. Jinnah etc. Two committees were setup to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was a member of both committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Jinnah be incorporated in the future constitution.

1953 – Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine’s 1st centerfold.

1963 – Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union.

1955 – Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested, sparking a 381-day bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1965 – Border Security Force was raised.

1988 – Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country, Pakistan.

1990 – British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel finally met in the service tunnel after knocking out a passage large enough to walk through and shake hands, 22.3 km from the UK and 15.6 km from France. The United Kingdom and France were now linked for the first time in 8,000 years.

2021 – Tel Aviv named the world’s most expensive city for the first time ahead of Singapore and Paris, with Damascus the cheapest.

Born….

1761 – Marie Tussaud, French founder of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. (Feature image credit-Dreamstime)

1894 – Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab.

1954 – Medha Patkar, social activist.

RIP….

1866 – Sir George Everest, a Welsh military engineer who worked on the trigonometrical survey of India providing the accurate mapping of the subcontinent.

1990 – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician.

2002 – Abu Abraham, visual artist.

You may have known….

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

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