Motto for Today: ‘No time is wrong to do the right things.’

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

On this day, Nov. 11……..

1790 – Chrysanthemums were introduced into England from China. These hardy plants have since been found native in Japan, northern Africa, and southern Europe. Their flowers come in every colour except blue. Their blooms come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes. Some are spherical in shape and have incurved petals at the centre. Some have tubular-shaped

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petals of unequal length with little hooks at the end. Spoon Chrysanthemums have rather flat petals that are spoon-shaped at the end. Anemone Chrysanthemums have fairly flat, thin petals with shorter tubular petals in the centre.

1851 – The first U.S. patent for a telescope design was issued to Alvan Clark of Cambridge.

1865 -Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

1935 – A record 72,395 feet was reached by Lt. Col. Albert William Stevens and Capt. Orvil Anderson, by helium balloon in a sealed gondola, Explorer II. This set a substratosphere record that stood for 21 years.

1968 – Maldives becomes a republic.

1998 – India objects to Washington’s discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries.

2014 – Ford Motor Company begins using aluminum instead of steel in the body of its most popular truck, the F-150; the change has cost the company time and money in conversion of production lines but will make the vehicle more fuel efficient.

2021 – Near-earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa, the size of a ferris wheel, very likely a fragment of the moon, according to a new study.

Born….

1888 – Abul Kalam Azad, writer. (He was the first Education minister of independent India. National Education Day of India is celebrated on 11 November every year in his honour.).

1918 – K.K. Birla, industrialist.

1923 – Johnny Walker, actor.

1924 – Rusi Sheriyar Modi, cricketer (Indian batsman in post-War years).

1936 – Mala Sinha, actor.

1953 – Boney Kapoor, film producer.

1956 – Talat Aziz, singer.

1979 – Raima Sen, actor.

1985 – Robin Uthappa, Cricketer

You may have known….

A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

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