Today’s Motto: ‘Mind replays what the heart cannot delete’
As every day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Nov.16……..
1620 – The first corn (maize) found in the U.S. by British settlers was discovered in Provincetown, by sixteen desperately hungry Pilgrims at a place they named Corn Hill.
1796 – Inventor and engineer Marc Brunel was issued his first U.S. patent for his method of “Ruling Books and Paper.”
1860 – First group of Indian workers reached Natal, South Africa (Pic credit-Collections-Get Archive).
1875 – The first U.S. patent for a dental mallet, or “Electro-magnetic Dental Pluggers” was issued to William G.A. Bonwill of Philadelphia. His tooth-filling device was used to drive gold into a tooth cavity.
1958 – India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities.
1983 – Kapil Dev takes 9-83 vs WI at Ahmedabad; India still lose.
1988 – India gives full recognition to the State of Palestine.
1993 – Kashmir’s 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants’ surrender (pic credit-Maddy’s Ramblings).
2013 – Cricketeer Sachin Tendulkar scores 74 runs in the final Test innings of his career at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium.
2015 – Largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana.
2018 – CIA concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
2021 – Astronauts on board the International Space Station forced to take shelter as Russian weapons test creates 1,500 debris field.
Born….
1835 – Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi. She was named Manikarnika and was called ‘Manu’. (Correct date could be 16th or 19th Nov).
1877 – Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build “INDUS”, a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plating.
1917 – Chitragupt, film score composer who gave memorable music for films like Kali Topi Lal Rumal, Bhabhi, Ganga ki Lehren, Barkha, Mein Chup Rahungi etc.
1927 – Shreeram Lagoo, Bollywood actor.
1963 – Meenakshi Seshadri, Bollywood actor, who acted in popular films like Hero, Damini, Ghatak, Ghayal, Ghar Ho To Aisa etc.
1973 – Pullela Gopichand, Badminton player and Saina Nehwal’s coach.
1985 – Aditya Roy Kapoor, Bollywood actor.
Titbits….
1981 – Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad, who waved his bat at Dennis.
You may have known….
Capuchin monkeys pee on their hands to wash their feet.
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{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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