Today’s Motto: ‘In a crisis, the meek see danger, the bold see opportunity’
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.24…….
1434 – Thames River freezes. This may be the first recorded freezing. Thames freezes often and frost fares – a cross between a Christmas market, circus and illegal rave – are held.
1859 – The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin’s groundbreaking book, was published in England to great acclaim.
1874 – The first U.S. patent for barbed wire was issued to Joseph F. Glidden. This product would transform the West. Before this innovation, settlers on the treeless plains had no easy way to fence livestock away from cropland, and ranchers had no way to prevent their herds from roaming far and wide. Barbed wire opened the plains to large-scale farming, and closed the open range, bringing the era of the cowboy and the round-up to an end.
1903 – The first U.S. patent for an automobile electric self-starter was issued to Clyde J. Coleman
1930 – 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight, Miss Ruth Nichols.
1941 – Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar.
1954 – Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened.
1963 – 1st live murder on TV – Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald. (Oswald had assassinated President Kennedy).
1989 – Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty at an age of 16 years 214 days, a record.
1992 – It was decided that Lok Sabha session would start with the national song “Vande Mataram” and end with National Anthem “Jana Gana Mana”.
2011 – Indian government relaxes rules relating to the operation of foreign-owned retailers such as Wal-Mart and Tesco within India.
2019 – Data leaked from Chinese high-security Muslim Uighur security camps, housing 1 million people, show systematic brainwashing in western Xinjiang region.
2021 – Sweden’s first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns after 12 hours in the job after her coalition government falls apart.
Born….
1881 – Sir Chhotu Ram, politician. (Born Ram Richpal; was a prominent politician in British India’s Punjab Province, an ideologue of the Jat peasantry and a champion of its interests. He was knighted in 1937 and was a co-founder of the National Unionist Party).
1935 Salim Khan, Bollywood screenwriter (pic credit-BookMyShow).
1943 – Montek Singh Ahluwalia, economist former VC, Planning Commission.
1944 – Amol Palekar, veteran actor who acted in jubilee films like Chhoti Si Baat, Chit Chor, Gol Maal, Rang Birangi (photo credit-India TV News).
1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian activist and writer (The God of Small Things).
RIP….
1665 – Guru Teg Bahadur, ninth Sikh Guru who was assassinated by Aurangzab in 1675. Gurudwara Mata Gujri, 
Gurudwara Sisganj, Gurudwara Rakabganj were raised in his memory (pic credit-SikhNet).
2003 – Tuntun, Bollywood singer, comedy actor (real name Uma Devi Khatri, who acted in films like Dard, Babul, Udan Khatola, C.I,D., Pyasa, Shama, Chaudhvun ka Chaand, Kohinoor, Geet, Kaagaz Ke Phool etc.
You may have known….
When you blush, the inside of your stomach does too.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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