Today’s Motto: ‘Genius and madness are co-travellers’
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.28…….
1582 – The acclaimed English poet and writer William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.
1895 – Frank Duryea won the first American Automobile Race in Chicago. With his brother Charles, Duryea invented the first automobile that was actually built and operated in the United States. On the day of the race, at 8:55 a.m., six “motocycles” left Chicago’s Jackson Park for a 54 mile race through the snow. Duryea’s Number 5 won the race in just over 10 hours averaging about 7.3 mph and was awarded a prize of $2,000.
1916 – 1st (German) air attack on London (pic credit-BBC).
1922 – The first skywriting in the U.S. was demonstrated over Times Square, New York City, by Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force. Flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet, he wrote letters in white smoke a half-mile high. The smoke was formed by oil, controlled by levers, dropped on the plane’s hot exhaust pipe. The message in the sky was, ‘Hello, U.S.A. Call Vanderbilt 7200’. (Turner first used skywriting for advertising for a newspaper’s name, Daily Mail, over England in May 1922).
2000 – Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit ‘Janashakti’ at a rally in New Delhi.
2010 – Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure.
2017 – Supreme Court rejects appeal to block global release of controversial film “Padmavati”.
2020 – Thousands of farmers begin entering Delhi to protest proposed agriculture reforms.
2022 – Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is ‘gaslighting’ while Collins’ is ‘permacrisis’.
Born….
1988 – Esha Gupta, model and Cine actor. Acted in Raaz 3, Jannat 3, Chakravuh, Total Dhamal etc. (pic credit-Indian Girls Villa)
1988 – Yami Gautam, model TV actor, flamboyant Bollywood film actor, who acted in films like Vicky Donor, Uri the Surgical Strike, Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga, A Thursday, OMG 2 (pic credit-The Vogue) .
RIP….
1893 – Sir Alexander Cunningham, British army officer and archaeologist who excavated many sites in India, including Sarnath and Sanchi. He retired (1861) as a major general after 30 years of service with the Bengal Engineers and then was the first director of the Indian Archaeological Survey.
1993 – Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy (JRD) Tata was an Indian industrialist and aviator who was born to a French mother and grew up in France. Meeting pioneer Louis Blériot sparked his aviation interest. In 1925, moved to India to join the Tata Group family business, established by his great-grandfather in 1868. Over the next years, he established Tata Airmail which became Tata Airlines and then Air India. (Now it is back with Tatas).
2008 – Sandeep Unnikrishnan; was an Army officer serving in the elite Special Action Group of the National Security Guards. He was martyred in action during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Was consequently awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peace time gallantry award.
2018 – Mohammed Aziz, singer; had 20,000 songs to his credit.
You may have known….
The Cuvier’s beaked whale can hold its breath for more than 3 hours at a time.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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