Today’s Motto: ‘A wise farmer makes his 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 briefly rose to 2700 m altitude, measured by a barometer.

1878 – The White House had its first telephone installed by Alexander Graham Bell himself, during the President Rutherford B. Hayes administration.

1913 – The first U.S. drive-in automobile service station opened in Pennsylvania, operated by the Gulf Refining Company.

1919 – Nancy Astor becomes to the first woman to join the British House of Commons.

1931 – The Second Round Table conference that began in London ended. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam, etc. Two committees were setup to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the 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.

1947 – In first cricket Test match between the 2 nations, India is dismissed for 58 by Australia in Brisbane; fast bowler Ernie Toshack takes 5 for 2 off 2.3 overs; Don Bradman scores 185 as Australia wins by an innings & 226 runs (pic credit-X.com).

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

1955 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.

1963 – Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union.

1965 – Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan.

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 tunnelling had begun three years earlier, on this same day in 1987. The United Kingdom and France were now linked for the first time in 8,000 years.

2019 – Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Wuhan, China.

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 (Netaji Subhas Bose & Sardar Patel pics from Delhi Museum).

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

1954 – Medha Patkar, social activist.

1980 – Mohammed Kaif,  India’s versatile batsman

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, famous cartoonist who worked for The Hindu and elsewhere (pic credit-The Logical Indian).

You may have known….

The first ever painkiller and fever reliever came from the bark of a willow tree.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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