Today’s Motto: ‘Blowing off another’s candle does not make yours shine better’

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

On this day, 25 Nov….

1789 – 1st US national Thanksgiving Day.

1832 – The first horse drawn American street car in the U.S. began public operation in New York City.

1922 – Archaeologist Howard Carter pierced the second of two doorways closing the tomb of King Tutankamun. Carter made archaeological history by unearthing the first Egyptian pharaonic tomb that still contained most of its treasures. Carter recorded in his notes, “…we made a tiny breach in the top left-hand corner to see what was beyond.” On this day, Carter and his backer Lord Carnarvon saw the Antechamber through this hole, where “…the interior of the chamber gradually loomed before one, with its strange and wonderful medley of extraordinary and beautiful objects heaped upon one another.”

1948 – 1st polaroid camera sold in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store.

1949 – India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic. “We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign, Socialist,  Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens JUSTICE: social, economical and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity and to promote among them all; FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the nation”).  The word Secular was added later in 1976. 

1952 – 1st modern 3-D movie “Bwana Devil,” premieres in Hollywood.

1960 – First S.T.D. system of telephone (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) services started between Lucknow and Kanpur.

2008 – Mumbai terrorist attacks over four days. (10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organization based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days at several places  across Mumbai, mainly Taj Palace, Bakery, Oberoi Trident, Chhatrpati Maharaj Terminus, Leopid Cafe, and Cama Hospital etc. . About 164 (some say 189) people were killed and at least 308 wounded including foreigners over 4 day seizer by LeT operatives.. Ajmal Kasab who was captured alive, disclosed that the attackers were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, among others. The Government of India said that the attackers came

from Pakistan, and their controllers were in Pakistan. On 7 January 2009, Pakistan confirmed the sole surviving perpetrator of the attacks was a Pakistani citizen. On 9 April 2015, the foremost ringleader of the attacks, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, was granted bail against surety bonds of ₨ 200,000 in Pakistan).

Born….

1914 – Ranbir Singh Hooda, freedom fighter,  politician . He was Member of Constituent Assembly and Minister in undivided Punjab and later Haryana. He was the father of former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

1924 – Jasubhai Motibhai  Patel,  (Indian off-spinner, He scalped  9-69 v Australia in 1959. He was awarded Padam Shri by Govt. of India..

1972 – Arjun Rampal,  model, Tollywood  and Bollywood actor. Has acted in about 40 films like Dil Ka Rishta, Dil Hai Tumhara, Pyar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, Om Shanti Om etc. Has won a National Film, a Filmfare and more awards.

RIP….

1836 – John Loudon McAdam, the inventor of of macadamized roads (Scottish).

2005 – Gopal Vinayak Godse. He was the younger brother of Nathuram Godse and one of the conspirators in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on 30 January 1948. He was the last among them to survive and lived his last days in Pune.

2008 – Hemant Kamalakar  Karkare IPS. Joint Commissioner Mumbai Police was martyred while fighting  Pakistan based 10  LeT  terrorists who had  sneaked into India  and seized  Taj Hotel Mumbai  on Nov. 26, 2008. About 189 persons were killed and over 308 wounded.  Terrorist Ajmal Kasab was caught and hanged later.

You may have known….

There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the Unites States.

 

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