Today’s Motto: ‘Doing the impossible is a special kind of fun’

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

On this day,  Dec.26………..

1854 – Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited in Buffalo (US).

1865 – James H. Mason of Franklin, was issued the first U.S. patent for a coffee percolator.

1906 – The world’s first full-length feature film, the 70-min Story of the Kelly Gang was presented in the Town Hall at Melbourne, Australia. Filmed at a cost of £450, it toured through Australia for over 20 years. It was about bandits and some some people, including politicians and police viewed the content of the film as glorifying the criminals. The movie was banned (1907). Only fragments totalling about 10 minutes of the original nitrate film have survived to the present.

1925 – The Communist Party of India is founded by MN Roy, Abani Mukherji, Evelin Trent , MPT Acharya and others.

1967 – A patent was issued to the Wham-O Mfg. Co. for their improvement of the Frisbee – an “aerodynamic toy to be thrown through the air – in throwing games.” The name began when William Russel Frisbie founded the Frisbie Pie Company in 1895. In 1948 the innovator Fred Morrison saw the students working there tossing empty pie forms to each other in their lunch break.

1975 – The Tupolev-144, the first passenger supersonic jet carried only mail and freight on its first commercial flight from Moscow to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. Although built to carry up to 140 passengers, it was at first limited to service carrying mail instead, because it was so loud. (Aeroflot ceased flying the dangerous and expensive Tupolev airplanes on 6 June 1978).

1978 – Former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail.

1985 – Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other’s country (pic credit-Hindustan Times)

1982 – The Man of the Year in Time magazine was a non-human for the first time. A computer received the honour as 1982’s “greatest influence for good or evil.”

1989 – India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean.

1989 – The Constitution 62nd Amendment Bill, seeking to extend reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for another ten years, approved in Parliament.

1991 – Jack Ruby’s gun sells for $220,000 in auction. (On November 24, 1963, he fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald while the latter was in police custody after being charged with assassinating U.S. President John F. Kennedy two days earlier). A Dallas jury found him guilty of murdering Oswald, and awarded the death penalty. Later, Ruby appealed his conviction, had it overturned and was granted a new trial. However, on January 3, 1967, as the date for his new trial was being set, Ruby became ill in his prison cell and died).

2004 – 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and edges of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.

2012 – China opens the world’s longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou.

Born….

1914 – Baba Amte, social activist, who ran a long movement for rehabilitation and care of Leprosy patients until his death in 2008 (photo credit- Maharashtra Times).

1921 – Nurul. S. Hasan, educationist and statesman.

RIP….

1530 – Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty in the Indian Subcontinent (photo credit-Pinterest)

1999 – Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India, between 25 July , 1992-1997. (photo credit -Wikipedia)

You may have known….
In cases of extreme starvation, the brain will begin to eat itself.

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