Today’s Motto: ‘Hardships prepare ordinary men for an extraordinary destiny’

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

On this day, Dec. 11…….

1769 – Venetian blinds were patented in London by Edward Bevan.

1844 – The first dental anaesthetic, nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”) was used by Dr. John M. Riggs for a tooth extraction.

1911 – Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel prize. She had isolated radium by electrolyzing molten radium chloride. (This second prize was for her individual achievements in Chemistry, whereas her first prize (1903) was a collaborative effort with her husband, Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel in Physics for her contributions in the discovery of radium and polonium).

1958 – Wilson LG Jones became India’s first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur BilliardsChampionship (pic credit-Cue Sports India).

1967 – People’s front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established.

1967 – The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, was unveiled in Toulouse, France.

1971 – The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions – India’s ‘Red Devils’, as they are affectionately called – have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.

1991 – The Centre notifies the interim order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal directing Karnataka to release 205 tmc ft of water to Tamil Nadu.

1997 – More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan to control the Earth’s greenhouse gases.

2017 – Rahul Gandhi is elected leader of the Indian National Congress.

2019 – Climate activist Greta Thunberg is named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

2019 – India passes Citizenship Amendment Bill clearing way for citizenship for immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan but not if they are Muslim.

2022 – NASA’s Orion spacecraft returns to earth after completing Artemis I test flight around the moon in 25.5 days – record distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to carry humans
Born….

1882 – Subramanya Bharathy, most popular Tamil poet of South India, also called Mahakavi. He wrote Kaṇṇan pāṭṭu (1917; Songs to Krishna), Panchali sapatham (1912; Panchali’s Vow), and Kuyil pāṭṭu (Kyuil sonmgs)

1922 – Dilip Kumar, legendary Bollywood actor, known for Devdas, Naya Daur, Mughal-e Azam.

1931 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh “Osho”, guru of the rich.

1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, former President of India.

1969 – Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster.

RIP….

1998 – Kavi Pradeep (Ramchandra Dwivedi), best known for his patriotic song Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo written as a tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country during the Sino-Indian War of 1962.

2012 – Pt. Ravi Shankar, legendary classic composer.

You may have known….
Honeybees pollinate 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.

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