Today’s Motto: ‘I have yet to meet a man from whom I couldn’t learn something’
As Everyday 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, Dec.08…….
1909 – Bird banding society founded. (Bird ringing or bird banding is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification. This helps in keeping track of the movements of the bird and its life history).
1931 – The invention of coaxial cable was issued a U.S. patent for a “concentric conducting system”.
1946 -The first test in the U.S. of a snow-melting apparatus embedded in a sidewalk was made in New York City.
1970 – Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the ‘Colours’ by the Vice President of India, Shri G S Pathak, at AOC Centre, Secunderabad.
1992 – As retaliation to Ayodhya demolition, temples burnt in Pakistan and Britain. Advani, Joshi, Singhal arrested; Nation observes ‘bandh’.
1993 – The U.S. Secretary of Defence declared that the Global Positioning System, accurate within 100 meters, had 24 GPS satellites operating in their assigned orbits, available for navigation use
at Standard Positioning Service (SPS) levels for civil users (pic credit-iStock).
2000 – Indian EC nod for Paswans’s party to be known as Lok Janshakti Party.
2010 – Paris closes the Eiffel Tower due to snow.
2022 – Iran announces first known execution of a protester from recent anti-government unrest, after convicting a man in a revolutionary court of “moharebeh” (enmity against God).
Born….
1900 – Uday Shankar, film Choreographer (Pic credit-the Better Indian).
1927 – Parkash Singh Badal, fAkali Dal leader and ormer Punjab Chief Minister
1935 – Dharmendra Deol, Bollywood romantic actor.
1946 – Sharmila Tagore, popular romantic actor (video from film Chupke-Chupke, credit-Goldmines Gaane Sune Unsune)
You may have known….
8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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