Today’s Motto: ‘If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self’

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

On this day,  Dec.22…….

1851 – The first freight train  (Maal Gaadi) is operated in Roorkee.

1870 – Jules César Janssen flew in a balloon in order to study the solar eclipse. Using the balloon he escaped the German siege of Paris to study the eclipse in Algeria. He reached Oran, Algeria, but the eclipse was clouded out.

1882 – The first string of electric lights decorating a Christmas tree was created for his home by Edward H. Johnson, an associate of Thomas Edison. Previously, trees had been decorated with wax candles.

1939 – When Britain declared war against the Germans it appealed for help from all Indian political parties. Congress put up some conditions which in other words were the immediate transfer of power. The Viceroy promised to give due consideration to the suggestions of each party and that the dominion status would be given after the war. Congress in order to pressurise the Govt boycotted all ministries and started a civil disobedience movement and eventually resigned. Jinnah declared 22nd Dec 1939 as “Day of Deliverance”.

1968 – The first U.S. live telecast from a manned spacecraft in outer space was transmitted at 3:01 p.m. from Apollo VIII. The earth appeared as a blurred ball of light. The craft was 139,000 miles from earth, 31-hr 20-min after launch. the previous day.

1987 – U.S. scientists say a single gene may decide the sex of a baby.

2000 – Three Army soldiers die in an attack by a suicide squad of Lakshar-e-Taiba at the Red Fort in Delhi leading to a 45-minute gun-battle.

2013 – A security news site reports that the credit and debit card account stolen from 40 million Target Corpor

ation customers are up for sale on the black market; cards are being sold from around $20 to more than $100 each.

Born….

1666 – Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Sikh Guru, who established Khalsa Panth in 1699, to protect his disciples, Hindus and women from Mughal tyrannies (photo credit-Learn Religions).  

1887 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician who did notable work on hypergeometric series and continued fractions.

1986 – Tanmay Mishra, cricketer.

RIP:  

1880 – George Eliot, British novelist died of Kidney failure.

1943 – Beatrix Potter, English children’s  writer, painter and illustrator.

2019 – Ram Dass, (right pic) famous Indo-American writer,  spiritual Guru, lecturer at Harvard and Univ. of California. lived in Boston, USA.

You may have known….

Your brain can survive for five to 10 minutes without oxygen.

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