Today’s Motto: ‘If you score a goal, it matters not how clumsily you dribbled’

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

On this day, Nov.22…….
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope, on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India.
1809 – The first patent for a metallic writing pen in the U.S., issued to Peregrine Williamson, a jeweller.
1904 – The first direct current, interpole, electric motor to be patented in the U.S. was issued to Mathias Pfatischer under the title “Variable Speed Motor”.
1910 – The first U.S. patent for a steel-shafted golf club was issued to Arthur F. Knight. The new construction was to provide an elastic, yet non-fibrous shaft, in order that “the line of flight of the ball may truly conform to the direction of the blow delivered by the player.
1914 – Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia.
1927 – The first U.S. patent for a snowmobile was issued to Carl J.E. Eliason. His “motor toboggan” had ski-like front runners and a rear drive track.
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas. (Kennedy was travelling with his wife, Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade when he was

fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald from a library building. A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. (Photo credit – ullstein bild for Getty Images)
1968 – Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.
1968 – 1st interracial TV kiss, Star Trek – Kirk and Uhura.

1983 – The last wringer-washer made in the U.S., a Master Model E was built by the Maytag Company, the last U.S. company to make hand-o

perated washers.
2018 – Leaning Tower of Pisa’s tilt reduced by 4 cm in 20 year project to stabilise it.
2022 – UK faces a bigger hit to its economy from the global energy crisis than any other advanced economy according to the OECD, projected to shrink by 0.4%.
Born….1899 – Shaheed Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader.

1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, politician.
RIP….
1773 – Robert Clive, English occupier of India.
1967 – Tara Singh, freedom fighter, Akali Dal leader, master and politician.
You may have known….
Julia Robert’s smile is insured for $80 million (pic credit-Cosmopolitan)

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