Today’s Motto: ‘If you want to know how good a person is, read his autobiography’

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

On this day,  Dec. 20……..

1880 – New York’s Broadway was first lighted by electricity and became known as the “Great White Way.”

1883 – International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls (pic credit-David Mark Decherd).

1951 – At 1:50 pm, the first electricity ever generated by atomic power began flowing.

1971 – Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns.

1988 – The Indian Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.

1990 – India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other’s nuclear installations.

1993 – India and Council of European Union sign a co-operation agreement in Brussels.

2010 – The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology announces it has developed the first ever spherical robot with telescopic arms.

2018 – New figures show average US male weighs 198 pounds and stands 5 feet 9 inches, women 171 pounds and 5 feet 4 inches.

2019 – United States Space Force founded, an armed forces branch dedicated to space warfare.

2022 – The ruling Taliban suspend university education for female students in Afghanistan, part of a wider crackdown on women’s rights in the country.

Born….

1868 – Harvey S Firestone, was an American industrialist who developed straight-side pneumatic tyres used on the Model T Fords. His innovations in the industry changed the design and production of pneumatic tyres, including non-skid tyre treads, low-pressure balloon tyres, and farm tractor tyres (pic credit-Wikipedia)

1970 – Sohail Khan, film producer./actor.

RIP….

1993 – Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, an outstanding and decorated officers of the Indian Army. When his convoy was ambushed by Naga rebels, Col NJ Nair displayed indomitable courage in leading the attack personally to break the ambush and sacrificed his life defending his men. For this supreme act of valour, he was conferred the ‘Ashoka Chakra’. Earlier in 1983, in Mizoram, Col Nair engaged the insurgents in close quarter combat and was awarded the Kirti Chakra in recognition of his exceptional gallantry.

2010- Nalini Jaywant, legendary Bollywood actor (photo credit-Paul Popper for Getty Images).

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