Today’s Motto: ‘Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust’
As every day 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, Nov.29…….
1813 – A new substance – iodine – was announced at the French Institute by Nicolas Clément.
1814 – The Times in London became the first newspaper to be printed by steam power. Its hand presses were replaced by new machines invented by Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer.
1870 – Compulsory education proclaimed in England.
1944 – The first “blue baby” operation was performed successfully at Johns Hopkins University by Dr. Alfred Blalock and paediatric cardiologist Helen B. Taussig.
1945 – A Sikorsky R5 helicopter performed the first rescue from a sinking civilian vessel and the first use of a rescue winch.
1948 – Constituent Assembly of India bans discrimination against untouchables.
1962 – Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100% villages.
1989 – Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party.
2012 – New findings from MESSENGER, NASA’s space probe, indicate almost definitively, that the north pole of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has water ice
buried beneath the surface.
2018 – Tens of thousands of Indian farmers protest the agrarian crisis at Parliament in Delhi.
2021 – Jack Dorsey announces he is stepping down as CEO of Twitter, to be replaced by Parag Agrawal.
2022 – For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales call themselves Christian according to the 2021 Census.
Born….
1803 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered Doppler effect (pic credit-Wikipedia).
1901 – Sardar Sobha Singh, popular Painter.
1962 – Sadanand Viswanath, cricketer (Pic credit-Facebook).
1982 – Ramya, South cine actor.
RIP….
1953 – Bahuriya Ramswarup Devi, better known as Laxmibai of Bihar. She will be always remembered for Chapra District Revolt, whereby she tied seven British men and threw them in Narayani River.
1993 – JRD Tata, aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur and chairman of Tata Group.
You may have known….
The human body is amazingly complex, made up of 11 major organ systems, 206 bones, and more than 640 skeletal muscles. And that’s before you get to the molecular
level, where we have approximately 37.2 trillion cells.
(Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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