Today’s Motto: ‘Make your life your Own Story’
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, 22 Nov ….
1497 
– Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope, on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India (Goa shore).
1914 – Indian troops (Wellesley Rifles and 117th Mahrattas) take control of Basra in Mesopotamia (Iraq).-(pic credit-hurstpublishers.com)
1920 – Jamia Millia Islamia Established. It would become a prominent univer
sity and a significant centre for the Indian independence movement.
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 (pic credit-britannica.com).
1963 – Five Indian Army Generals were killed in a helicopter crash in Poonch area.
1968 – 1st interracial TV kiss, Star Trek-Kirk and Uhura.
1968 – Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.
1986 – Mike Tyson became the world’s youngest (at 20 years 5 months) heav
yweight boxing champion after defeating Trevor Berbick.
2018 – Leaning Tower of Pisa’s tilt reduced by 4 cm in 20 year project to stabilize it. Built in the City of Pisa, Tuscany distt. of Italy in 12th century by engineers Guglielmo and Bonano Pisano, and improved later. It is about 56.67 meters height and has 296 steps. In 1990 it was fpund to have a tilt of 5.5 degrees from its horizentol apex. (pic credit- Saffron Blaze ).
1995 -Toy Story, by Walt Disney pictures, the f
irst feature-length compute
r-animated film, is released (credit-Wat Disney pictures).
Born…. 1899 – Shaheed Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader from Odisha. A Bhumia tribal leader opposed torture by British revenue and forest officials. Folloqwed Gandhian call for Disobedience in August 1942 and carried a symblic Charkha while leading his followrrs. He was arrested and hanged in Burhanpur jail on March 29, 1943.
1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh politician, founder of Samajwadi Party. Born in Saifai under Etawah distt., he was a wrestler and became teacher after doing M.A. He came in contact with socialist leader Ram 
Manohar Lohoia, Raj Narain, Chandra Shekhar and George Fernandez post freedom movement. Was elected from Mainpuri and became Uttar Pradesh thrice as Lok Dal leader. He became Union Defence Minister under PM Deve Gowda govt. in 1996 (upto 1998). He was electede to Lok Sabha 7 times and UP Assembly 10 times. He was imprisoned when Emergemcncy was promulgated by Indira Gadhi in 1975 and was in jail for 19 months. His party has a strong pro-Muslim-Yadav community following and his elder son Akhilesh heads his virasat now. He was honoured with Padma Vibhushan in 2023.
1948 – Saroj Khan, famous Bollywod chore
ographer, born as Nirmala Nagpal, she married Roshan Khan in 1975 (2nd marriage) and converted. She has done many popular mujra and dance directions in films like Tezab, Khalnayak, Devdas, Sringaram, Chaalbaz, Sailab, Beta, Jab We Met etc. and has won 5 National Film and 8 Filmfare awards for dance choreography. (pic credit-yovizag.com).
RIP…. 1773 – Robert Clive, English occupier of India. English commander who established East India Company rule in Bengal and parts of eastern India. He was also appointed Governor
of Bengal by the British Govt.
1967 – Tara Singh, freedom fighter, Akali Dal leader, master and politician. He led the Punjabi Suba movement post Independence.
You may have known…. India has a population density of 492 per sq km.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
