Today’s Motto: ‘No life appears rewarding if you think too much of it’

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

On this day,  Nov.09…….

1904 – 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes.

1936 – A baby panda was caught in the bamboo forests on the mountains that separate China and Tibet, by an American hunting party. The baby panda was named Su Lin (Chinese for “A Little Bit Of Something Precious”), and bottle-fed by Harkness during her return to New York. As the first giant panda to live in captivity outside China, Su Lin caused a sensation in the media.

1948 – Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India. (Mayurbhanj State (or Morbhanj) was one of the Eastern princely states of India during the period of the British Raj. The emblem of the state were two peacocks for according to legend the ancestors of the ancient rulers originated from a peafowl’s eyes).

1957 – Gordon Gould began to write down the principles of what he called a laser in his notebook during a sleepless Saturday night. By Wednesday morning he had a notary witness and date his notebook. Therein, he had described what he called “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation,” or, from those initials, “laser.”

1961 – The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude.

1967 – Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded.

1990 – Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.

2012 – After a series of self-immolation by Tibetan monks, hundreds of Tibetan monks and students protest against education policies in China’s western Qinghai Province.

2019 – Supreme Court rules in favour of Hindus in dispute over who has right to holy site in city of Ayodhya.

2019 – Kartarpur corridor opens allowing Sikh worshippers from India to access holy site of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan without a visa.

2022 – Archaeologists announce discovery of oldest decipherable sentence on an ivory comb “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” in 1,700 B.C Canaanite script from Tel Lachish, Israel.

Born….

1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet.

1924 – Pandit Chitaman Raghunath Vyas, veteran classical musician, singer was awarded Dinanath Mangeshkar Puruskar, Sangeert Natak Academy Award and  Tansen Samman. (pic credit- Marathi Vishwakosh).

1968 – Neelam, Bollywood actor.

RIP….

1962 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer whose pioneering contribution to women’s education in India has rarely been surpassed.

2005 – KR Narayanan, 10th President of India.

2011 – H. Gobind Khorana, an Indian-American biochemist who shared (with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley) the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.”

You may have known….
Before alarm clocks people employed “knockers-up” to shoot dried peas at their windows from a blowgun to wake them up.

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