Today’s Motto: ‘No one can gain anything till he is willing to lose’
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.
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This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 21 Dec….
1891 – 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1911 – Central Bank of India established by Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala and others.
1913 – 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World.
1914 – 1st feature-length silent film comedy, “Tillie’s Punctured Romance” released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin).
1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney’s first full-length (83 minutes), animated film opened in Los Angeles. Using the story adapted from Brothers Grimms’ Fairy Tales, it was the first commercially successful film of its kind.
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1970 – First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft.
2013 – Author J.K. Rowling announces plans to produce a play based on the life of her character Harry Potter; the play tells the previously untold story of life before the boy wizard goes to Hogwarts.
2016 – Indian sports drama film “Dangal” directed by Nitesh Tiwari premieres – first Indian film to earn $300 million worldwide.(photo credit-Nowrunning)
2021 – Major breakthrough in development of nuclear fission energy when experiment produces 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at JET Laboratory, UK (reported Feb 2022).
Born….
1932 – Ameen Sayani, legendary radio announcer., known for Binacca Geetmala series on Radio Ceylon (video cedit-Saregama Music).
1959 – Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Indian opener cricketer, played 49 Tests, 1549 ODIs and now plays for Chennai Super Kings (photo credit-ESPNCricinfo).
1963 – Govinda, Bollywood hero and comedy actor. who acted in Swarg Narak, Shola and Shabnam, Raja Babu, Akhiyon se Goli Mare, Coolie No. 1, etc. (photo credit-Pinterest)
1989 – Tamanna Bhatia, South and Bollywood actor.
You may have known….
It takes roughly 20 gallons of water to make a pint of beer.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
(pic credit-Gyrox Aviation)
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