Today’s Motto: ‘Only a dreamer can have dreams’
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, 13 Dec….
1856 – Aluminium is the most recently (1808) discovered metal in common use. Charles Dickens predicted: “Aluminium may probably send tin to the right about face, drive copper saucepans into penal servitude, and blow up German-silver sky-high into nothing.” 1955 – India and the USSR affirm the Panchsheel. The Panchsheel Agreement, signed between I
ndia and China initially in 1954, respresents the Five Principles of Coexistence, is a set of principles to govern relations between neighbouring States. They were first signed during a meeting between PM Nehru and Chinese PM Zhou Enlai in Peking April 1954. The Agreement broke apart on June 06, 1962 when China attacked Indian borders and war started between the two.
1984 – The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, was now estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city on this day after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralise the effect.
1989 – Kashmiri militants release the daughter (Rubaiya Sayeed) of then Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their terrorist comrade
s are freed from prison. Mufti Sayeed headed the PDP and was the HM under VP Singh govt. between Dec. 6, 1989 and Nov. 10, 1990.
1999 – The Government lodges protest with the Pakistani Rangers following the discovery of a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border.
2000 – The Lok Sabha begins the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid debate.
2001 – Five gunmen from the Pakistan-based terrorist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) stormed the Parliament complex in New Delhi. A fierce 45-minute gun battle ensued with sec
urity forces. In the attack, a total of 14 people were killed, including the five terrorists. (The attack significantly heightened tensions between India and Pakistan, leading to a year-long military standoff along the border. Indian authorities arrested several suspects, and the primary conspirator, Mohammad Afzal Guru, was convicted and later hanged in 2013.
2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit, during Operation Red Dawn by US forces.
2014 – Thousands of protesters march in Washington, D.C., to protest recent killings of 
unarmed black men (Michael Brown and others in Missouri suburb) by policemen (pic credit-STLPR).
2017 – Online dictionary Merriam-Webster’s most searched word of the year is Feminism.
Born…. 1960 – Daggubati Venkatesh, veteran Telugu actor, director and producer. Madras born actor debuted with a successful film Kaliyuga Pandavulu in 1986 and followed up with Srinivasa Kalyanam, Brahma Putharudu, Prema, Dhruva Nakshatram, Bobilli Raja etc. and also did some Hindi films and established his own production house Suresh Productions, mentors Telugu Warriors in Cricket League. He has won 6 Filmfare and 5 Nandi Filom awards and many other accolades. His nephew Rana Daggubati and Naga Chaitanya are also a popular actors (pic 
credit-cinejosh.com).
1955 – Manohar Parrikar, former Defence Minister of India, a popular Goa BJP leader who was state CM for 3 terms from 2000 to 2019 and in between Union Defence Minister from 2014-17. He was an IIT qualified politician to be a Chief Minister. He was awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously.
1973 – Meghna Gilzar, the daughter of famous poet, satirist, Urdu shaayar, film lyricist, director Gulzar and popular Bengali/Bollywood heroine Rakhee Gulzar. Meghna has directed some off-beat films like Filhaal, Talwar, Raazi, Chhapaak, Just Married, Sam Bahadur, Pooranmashi, Das Kahaniyan etc. She has won a National Film award and a Filmfare.
RIP….1986 – Smita Patil, a Gujarati, Marathi and Bollywood actor. (A brilliant actress kn
own for her portrayal of strong female characters in Indian parallel cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, she had a lot more to offer art and cinema when her life was cut short at the tragically young age of 31). Her roles in Mirch Masala, Chakra, Bhumika, Ardh Satya, Shakti, Bazaar, Namak Halal, Sadgati, Awam, Dance Dance, Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai etc. brought her many laurals and awards. She won 3 Filmfare, 2 National Awards during her cinema career.
You may have known…. 1. India has 1.3-1.45 million active military personnel; China has 2.03-2.3 million. India’s significant paramilitary (over 2.5 million) makes its total manpower massive. 2. .Frozen lobsters can come b
ack to life when thawed. 2. Lobsters are found in fresh waters of sea , mainly Pacific Ocean. These also form a major
seafood world over and tropical islands (worth over $ One billion trade).
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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