Today’s Motto: ‘The harsh reality is, a boo is much louder than a cheer’

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

On this day, Dec.14……..

1656 – Modern-day imitation pearls were first manufactured by the Frenchman Jacquin, a rosary-bead maker.

1798 – The first U.S. patent for a nut and bolt machine, (for cutting screw threads) was issued to inventor David Wilkinson of Rhode Island.

1807 – A meteorite to be recorded in the U.S. fell at Weston, Connecticut making a hole 5-ft long and 4.5-ft wide.

1901 – 1st table tennis tournament is held  at London Royal Aquarium (pic credit-A London Inheritance)

1902 – First cable across the Pacific Ocean was laid.

1960 – Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms.
1971 The Pakistan Army executes an estimated 1,111 of East Pakistan’s intellectuals during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

1986 – Voyager, the experimental aircraft piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed its nine-day non-stop, non-refuelled flight around the world. The trip took nine days. During its 25,000-mile flight, Voyager flew at an average speed of 115.8 mph. This flight nearly doubled the previous distance record set in 1962 by a USAF/Boeing B-52H.

2013 – Sdtructural biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is named as one of the 25 Greatest Global Living Indians by NDTV Channel, India.

2016 – Amazon announces its 1st delivery by drone 2 km from their warehouse in the UK.

2020 – Russia revealed to have been behind massive cyberattack on US government agencies and private companies since the Spring.

Born….

1924 – Raj Kapoor, actor and film maker. (Known as the greatest showman of Indian cinema, actor, director and producer. He produced 18 movies and directed 10. (photo credit-Urban Asian; Video credit-Zee Music Co).

1934 – Shyam Benegal, legendary Bengali and Bollywood film director who produced/directed Mujib, Manthan, Ankur, Nishant, Junoon and Discovery of India serial. (pic credit-Readers Digest India).

1936 – Biswajit (Chatterjee), legendary Bollywood actor acted in April, Kohraa, Kismat etc.

1946 – Sanjay Gandhi, politician., younger son of Indira Gandhi, famous for Emergency era decisions by PM Indira (pic credit-Wikipedia)

1953 – Vijay Amritraj, legendary India tennis player who won 8 doubles and 10 mixed Dopuble tennis t itles and has Grand Slams to his credit (pic credit-Mukesh Kumar Saini for MIB, GOI)

1982 – Sameera Reddy, Bollywood actor.

RIP….

1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, American physician and health-food pioneer whose development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry.

2013 – British actor Peter O’Toole, known for playing Lawrence, in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.

You may have known….

The technical term for an ice cream headache is ‘Sphenopalatine Ganglione uralgia’.

 

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