Today’s Motto: ‘Those wanting to enjoy a Rainbow, have to endure Rain’

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

On this day, Dec.04…….

1680 – Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th.

1791 – Britain’s Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published.

1812 – The first U.S. patent for a horse-drawn mowing machine was given to Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

1819 – A triple paper was patented in Britain by Sir William Congreve that could incorporate a coloured watermark, visible when the paper was held up to the light, to make currency harder to counterfeit. (Congreve is best known for his invention of military rockets, first used militarily, against the French, on 8 Oct 1806).

1829 – Britain abolished “suttee” in India. (Mention of the practice can be dated back to the 1st century BC, while evidence of practice by widows of kings

only appears beginning between the 5th and 9th centuries AD. The practice is considered to have originated within the warrior aristocracy in India).

1894 – George Parker was issued a U.S. patent for a fountain pen design that became the Parker Pen Company’s first major success.

1924 – Gateway of India at Apolo Bunder, Bombay, was inaugurated by Lord Riding.

1971 – The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.

1971 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.

2011 – In Koblenz, Germany, 45,000 citizens wait to return home after bomb squads diffuse World War II bombs.

2018 – First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil.2018 Research published in “Nature” and “Science” claims Native Americans had just one migration from Siberia to the New World, at most 23,000 years ago.

Born….

1858 – Chester Greenwood, American inventor and manufacturer of earmuffs, which, while a teenager, he designed and patented.

1910 – Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India between 1987-92. (Pics credit- PIB GOI)

1910 – Motilal, veteran Bollywood actor.

1919 – Inder Kumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India.

1963 – Jaaved Jaffery, veteran England and Bollywood actor.

1977 – Ajit Agarkar, Indian cricket opener batsman, bowler.

RIP….

1131 – Omar Khayyam, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer (pic credit-Edward FitzGerald).

You may have known….

A grizzly bear’s bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball.

 

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