Today’s Motto: ‘Winners win because they are not afraid of losing’
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, Nov.30……..
1609 – The modern face of the moon first emerged when Galileo Galilei turned his telescope toward the moon, noted the irregularities of the crescent face, and made a drawing to record his discoveries.
1899 – Aluminum was first used commercially in the U.S.as an electrical transmission conductor.
1924 – 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-New York).
1974 – India and Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban.
2001 – Robert Tools, 59, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, US. Five months earlier, on 2 Jul 2001, doctors at wish Hospital in Louisville had implanted the AbioCor heart replacement. He died of internal bleeding and organ failure after living with the
device whirring in his chest for 151 days. Doctors said the death was not caused by problems with the AbioCor heart device.
2016 – UNESCO adds Belgian beer to its Cultural Heritage List.
2017 – World’s longest recorded rainbow – 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei’s Yangmingshan mountain range.
2022 – Artificial intelligence Chatbot ChatGPT prototype released by A.I. lab OpenAI, is able to answer complex questions, write poetry and mimic some human emotions.
Born….
1835 – Mark Twain [real name Samuel Clemens], an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “The Great American Novel”.
1858 – Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, Indian physicist and plant physiologist who investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy, and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials.
1874 – Winston Churchill, soldier, author and English politician who ruled England during World War II.
1936 – Sudha Malhotra, popular Bhajan and cine singer. She married Girdhar Motwani, owner of Chicago Radio (pic credit-Chinar Shade; video -Prem Rog, Music Sangeet)
1962 – Irrfan Khan, Bollywood actor (pic credit-BookMyShow).
RIP….
1630 – 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague.
2012 – Inder Kumar Gujral, who served as the country’s 12th prime minister.
You may have known….
A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five pickup trucks.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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