Today’s Motto: ‘Always avoid giving an order that can’t be obeyed’

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

On this day, 07 Nov….

1865 – London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded.

1876 – A patent for the first U.S. cigarette manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City.

1918 – Robert Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform. Goddard began work for the Army in 1917 to design rockets to aid in the war effort.

1946 – The first U.S. coin-operated television to be publicly exhibited was first displayed.

1956 – The United Nations deployed an emergency force of peacekeepers into Egypt to halt the Suez Crisis.

1971 – India admits forces ente red Bangladesh to silence artillery.

1990 – National Front Government headed by V. P. Singh loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha (151-356). Singh tenders his resignation and this is the end of 11-month-old National Front Government.

1995 – India opens second consulate in UK in Glasgow (first being at Birmingham).

2019 – mHumans 1st walked upright 12 million years ago (not 6 million as previously thought), according to study a new species of ape found in Bavaria, Germany, published in “Nature”.

Born….

1867 – Marie Curie, a Polish-French chemist and physicist who won two Nobel prizes in 1903 and 1911. She died of radiation poisoning from her pioneering work before the need for protection was known.

1888 – Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering; It is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.

1954 – Kamal Haasan, Tamil actor, who created a romantic sensation on debut movie Ek Duje Ke Liye, with Rati Agnihotri in 1981.  Became later film producer, screenwriter,  director, choreographer, singer, lyricist, philanthropist, composer and also lanuched a political party in his state, which could not move much. He acted also in Sadma, Chachi 420, He Ram, Virumandi, Vishwaroopam,Kalathoor  etc.  He was awarded Padma Bhushan, President’s  Gold Medal and 20 Filmfare awards. (Title song had 37.5M subscribers is credit Rajshri , pic credit-Pinterest)

1969 – Nandita Das, Bollywood and Bengal actor. Known for films Fire, Earth, Before the Rains  etc. Won a prizr on debut.

1971 – Rituparna Sengupta, successful and Bengali and Bollywood actor/producer. Woreked in Mein, Meri Patni asur Voh, Sasurbari Zindabad etc.

1973 – Kiran Rao, former wife of veteran actor Amir Khan  (2005-2021). Also film director/producer. Produced Talaash, Dangal, Bombai Ghat, Laapta Ladies etc. Won a Filmfare, Zee Cine and other awards.

RIP….

1862 – Bahadurshah Jafar -II, last Mughal emperor of India. Also led 1958 Struggle for Freedom against   Brotish army for sometime. Died at Rangoon in British prison in .

You may have known….

Ethnicity: The mixture of different peoples, indigenous and foreign, has created in India what can only be described as an Indian ethnicity. Although Indians share biological traits, they vary greatly in physical appearance. For example, in the northwest, people are more fair in colour, whereas in the northeast the inhabitants of the Himalayan regions resemble the Burmese and Tibetans. Many south Indians are generally of darker complexion. Therefore, these distinctions have led some to believe that North Indians are of European descent and Southern Indians are of African descent.

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