Today’s Motto: ‘To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart’

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

On this day, 16 Nov….

1620 – The first corn (maize) found in the U.S. by British settlers.  The food came from a previously harvested cache belonging to a local Indian tribe.

1801 – 1st edition of New York Evening Post.

1860 – First group of 342  Indian worker’s reached Natal, South Africa by ship as plantation workers (pic credit-Al Jazeera).

1875 – The first U.S. patent for a dental mallet, or “Electro-magnetic Dental Pluggers” was issued to William G.A. Bonwill of Philadelphia. His tooth-filling device was used to drive gold into a tooth cavity. (He derived the idea from observing the sounder of a telegraph key.

1958 – India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities.

1988 – India gives full recognition to the state of Palestine when Yasser Arafat was the Chairman/President  of PLO. (map credit-iStocks).

1993 – Kashmir’s 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants’ surrender.

2013 – Cricketeer Sachin Tendulkar scores 74 runs in the final Test innings of his career at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium.

2014 – Chocolate manufacturers state that a cocoa-pod fungus and dry weather in cocoa-growing regions have created a shortage of cocoa that may increase in the future; world chocolate demand already exceeds production capacity.

2015 – Largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana.

2018 – CIA concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Born….

1835 – Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi. She was named Manikarnika and was called ‘Manu’. (correct date could be 16th or 19th Nov).

1877 – Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build “INDUS”, a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plating.

1917 – Chitragupt  (Srivastava),  classical film music composer of 1950s-60s He composed for Bhabhi, Barkha, Mein Chup Rahoongi,  Oonche Log etc. . He also did music for Punjabi, Gujarati and Bhjpuri films. His sons Anand-Milind ae also well-known musicians.(video  credit-HD Song Bollywood)

1927 – Dr. Shreeram Lagoo, a Marathi theatre personality and  popular  Bollywood actor who left medical practice and took over his passion for acting. He acted in over 350 films like Pinjra, Saamna, Kathputli, Bhingra, Gupchup, Nagrit, Shasan in Marathi and Ponga Pandit, Raeeszada, Chalte Chalte, Des Pardesh, Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan, College Girl, Kashish, Insaaf Ka Tarazu, Prof. PyaareLal, Sautan, Sadma, Gharaunda etc. He was nominted to  2 Filmfare award and won for Gharaunda, Sahitya Akademi. Kalidas Samman and Padam Shri.

1963 – Meenakshi Seshadri, popular Bollywood  herine who acted in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil films like  Painter Babu, Hero,  Ghayal, Ghatak, Shehnshah, Ghar Ho to Aisa, Duet, Meri Jung, Karan Arjun, Jurm, Damini  etc.  She won Filmfares 3 times and Lux Awards.

1973 – Pullela Gopichand, Badminton player, 2nd to win All England Badminton in 2001  after Prakash Padukone and won other awards. He now has a  coaching academy..

1985 – Aditya Roy Kapur, model, VJ  and actor. Known for roles in Aashiqui,  London Dreams,  Malang, OK Jaanu, Fitoor, Gumrah, Metro In Dino etc. He won a Filmfare in supporting role (pic credit-StarsUnfolded).

You may have known….

The Longest and Worst  Traffic Jam lasted for more than 12 days across 100 km, with cars only moving 1 km a day.  This happened between China National Highway G110 and Beijing-Tibet expressway, in Hebei and Inner Mongolia, which took place on 14 August 2010. Local sellers took full advantage of the situation and started selling the basic needs at inflated prices.

Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}