Today’s Motto: ‘Those who believe they look funny on a horse, can hardly lead a cavalry charge’
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, 21 Nov….
1783 – Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier, a professor of physics and chemistry, and the Marquis Francois Laurant d’Arlandes became the first men to make a free flight. Their hot-air balloon flew nearly 6 miles in 25 mins.
1846 – The word anesthesia was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1871 – The first U.S. patent for a cigar lighter was issued to Moses F. Gale of New York City.
1877 – Thomas Edison announced his invention of his “talking machine” – the tin-foil cylinder recorder that preceded the phonograph.
1905 – 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open.
1947 – First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started.
1947 – Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General. He became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of Indi
an Army on Jan. 15, 1949 taking over from British chief in transition, Gen. Roy Butcher. He retired in Jan. 1953 but was later confered with the rank of Field Marshal (Honorary).
1962 – The Chinese People’s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
1924 – The television was invented, demonstrated and given for patent by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in San Franscisco (pic credit-Britannica).
1969 – Bhilai Steel Plant creates a new world record in steel-making by producing ‘one heat’ in f
our hours three minutes.
1971 – Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army.
1973 – Seth Govinddas, M.P. of Jabalpur, was honoured in the Central Hall of Parliament for completion of 25 years in Parliament, which was an unprecedented record. He was a freedom fighter, popular writer, poet and politician. Was awarded Padam Bhushan (pic credit-Maheshwari Times),
1993 – India and South Africa sign a historic pact on re-establishing diplomatic and consular relations after a gap of 
50 years.
2016 – India celebrates 50th anniversary of IR8, rice variety specially bred that saved much of Asia from famine.
Born….
1926 – Premnath, Bollywood actor mostly in character and villain roles. Known for films Ajit, Aan, Teesri Manzil, Magroor, Krodhi, Johney Mera Naam, Tere Mere Sapne, Bobby, Roti Kapada Aur Makaan, Dharmatma etc. He won 3 Filmfare awards.
RIP….
1970 – Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.
You may have known….
There are more possible iterations of a game of Chess than there are atoms in the known universe. The earliest predecessor of the game probably originated in India (called Chausar), before the 6th century AD. (A minority of historians believe the game originated in China). From India, the game spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the 
Muslim world and subsequently spread to Southern Europe.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen.(R) Raj Kadyan}