Motto for Today: ‘When you’re scared but you still do it, that’s brave.’

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

On this day, Dec. 11……..

1769 – Venetian blinds were patented in London by Edward Bevan.

1844 – The first dental anesthetic, nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”) was used for a tooth extraction.

1911 – Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel prize.

1958 – Wilson Jones became India’s first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.

1967 – People’s front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established.

1967 – The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, was unveiled in Toulouse, France.

1971 – 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.

1991 – The centre notifies the interim order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal directing Karnataka to release 205 tmc ft of water to Tamil Nadu.

2010- The world’s first customer delivery of a Nissan Leaf all-electric vehicle was made by a dealer at Petaluma, California.

2017 – Rahul Gandhi is elected leader of the Indian National Congress.

2019 – India passes Citizenship Amendment Bill clearing way for citizenship for immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan but not if they are Muslim.

Born….

1882 – Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet.

1922 – Dilip Kumar, actor.

1931 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh “Osho”, guru of the rich.

1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, former President of India.

RIP….

1998 – Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi), best known for his patriotic song Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo written as a tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country during the Sino-Indian War of 1962.

2012 – Ravi Shankar, composer.

You may have known….
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

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