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

On this day, Dec.12……….

1896 – Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of his radio equipment in London.

1899 – An early U.S. patent for a golf tee was issued to African-American, George F. Grant, a dentist of Boston.

1903 – Commercial manufacture began of the Multigraph duplicating machine. It was the first successful machine to simplify the printing process, so that the layman could print from type either with ribbon or ink.

1911 – Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.

1953 – An aircraft first reached the speed of 2-1/2 times the speed of sound.

1955 – The Indian President promulgated an ordinance providing the usage of Hindi with English for official purposes of Indian Union.

1961 – Portuguese civilians are evacuated amid fears of an Indian troop invasion at Goa, Daman and Diu.

1965 – Vijayanta, first India-made military tank which was handed over to the Army, was manufactured at Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory at Madras.

1971 – All the facilities and pocket money provided to the former kings were cancelled by the Indian Parliament.

1971 – The first aerial victory was when MiG-21 shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch. (This was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21 shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21).

1992 – The world’s largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tons, placed on the ‘Rock of Gibraltar’ in the midst of Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad.

1996 – India and Bangladesh arrive at a settlement to share Ganga water.

Born….

1905 – Mulkraj Anand, Indo-Anglian novelist and critic of international repute.

1940 – Sharad Pawar, politician.

1950 – Rajnikanth, actor.

1954 – Hemant Karkare, police officer. He was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad and was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks after being shot three times in the chest. His bravery was honoured with the Ashoka Chakra on 26 January 2009.

1959 – Krishnamachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92).

1968- Syed Shanawaz Hussain, politician.

1981 – Yuvraj Singh, cricketer.

RIP….

2012 – Ramanand Sagar, film director, producer of ‘epic serial Ramayan’

You may have known….

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

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

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