Today’s Motto: ‘Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck’

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

On this day, 12 Dec….

1893 – The first U.S. patent for aerial photography was issued to Cornele B. Adams.

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

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. Coronation of King George V and Queen Victoria was done at today’s Ram Lila Ground in Delhi. (pic credit -DAG)

1912 – The earliest known experiment to produce an airplane ejection seat was conducted.

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 tonnes, placed on the ‘Rock of Gibraltar’ in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.

1997- India and Bangladesh arrive at a settlement to share Ganga water.

1997 – Japanese Maglev train builders claim world speed record at 332 MPH.

2019 – Deepest point on land on earth identified under Denman Glacier, east Antarctica at 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level.

2020 – Chinese leader Xi Jinping says the country will reduce its carbon intensity by 65% by 2030.

Born….

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

1940 – Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra politician, served in Union Cabinet for many decades but formed NCP in May 1999 after refusing to support Sonia Gandhi as PM of India .

1950 – Rajnikanth, legendary Tamil actor.

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

1968- Syed Shanawaz Hussain, veteran BJP politician.

1981 – Yuvraj Singh, middle order batsman. He smashed 6 sixes in a T20 match facing Stuart Broad in Durban on Sept. 19. 2007. Has 155 sixes to his credit.

RIP….

2012 – Ramanand Sagar, legendary film director and producer. He directed and produced mythological TV epic Ramayan, telecast from  25 January 1987.

You may have known….

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