A person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
On this day, 30 Nov....
1609 - The modern face of the moon first emerged when Galileo Galilei in Padua turned his telescope toward the moon, noted the irregularities of the crescent face, and made a drawing to record his discoveries.
1858 - John Landis Mason received a US patent for his invention known by his name - the Mason jar.
1897 - A U.S. patent for a "Device for Rolling Cigarettes" was issued to black American inventor J.A. Sweeting.
1900 - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles.
1928 - Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 & 1 vs England.
1954 - in Sylacauga, Alabama, USA, Ann Hodges, 32, was bruised on the arm and hip by a meteorite that fell through the roof of her house into her living room.
1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
Born....
1874 - Winston Churchill. {He was the Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States in his life time (Later also Mother Teresa). As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. Churchill was brought up by his nanny Mrs Elizabeth Ann Everest; was rebellious when young and had poor academic record; struggled with a stutter and a lateral lisp: was mocked for his red hair in school and was given the cruel nickname "Copperknob"; Got into Sandhurst military academy in1893 in his third attempt; after working with other publications, in 1899, joined as a correspondent for the Morning Post at a salary of £250 a month; took some 60 bottles of booze with him when he set out for the Boer War; was captured after the armoured train he was travelling on in South Africa was stormed by Boer soldiers - threw himself to safety in a ditch by the side of the track after the train collided with a boulder on the track but was found hunkered down in the dirt and surrendered to an armed Boer soldier, who decided not to shoot; (The Boer soldier turned out to be Louis Botha – the future first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa who would work with Churchill in later life to help South Africa become a British Dominion); escaped by scaling a prison wall in the dead of night; after returning as a young war hero and publishing his tales from the battlefields, Churchill contested the Oldham constituency seat – which he had lost a year earlier – and won; then embarked on a speaking tour through Britain and north America which helped him raise £10,000 for himsel; as a young politician, Churchill was staunchly against votes for women; was personally involved in the development of the tank – which was first used in battle by the British army on September 15 1916; tried flying but never gained his pilot's licence after he was hurt in an aeroplane crash at Croydon aerodrome – and his wife urged him to give up the hobby; the disastrous Gallipoli landings on the Dardanelles during the First World War was the brainchild of Churchill; proposed to three different women during his twenties – all of whom refused - but he did remain friends with all three women; was a prolific painter and produced almost 600 works of art during his lifetime; notorious for his smoking, he has a cuban cigar named in his honour - Churchill was the only person whom Field Marshal Montgomery would allow to smoke in his presence; was 65-years-old when he first became PM; was an incredibly emotional man, would often breakdown into sobs during meeting when he was given bad news and in many of his broadcast speeches he can be heard holding back tears: daily wore his 'jumpsuit,' the extraordinary one-piece uniform, but the servants never quite got over seeing him naked in his room when they'd go up to serve brandy, it was the jumpsuit or nothing; suffered from clinical depression throughout his life; was a fan of drink Champagne, he said of it: "I could not live without Champagne, in victory I deserve it, in defeat I need it".
Titbits....
1986 - Ivan Lendl became 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, in lifetime.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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