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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 lifted off from La Muette in Paris. They flew nearly 6 miles in 25 mins, reaching an altitude, it is thought, of around 3000-ft (though this is poorly documented). Spectators included King Louis XVI, who offered to send two prisoners, but Rozier wanted to deny criminals the glory of being the first men to go into the atmosphere.
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. It described an ornamental mechanical device to be attached by a flexible tube to a gas supply. The gas for lighting cigars travelled through a hollow body of a device shaped such as a bird. The flow of gas was regulated by an internal valve actuated by the action of the body pivoting on a control screw.
1877 - Thomas Edison announced his invention of his “talking machine” - the tin-foil cylinder recorder that preceded the phonograph. He appears to have envisioned it as a business dictation machine.
1905 - 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator.
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.
1962 - The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
1969 - Bhilai Steel Plant creates a new world record in steel-making by producing 'one heat' in four 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 50 years in Parliament, which was an unprecedented record.
1993 - India and South Africa sign a historic pact on re-establishing diplomatic and consular relations after a gap of 50 years.
Born....
1926 - Premnath, actor.
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.
Titbits....
1871 - The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot.
You may have known....
India's population is 131 Crore, which makes is second most populous country. Pakistan's population is 18.9 Crore - sixth largest in the world.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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