The axe may forget but the tree doesn't.
On this day 13 Dec....
On this day 13 Dec....
1920 - First U.S. measurement of the size of a fixed star was made on Betelgeuse, the bright red star in the right shoulder of Orion, which was found to be 260 million miles in diameter - 150 times greater than the Sun.
1928 - Clip-on tie designed. (Among other reasons of convenience, police officers and security guards often wear clip-ons as a precaution against being strangled by a pulled necktie).
1962 - Relay I, the first U.S. communications earth satellite to transmit telephone, television, teleprinter and facsimile signals was launched.
1968 - The journal Science published the classic essay Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin. He presented issues of ecology and social ethics in the form of a parable about farmers who, when allowed to graze their cattle in one field as much as they wanted to, each acted in their own self-interest, and the field was destroyed. The idea of self-interest extends beyond the individual to households, villages, companies, industries or nations. His concept of the commons includes ecosystems, rivers, oceans, organisms or mineral resources with actions such as over-fishing, deforestation, resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions. He concluded that the Earth will likewise be destroyed by overpopulation
1989 - Kashmiri militants release the daughter of Indian Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their comrades freed from prison.
Born....
1962 - Relay I, the first U.S. communications earth satellite to transmit telephone, television, teleprinter and facsimile signals was launched.
1968 - The journal Science published the classic essay Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin. He presented issues of ecology and social ethics in the form of a parable about farmers who, when allowed to graze their cattle in one field as much as they wanted to, each acted in their own self-interest, and the field was destroyed. The idea of self-interest extends beyond the individual to households, villages, companies, industries or nations. His concept of the commons includes ecosystems, rivers, oceans, organisms or mineral resources with actions such as over-fishing, deforestation, resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions. He concluded that the Earth will likewise be destroyed by overpopulation
1989 - Kashmiri militants release the daughter of Indian Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their comrades freed from prison.
Born....
1960 - Daggubati Venkatesh, film actor.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Lt Gen Raj Kadyan
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Lt Gen Raj Kadyan
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