On this day - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

Don't set sail on someone else's star.

On this day 14 Dec....

1287 - During St. Lucia's Flood in Northwest Netherlands the Zuiderzee seawall collapses with loss of over 50,000 lives. Fifth largest recorded flood in history.

1656 - Modern-day imitation pearls were first manufactured by the Frenchman Jacquin, a rosary-bead maker. He coated the inside surface of a hollow glass bead with a mixture made of fish scales, made centuries ago. 

1798 - The first U.S. patent for a nut and bolt machine was issued to inventor David Wilkinson.

1807 - A meteorite to be recorded in the U.S. fell at Weston (now called Easton), at 6:30 a.m., making a hole 5-ft long and 4.5-ft wide. This was the New World's first witnessed fall of a meteorite. A thirty-pound fragment of this Chondrite H4 became the nucleus of Yale University's Peabody Museum.

1901 - 1st table tennis tournament is held (London).

1902 - Laying down the first cable across the Pacific Ocean began. The first test message was sent on 1 Jan 1903. Transmission of public messages through the cable began a few days later, on 5 Jan 1903.

1911 - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

1920 - Akali Dal established.

1931 - Viceroy of India issues new powers to seize properties of those who, following independence leader Gandhi, refuse to pay taxes.

1969 - Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta.

1986 - Voyager, the experimental aircraft piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world. The trip took nine days. During its 25,000 mile flight, Voyager flew at an average speed of 115.8 mph. This flight nearly doubled the previous distance record set in 1962 by a USAF/Boeing

Born....

1911 -  Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain, German aeronautical engineer who designed the first operational jet engine.

1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate.

1924 - Raj Kapoor, noted film producer, director and actor; winner of two National Film Awards and nine Filmfare Awards; known as "The Show Man". His performance in Awaara was ranked as one of the top ten greatest performances of all time by Time magazine.

1946 - Sanjay Gandhi, youth Congress leader.

RIP....

1799 -   George Washington, American surveyor, military leader and president who was an eager student of mathematics in his youth, teaching himself geometry and trigonometry.

1943 -  John Harvey Kellogg. (American physician and health-food pioneer whose development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry. A vegetarian, he advocated low calorie diets and developed peanut butter, granola, and toasted flakes. He warned that smoking caused lung cancer decades before this link was studied. Kellogg was an early advocate of exercise. It was his brother, William K. Kellogg who sweetened the flakes with malt).

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Lt Gen Raj Kadyan