Thursday, 27 November 2014

NOVEMBER 25 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 25th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY

  • 1715 - First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
  • 1783 - Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States
  • 1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
  • 1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
  • 1960 - First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa
  • 1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
  • 1975 - Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands..
  • 1983 - World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England
  • 1997 - US telephone technician Richard Bliss arrested for spying in Russia
  • 2007 - The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania.
  • 2008 - Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others
  • 2014 - Missouri Governor Jay Nixon orders hundreds more US National Guard troops to the town of Ferguson to prevent a second night of rioting and looting

NOVEMBER 24 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON NOVEMBER 24 IN HISTORY



  • 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
  • 1874 - Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
  • 1914 - Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
  • 1922 - Italian parliament gives Benito Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
  • 1949 - British steel & iron industry nationalised
  • 1958 - Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
  • 1964 - For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washngton DC permitted to vote
  • 1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
  • 1969 - Apollo 12 returns to Earth
  • 1981 - 1st air-launched cruise missile tested
  • 1989 - Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record
  • 2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
  • 2014 - A 12-year-old boy is shot dead by police in Cleveland, after brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun in a playground

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

NOVEMBER 23 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 23rd NOVEMBER IN HISTORY

  • 1584 - English parliament expels Jesuits
  • 1654 - French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
  • 1848 - Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
  • 1871 - Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens
  • 1892 - P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games
  • 1897 - Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
  • 1942 - Col-gen Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender
  • 1943 - British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
  • 1971 - China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
  • 1978 – Cyclone kills about 1000 people in Eastern Sri Lanka.
  • 1983 - Soyuz T-9 lands
  • 1992 - 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
  • 1996 - The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
  • 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines
  • 2014 - A suicide bomber kills 40 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan


Sunday, 23 November 2014

NOVEMBER 22 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON NOVEMBER 22 IN HISTORY


  • 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
  • 1906 - International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
  • 1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
  • 1914 - Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia
  • 1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
  • 1954 - Humane Society forms
  • 1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
  • 1960 - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
  • 1963 - American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
  • 1972 - US ends 22 year travel ban to China
  • 1974 - UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
  • 1976 - Algeria Constitution goes into effect
  • 1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
  • 2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
  • 2013 - Norwegian, Magnus Carlsen defeats  Viswanathan Anand to win the 2013 World Chess Championship
  • 2013 - The discovery of Siats meekerorum was announced. The dinosaur skeleton, more than 30 feet long, was found in eastern Utah.

Friday, 21 November 2014

NOVEMBER 21 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 21st NOVEMBER IN HISTORY



  • 1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
  • 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
  • 1918 – Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
  • 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
  • 1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
  • 1964 – The Verrazano–Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. (At the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge.)
  • 1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
  • 1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
  • 1989 - TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
  • 1995 - France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific..
  • 1999 - China announced that it had test-launched an unmanned space capsule that was designed for manned spaceflight.
  • 2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
  • 2004 - The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.


Thursday, 20 November 2014

KERALA PSC : CALL FOR ASSISTANT ENGINEER (MECHANICAL)


CALL FOR ASSISTANT ENGINEER (MECHANICAL)



Gazette Date: 15/11/2014
Last Date: 17/12/2014
Category No: 424/2014
Applications must be submitted online through the official website of the
Commission after 'ONE TIME REGISTRATION'. Candidates who have already
registered can apply through their profile.
1. Name of Firm : Travancore Titanium Products Limited
2. Name of Post : Assistant Engineer (Mechanical)
3. Scale of Pay : ` 11910 – 19350/( Revised)
4. No. of vacancies : 2 (Two)
Note:-
(i) The number of candidates to be included in the short list/probability list of the
above post will be decided as per the availability of admitted applications.
(ii) The above vacancies are now in existence. The list of selected candidates
published by the Commission in pursuance of this notification shall remain in
force for a minimum period of one year and a maximum period of three years
provided that the list will not continue to be in force if a new Ranked List after
the minimum period of expiry of one year is published. Candidate will be
advised against the vacancy shown above and also for all the vacancies
reported during the period of pendency of the Ranked List.
(iii) The Kerala Public Service Commission shall have the power to cancel the
advice for appointment of any candidate to the above post, if it is subsequently
found that such advice was made under some mistake. On such cancellation the
appointing authority shall terminate the service of the candidate, provided that,
the cancellation of advice for appointment by the Commission and subsequent
termination of service of the candidate by the appointing authority shall be
made within the period of probation or 240 days from the date of joining duty
whichever is earlier.
5. Method of appointment : Direct Recruitment
6. Age : 18-36 (Only candidates born between 02/01/1978 and 01/01/1996 (both dates included) are eligible to apply for this post.
Other Backward Communities and SC/ST candidates are eligible for usual age relaxation.
Note:-1. The provisional hands working in the above concern will be given age
relaxation to the extent of their provisional service put in subject to a maximum
of five years from the upper age limit provided they are within the prescribed
age limit on the date of their first appointment in the above concern. But the
regular employees of the concern are not eligible for the above concession for
further appointment. The provisional hands should obtain a certificate showing
the period of their provisional service in the concern and shall produce the same
as and when required by the Commission. It would also be clearly specified in
the certificate that they were not working in the regular service of the concern.
7. Qualifications:
Degree in Mechanical Engineering from a recognized University..
8. Mode of submitting applications:-
Candidates shall register as per “ONE TIME REGISTRATION” system on the
official website of Kerala Public Service Commission ‘www.keralapsc.gov.in” for
applying for the post. Candidates who have registered shall apply by logging on to their
profile using their User ID and password. Candidates shall click on the ‘Apply Now’
button of the respective posts in the Notification link for applying for a post. No
application fee is required. Candidates can view and have a print-out of the details in the
profile by clicking the link Registration Card, if required. Candidates are responsible for
the correctness of the personal information and secrecy of the password. Before applying
for a post, candidates must ensure the correctness of the information in their profile. They
shall quote the User-ID for further communication with the Commission. Applications
once submitted will be received as provisional and particulars shall not be deleted or
altered after submission. The application will be summarily rejected if noncompliance
with the notification is found due course of processing. Documents to prove
Qualification, Community, Age, etc. have to be produced as and when called for.
9. Last date for receipt of application : 17.12.2014 Wednesday upto 12.00 midnight.
10. Address to which applications are to be submitted : www.keralapsc.gov.in.
11.(a) The selection to the above concern will be subject to the rules and regulations
made by them from time to time.

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

NOVEMBER 20 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 20th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY


  • 1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
  • 1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
  • 1917 – Ukraine is declared a republic.
  • 1945 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
  • 1952 – Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
  • 1962 – Cuban missile crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
  • 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
  • 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
  • 1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
  • 1990 - Saddam Hussein announces plans to release German hostages
  • 1995 - "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released
  • 1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
  • 1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
  • 2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
  • 2012 - Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters

NOVEMBER 19 IN HISTORY


EVENTS ON 19th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY


  • 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
  • 1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
  • 1794 - Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
  • 1805 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross continent
  • 1850 - Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
  • 1863 - US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..."
  • 1893 - 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
  • 1911 - NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
  • 1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
  • 1932 - Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
  • 1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1952 - Spain joins UNESCO
  • 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
  • 1957 - Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
  • 1962 - Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
  • 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
  • 1983 - Jari Kurri becomes the first (and only) Finnish player to score five goals in a game
  • 1985 - US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time
  • 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
  • 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
  • 2013 - 23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK

TOP QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK (10-16 NOVEMBER)


Article 280 of Indian constitution related to .............
Finance Commission
Capital city of pallavas was :
Kanchi
In which country the green revolution started first:
Mexico
The smallest neighboring country of India
Butan
Largest gland in the human body
Liver
First election commissioner of India
Sukumar Sen
The national game of India
Hockey
The name of product related to ACC
Cement
Edakkal caves is in ...................district
Wayanad
The winner of 2013 Saraswathy samman
Gonind Mishra
The currency of Germany is
Mark
In which year Kudumbasree started in Kerala
1998
The controller and auditor general is appointed by
President of India
The book " I follow the Mahathma " written by
K.M.Munshi
Headquarters of Indian military college
Pune
Pyorrhoea is a disease of the
Gums
Who is known as the benevolent governor general
William Bentinck
Who found Ananthamahasaba
Swami sivayogi
"Oslo" the capital of 
Norway

NOVEMBER 18 IN HISTORY


EVENTS ON 18th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY



  • 326   – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
  • 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
  • 1626 – St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
  • 1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
  • 1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
  • 1918 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia
  • 1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
  • 1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
  • 1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
  • 1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.
  • 1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
  • 1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a treaty of nonaggression. 
  • 1993 - Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
  • 1997 - Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
  • 1997 - In Carlisle, IA, septuplets were born to Bobbi McCaughey. It was only the second known case where all seven were born alive. 
  • 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sold at auction for more than $71 million. 
  • 2002 -The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide. 
  • 2003 - In England, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective
  • 2004 - Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
  • 2012 - 101st Davis Cup: Czech Republic beats Spain in Prague (3-2)
  • 2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.


NOVEMBER 17 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 17th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY



  • 1511 – Henry VIII of England concluded the Treaty of Westminster, a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with Ferdinand II of Aragon.
  • 1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
  • 1659 – The Treaty of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
  • 1811 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
  • 1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
  • 1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
  • 1896 – The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
  • 1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union
  • 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
  • 1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos.
  • 1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
  • 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
  • 1976 - The parliament of Spain approved a bill that established a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship. 
  • 1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed major legislation provided the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill. 
  • 1993 - Representatives from 21 South African political parties approved a new constitution. 
  • 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
  • 2013 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.

Sunday, 16 November 2014

NOVEMBER 16 IN HISTORY

16th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY



  • 1380 - French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
  • 1676 - 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass
  • 1700 - Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
  • 1835 - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • 1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
  • 1907 - Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
  • 1920 - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
  • 1945 - UNESCO is founded.
  • 1950 - UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
  • 1962 - Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
  • 1963 - Touch-tone telephone introduced
  • 1969 - US President Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office
  • 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
  • 1974 - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
  • 1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
  • 1982 - 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB
  • 1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • 1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
  • 1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
  • 1993 - Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
  • 1997 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
  • 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
  • 2003 - Lionel Messi makes his official debut for FC Barcelona
  • 2013 -Indian cricketeer Sachin Tendulkar scores 74 runs in the final Test innings of his career at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium


15th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON NOVEMBER 15

  • 1492 - Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
  • 1660 - First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)
  • 1720 - Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial
  • 1827 - Creek-indians lose all their property in US
  • 1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
  • 1884 - Colonization of Africa orgainized at international conference in Berlin
  • 1899 - Winston Churchill,  Morning Post reporter  captured by Boers in Natal
  • 1914 - Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo d'Italia
  • 1919 - US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
  • 1920 - League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva
  • 1932 - Walt Disney Art School created
  • 1936 - Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
  • 1947 - Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG
  • 1948 - Mackenzie King retires after spending 22 years as the Prime Minister of Canada
  • 1961 - UN bans nuclear arms
  • 1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
  • 1974 - International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis
  • 1988 - Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
  • 1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
  • 1989 - Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
  • 1990 - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
  • 1992 - Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
  • 1999 - Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
  • 2000 - New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India
  • 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
  • 2014 - World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth

Friday, 14 November 2014

NOVEMBER 14 IN HISTORY

HISTORICAL EVENTS  ON 14th NOVEMBER


  • 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
  • 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India 
  • 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
  • 1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
  • 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
  • 1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
  • 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
  • 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
  • 1970 - Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
  • 1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
  • 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
  • 1983 - First cruise missile placed at Greenham Common, England
  • 1984 - NASA launches NATO-3D
  • 1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
  • 1990 - Michael Heseltine contests Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the British Conservative Party
  • 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
  • 2006 - Andy Warhol's painting of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong sold for $17.4 million. At the same auction "Orange Marilyn" sold for $16.2 million and "Sixteen Jackies" sold for $15.6 million.
  • 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
  • 2009 - The National Statistical Service of Greece states that the country has been in recession since the beginning of the year
  • 2010 – Germany's Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula One's Drivers Championship to become the sport's youngest champion.
  • 2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
  • 2012 - CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered, the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away)
  • 2013 - Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes


Thursday, 13 November 2014

NOVEMBER 13 IN HISTORY

13th NOVEMBER  IN HISTORY 

  • 1841- James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
  • 1851 - Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked
  • 1864 - The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
  • 1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
  • 1955 - 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
  • 1994 - Sweden agrees to join European Union
  • 1995-A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
  • 2007-Russia officially withdraws from the Soviet-era Batumi military base, Georgia

NOVEMBER 12 IN HISTORY

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ നവംബർ  12 

  • 1918- ഓസ്ട്രിയ റിപ്പബ്ലിക്കായി 
  • 1927-ലിയോണ്‍ ട്രോസ്ക്കിയെ സോവിയറ്റ് കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റ് പാർട്ടിയിൽ നിന്ന് പുറത്താക്കി 
  • 1982-യൂറി ആന്ദ്രപോവ് സോവിയറ്റ് കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റ് പാർട്ടി ജനറൽ സെക്രട്ടറിയായി 
  • 1990-ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ ശാസ്ത്രഞ്ഞൻ ടിം ബർണേഴ്സ്ലീ , വേൾഡ് വൈഡ് വെബ് ആരംഭിക്കാനുള്ള നിർദേശം പ്രസിദ്ധപെടുത്തി 
  • 2011-ഇറ്റലി പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി സിൽവിയോ ബർലുസ്ക്കോണി രാജ്യത്തിന്റെ കടക്കെണി പ്രതിസന്ധിയെ തുടർന്ന് രാജി വെച്ചു 

Saturday, 8 November 2014

NOVEMBER 8 IN HISTORY

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ നവംബർ 8 

1895 - ജർമ്മനിയിലെ ഭൗതിക ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞൻ വില്യം റോണ്‍ജൻ എക്സ്-റേ കണ്ടുപിടിച്ചു 
1923-ജർമ്മനി സർക്കാരിനെ അട്ടിമറിക്കാൻ അഡോൾഫ് ഹിറ്റ്ലറുടെ നേതൃത്വത്തിൽ നാസികളുടെ വിഫല ശ്രമം 
2013-ഹയാൻ ചുഴലികൊടുങ്കാറ്റിൽ ഫിലിപ്പീൻസിൽ ആറായിരത്തിലേറെപ്പേർ മരിച്ചു 

NOVEMBER 7 IN HISTORY

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ നവംബർ  7 

  • 1665-ലോകത്തിലെ പഴക്കമേറിയ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരണമായ ലണ്ടൻ ഗസറ്റ് പുറത്തിറങ്ങി 
  • 1893-അമേരിക്കയിലെ കൊളറാഡോയ്യീൽ സ്ത്രീകൾക്ക് വോട്ടവകാശം ലഭിച്ചു 
  • 1989-പശ്ചിമ ജർമ്മനിയുടെ പ്രസിഡന്റ്  വില്ലി സ്റ്റോപ്പ് സർക്കാർ വിരുദ്ധ പ്രക്ഷോഭങ്ങളെ തുടർന്ന് രാജി വെച്ചു 
  • 2000 -ഹിലാരി ക്ലിന്റൻ യു.എസ്. സെനറ്റിലേക്ക് തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപെടുന്ന ആദ്യ മുൻ പ്രഥമവനിതയായി 

Friday, 7 November 2014

NOVEMBER 6 IN HISTORY

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ നവംബർ  6 

  • 1918-രണ്ടാം പോളണ്ട് റിപ്പബ്ലിക് സ്ഥാപിതമായി 
  • 1943-രണ്ടാം ലോക മഹായുദ്ധം : സോവിയറ്റ് സൈന്യം കീവ് പിടിച്ചെടുത്തു 
  • 1944-വാഷിങ്ങ്ടണിലെ ഹാൻഫോർഡ് ആണവകേന്ദ്രത്തിൽ  പ്ലൂട്ടോണിയം ഉത്പാദിപ്പിച്ചു 

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

NOVEMBER 5 IN HISTORY

5th NOVEMBER  IN HISTORY


  • 1831-American slave leader Nat Turner is convicted and sentenced ti death in Virginia
  • 1854- The Battle of Inkerman
  • 1862-American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B.McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time 
  • 1895-The first US patent for an automobile is granted to George B.Seldon
  • 1914-World WAR I :France and British Empire declare war on Ottoman Empire
  • 1943-World War II :Bombing of the Vatican
  • 2006-Former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein sentenced to death in al-Dujali trial.
  • 2007-First lunar Satellite of China , chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon 
  • 2007-Google unveiled Android Operating System
  • 2013-India's First interplanetary probe , Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)  launched





Monday, 3 November 2014

NOVEMBER 4 IN HISTORY

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ നവംബർ 4 

  • 1918-ഒന്നാം ലോക മഹായുദ്ധം : ഓസ്ട്രിയ-ഹംഗറി  ഇറ്റലിക്ക് കീഴടക്കി 
  • 1956-സോവിയറ്റ് യൂണിയനെതിരായ പ്രക്ഷോഭം അടിച്ചമർത്താൻ സോവിയറ്റ് പട്ടാളം ഹംഗറിയിൽ കടന്നു 
  • 1970-ചിലി പ്രസിഡന്റായതോടെ സാൽവദോർ അലൻഡെ തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിലൂടെ അധികാരത്തിലെത്തുന്ന ലാറ്റിനമേരിക്കയിലെ ആദ്യ കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റ് നേതാവായി 
  • 2008 - ബാരക് ഒബാമ   അമേരിക്കൻ പ്രസിഡന്റാകുന ആദ്യത്തെ ആഫ്രിക്കൻ- അമേരിക്കൻ വംശജനായി .

NOVEMBER 3 IN HISTORY

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ നവംബർ  3 

  • 1838- ലോകത്തെ പ്രചാരമേറിയ ഇംഗ്ലിഷ് പത്രം ടൈംസ്‌ ഓഫ് ഇന്ത്യ മുംബൈയിൽ പുറത്തിറങ്ങി 
  • 1903- അമേരിക്കയുടെ പിന്തുണയോടെ പനാമ കൊളംബിയയിൽ നിന്ന വേർപിരിഞ്ഞു 
  • 1957-ലെയ്ക്ക എന്ന പട്ടിയുമായി സോവിയറ്റ് യൂണിയൻ സ്ഫുട്നിക് 2 ബഹിരാകാശ പേടകം വിക്ഷേപിച്ചു 
  • 1988-മാലെ ദ്വീപിലെ മാമൂണ്‍ അബ്ദുൽ ഗയും സർക്കാരിനെതിരായ അട്ടിമറിശ്രമം ഇന്ത്യൻ സൈന്യം പരാജയപ്പെടുത്തി 

Sunday, 2 November 2014

NATIONAL AWARDS-2014

ദേശീയ പുരസ്കാരങ്ങൾ -2014 

  • കേന്ദ്ര സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി യുവ പുരസ്കാരം
ഇന്ദു മേനോൻ 
  • കേന്ദ്ര സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി ബാലസാഹിത്യ പുരസ്കാരം
കെ .വി. രാമനാഥൻ 
  • കേന്ദ്ര സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി ഭാഷാ സമ്മാൻ
ഡോ . പുതുശ്ശേരി രാമചന്ദ്രൻ 
  • അമേസിങ്ങ് ഇന്ത്യൻ അവാർഡ്
അരുണിമ സിൻഹ
  • എം . എസ് . സുബ്ബലക്ഷ്മി അവാർഡ്
മാതംഗി സത്യമൂർത്തി 
  • ഫ്ളോറൻസ് നൈറ്റിംഗേൽ അവാർഡ് 
ഡോ .എസ് .സുധാമണിയമ്മ , ശർമ്മിള കെ .
  • DRDO യുടെ സാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യ നേതൃത്വ  അവാർഡ് 
എം .അനന്തനാരയണം 
  • മികച്ച നടനുള്ള ഇന്റർനാഷണൽ ഇന്ത്യൻ ഫിലിം അക്കാദമിയുടെ അവാർഡ് 
ഫർഹാൻ അക്തർ 
  •  മികച്ച നടിക്കുള്ള ഇന്റർനാഷണൽ ഇന്ത്യൻ ഫിലിം അക്കാദമിയുടെ അവാർഡ്
ദീപിക പദുകോണ്‍ 
  • രാമാനുജൻ മാത്തമാറ്റിക്സ് അവാർഡ് 
ആനന്ദ് കുമാർ 
  • രാജീവ് ഗാന്ധി ദേശീയ സദ്ഭാവനാ പുരസ്കാരം 
മുസഫർ അലി 
  • കേന്ദ്ര സാമൂഹിക നീതി , ശാക്തീകരണ വകുപ്പിന്റെ സമഗ്ര സംഭാവനയ്ക്കുള്ള പുരസ്കാരം 
ഡോ .പി.കെ .ബി .നായർ 
  • മെർലിൻ അവാർഡ് 
മജീഷ്യൻ സാമ്രാട്ട് 

Saturday, 1 November 2014

NOVEMBER 2 IN HISTORY

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ നവംബർ 2 

  • 1930- ഹെയ്‌ലി സെലാസി എത്യോപ്യയുടെ  ചക്രവർത്തിയായി 
  • 1936- ബ്രിട്ടീഷ്‌ ബ്രോഡ്കാസ്റ്റിങ്ങ് കോർപ്പറേഷൻ (ബി.ബി.സി.) ടെലിവിഷൻ സംപ്രേക്ഷണം തുടങ്ങി .
  • 1973- ത്രിപുരയിൽ സി .പി .എം .- സി . പി .ഐ  ഐക്യമുന്നണി  നിലവിൽ  വന്നു