Important Events Of November – 22

November 22 – Go For A Ride Day

• Go For A Ride Day encourages you to get out into the world – hope on your bike, into your car, or simply get your walking boots out of storage and go on a trip. November 22nd has seen various developments of the transportation industry since as early as 1904, making Go For a Ride Day a celebration of not only cars, but any mode of transportation that strikes your fancy.

M. G. K. Menon Memorial Day

Birth:

• He was born on August 28, 1928 in India.

Honours:

• He is an Physicist and policy maker from India.
• He had a prominent role in the development of science and technology in India over four decades.
• One of his most important contributions was nurturing the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai which his mentor Homi Jai Bhabha founded in 1945.
• He under took experiments with cosmic rays to explore the properties of fundamental particles.
• M.G.K. Menon was the chairman of ISRO in 1972.
• He was a member of the Planning Commission in 1982–1989.
• Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister in 1986–1989 and Vice-President Council of Scientific & Industrial Research(CSIR) in 1989–1990.
• He was elected as a member of parliament(Rajya Sabha) during 1990–96.
• Then V.P. Singh appointed him as the minister of state for science and technology and education in 1989.

Awards:

• Padma Shri award – 1961
• Padma Bhushan Award – 1968
• Padma Vibhushan Award – 1985
• Royal Society Bello-1970
• The asteroid 7564 Gokumenon was named in his honour in late 2008.

Death:

• He died on November 22, 2016.

Events

• 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service connecting Alameda,California with Manila.(This event reached Manila with 110,000 posters on November 29).
• 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
• 2005 – The X-Box 360 video game engine released.
• 2007 – The Government of Sri Lanka banned the Tamil Rehabilitation Association.

Births

• 1830 – Jalkaribai,Indian freedom fighter
• 1904 – Louis Neel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer scientist and programmer, created PHP.

Deaths

1. 1774 – Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire.
2. 1963 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States
3. 1967 – Chidambaranathan Chettiar,Tamil scholar and Linguists from Tamilnadu.

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