Robert Nimmo (1893–1966) was a senior Australian Army officer and the chief military observer (CMO) of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) from 1950 until his death. Nimmo graduated early from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, to participate in World War I, serving with the Australian Light Horse. He remained in Australia in training and staff roles early in World War II. He then administered command of Northern Territory Force before commanding the logistics effort for the Bougainville campaign, and served as a senior staff officer on First Australian Army headquarters in New Guinea. He commanded a brigade of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, then returned to Australia to lead Northern Command. In 1950, he was made Commander of the British Empire, retired from the army, and was appointed as CMO of UNMOGIP, where he remained until he died on 4 January 1966. Nimmo was the first Australian to command a multinational peacekeeping force.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1798:
After his appointment as Prince of Wallachia, Constantine Hangerli arrived in Bucharest to assume the throne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Hangerli
1936:
Billboard published its first music hit parade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_%28magazine%29
1989:
Two American F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers that appeared to be attempting to engage them over the Gulf of Sidra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_air_battle_near_Tobruk
2004:
Spirit (artist's impression pictured), the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_%28rover%29
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
lapidary: 1. A person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones. 2. The field in which such a person works, a subfield of gemology. 3. (obsolete) 4. An expert in gems and precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. 5. Gems and precious stones collectively; jewellery. 6. (except historical) A treatise on (precious) stones. 7. Of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them. 8. Senses relating to inscriptions. 9. Of an inscription: engraved on stone. 10. Of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately. 11. (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to stones in general. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lapidary
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. --Isaac Newton https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton