Motto for Today: ‘Don’t find fault, find remedy.’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!   

On this day, 07 Oct….
1520 – First public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain 07 Oct. (Book burning has a long history. Books are the targets because they ‘are the embodiment of ideas and if you hold extreme beliefs, you cannot tolerate anything that contradicts those beliefs or is in competition with them’. Book burnings are highly symbolic. When you destroy a book, you are destroying your enemy and your enemy’s beliefs).

1586 – The Mughal army entered Srinagar where ‘Khutbah’ was being recited in the name of the emperor.

1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood. {In 1801 Pellegrino Turri, an Italian inventor, invented carbon paper to provide the ink for his mechanical typing machine, one of the first typewriters. Carbon paper (originally carbonic paper) was initially paper coated on one side with a layer of loosely bound dry ink or pigmented coating, bound with wax. The advent of word-processing and the decline of typewriting meant that any number of copies of a document could be printed on demand, and the decline of carbon paper, which had already been partially superseded by photocopying and carbonless copy paper, became irrevocable}.

1856 – Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers.

1900 – The term “orienteering” is first used for an event. (Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations. Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering).

1913 – Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line.

1931 – First infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York.

1950 – Mother Teresa received the permission of the Vatican to start the Missionaries of Charity. Beginning in Calcutta as a small order with only 13 members, it had grown by the turn of the century into a congregation of thousands of sisters running orphanages, AIDS hospices and charity centres.

1952 – Chandigarh became the capital of Punjab.

1997 – Indian Central government women employees to get 135 days’ maternity leave and men to get 15 days’ paternity leave.

1999 – Long jumper Sanjay Kumar Rai became the first Indian man to go over the eight-metre twice when he leapt to a personal best of 8.02m at the National Athletic Circuit meet in Mumbai and sound a fresh threat to T. C. Yohannan’s two-decade old national record of 8.07m. The current record is 8.09 m set by Prem Kumar during the Railway championships in Aug 2013. Olympic record is by Bob Beamon, 8.90 m set in 1968).

2001 – The US invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.

2012 – Antisa Khvichava, a Georgian woman believed to be the oldest woman of all time, dies at age 132.

2016 – Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent.

Born….

1914 – Begum Akhtar, singer.

1978 – Zaheer Khan, cricketer.

1979 – Yukta Mukhey, actor.

RIP….

1708 – Guru Gobind Singh.

1737 – 40-foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 in Bengal.

Titbits….

1714 – People riot due to beer tax in Netherlands.

You may have known….
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
Good morning. Have a nice day.

{Compiled  by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}