Motto for Today: ‘The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.’

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

On this day, Oct. 23……….

4004 BC – According to biblical interpretation by church leaders in 1650, the Earth was supposed to have been created.

1760 – 1st Jewish prayer books printed in U.S.

1814 – The first modern plastic surgery was performed at the Duke of York’s Hospital, Chelsea, England. The surgeon, Joseph Carpue, had read letter by a British surgeon, Lucas, in Oct 1794 in the Gentleman’s Magazine. Lucas described a successful procedure performed in India whereby a forehead flap was used to reconstruct a man’s mutilated nose, which had been deliberately mutilated by enemies of the British East Indian forces. Having first practised on several cadavers, Carpue operated on a British military officer who had lost his nose to the toxic effects of mercury treatments, and another whose nose was mutilated by a sword. . (Hindu texts, up to 2600 years ago, have described various reconstruction techniques.)

1824 – 1st steam locomotive is introduced.

1947 – The first American husband and wife team to win a Nobel Prize, Carl and Gerty Cori of Washington University Medical School, were awarded the Physiology or Medicine Prize for “the discovery on how glycogen is converted to glucose in the body, and for the effects of hypophysis hormones on sugar metabolism.”

1959 – Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash.

1970 – To hold down the population – expected to reach 1 bn by 2000 – the Indian government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000.

1990 – Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rath yatra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government.

2010 – If trends in diet and exercise continue, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project estimate 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050.

2113 – In an effort to improve bilateral relations between China and India, the two countries come together to sign a new border defence agreement.

Born….

1957 – Sunil Bharti Mittal, entrepreneur.

RIP….

1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor who was a pioneer of the pneumatic tyre. In 1887, when his 9-yr-old son complained of the rough ride he experienced on his tricycle over the cobbled streets of Belfast, Dunlop devised and fitted rubber air tubes held on to a wooden ring by tacking a linen covering fixed around the wheels. Due to the major improvement in riding comfort, Dunlop continued development, until he patented the idea.

1962 – Subedar Joginder Singh, PVC. (Commanded a platoon of 1 SIKH in the Tawang sector. Starting at 5:30 am the Chinese attacked in wave after wave. The Platoon held firm even after losing half the men, but not the will to fight. When the last wave came the platoon had very few men left to fight. Subedar Joginder Singh, therefore, manned a light machine gun and killed a large number of enemies, about 52 men. With their ammunition exhausted, Subedar Joginder Singh and his men emerged from their position with fixed bayonets, shouting the Sikh battle cry, “Bole So Nihal, Sat Shiri Akaal”. They fell upon the advancing Chinese and bayoneted many to death. Finally better weapons and numerical superiority of the Chinese prevailed and Subedar Singh was captured after this epic battle. He died from his wounds and frostbite as a PoW in Chinese custody. For his inspiring leadership, steadfast courage and devotion to duty beyond all odds, Subedar Joginder Singh was awarded the highest wartime gallantry medal, the Param Vir Chakra, posthumously).

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When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight. 

Good morning. Have a nice day.

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