Today’s Motto: ‘A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with…….
........the bricks others have thrown at him'
As every day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Oct.06…….
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock. (Many of the self-winding clocks were not used after 1960s and they
‘re now becoming collector items).
1889 – In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time. (The term ‘Moulin Rogue’ means ‘Red Mill’ and is marked by a red windmill on its roof. It is best known as the spiritual birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance. Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe. Today, the Moulin Rouge is a tourist attraction).
1927 – “Jazz Singer,” first movie with a sound track, premieres in New York.
1948 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
1961 – President JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel.
1985 – PT Usha sets record for 400m (Women) in 51.61 seconds at Canberra.
2012 – Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said Islam should join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
2014 – The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Hiroshi Amano, Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for developing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), which emits low-energy white light that can replace incandescents and mercury-containing fluorescents
(pic – credit- Asia Society).
Born….
1779 – The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. (He was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He was the Governor of Bombay, where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions.
1946 – Vinod Khanna, Bollywood actor.
RIP….
1858 – Nanasaheb Peshwa, a revolutionary of first war of independence.
1963 – Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter and grand old man of Punjab.
1974 – Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha. He had resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression of 1962.
Titbits….
1979 – Harry Drake set long distance foot-bow shot record of 2,006 yds 1’9″.
You may have known….
Honeybees let out a ‘whoop’ of surprise when they run into each other.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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