Today’s Motto: ‘The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the World……….
...........are the ones Who Do'
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.07……..
1520 – First public burning of books in Netherlands. (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. ( 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of copies of a document could be printed on demand, and the decline of carbon paper, which had already been partially superseded by photocopying and carbonless copy paper, became irrevocable- pic credit-3 Quarks Daily).
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.
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 (pic credit -Daily Mail).
2016 – Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent.
Born….
1914 – Begum Akhtar, most popular melody queen, guzzle singer (pic credit-Scroll.in).
1978 – Zaheer Khan, former Indian pace cricketer.
1979 – Yukta Mukhey, Bollywood actor.
RIP….
1708 – Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Guru of Sikhs and Punjabis who established Khalsa Panth for protection of Hindu women and poor people. He also discontinued the chain of human Gurus and enshrined holy Granth Saheb as a Living Guru for ever.
Titbits….
1714 – People riot due to beer tax in Netherlands.
You may have known….
A pelican can hold up to 3 gallons of water in its pouch – nearly three times of what it can hold in its stomach.
(Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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