Today’s Motto: ‘In every forest of despair, there is a tree of hope’

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

On this day, Oct.09……
1000 – Leif Ericson discovers “Vinland” (possibly L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1855 – Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor.
1890 – It is reported, however without evidence, French electric engineer Clement Ader was the first person to actually fly an airplane, but his steam powered bat-like plane ‘Eole’ only rose a few inches off the ground. It was not a sustained flight like the Wright Brothers’ later flight.
1946 – First electric blanket manufactured.
1946 – Jinnah’s 9-point demands conveyed to Congress.
1947 – First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane.
1949 – The Territorial Army of India inaugurated by the Governor General. (The TA has played a significant role

roles in Latur, Maharashtra, Uttarkashi in Garhwal and the super cyclone in Orissa. The Ecological units have arrested man-made environmental degradation by planting millions of trees in Mussoorie hills & Pithoragarh. Uttarakhand, Bikaner & Jaisalmer, Rajasthan and ravines of Chambal in Madhya Pradesh).
1976 – International Dialling Telephone Service started between Mumbai and London.

1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.

1990- Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile.

2012 – Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan.
2019 – Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish forces in Northern Syria after US President Donald Trump announces decision to pull back US forces.

2022 – Brightest cosmic explosion ever seen – a gamma ray burst 2.4 billion light years away, thought to be a massive star collapsing to form a black hole in a 1 in 10,000 year event.
Born….
1534 – Guru Ram Das, 4th Guru of Sikhs and Punjabis. (born in Lahore, – died 1581), Guru (1574 – 81) and founder of Amritsar, the centre of Sikhism and main place of worship – the Harmandir Sahib, or Golden Temple (pic credit – Nitnem Path).
1933 – Sir Peter Mansfield. (English physicist whose work led to the development of MRI. He was the first live subject to undergo MRI test. Awarded Nobel Prize in 2003).

1945 – Amjad Ali Khan, classical musician playing Sarod (pic from his website-www.sarod.com).
RIP….
2006 – Raymond Noorda. (American electrical mechanical engineer, known as father of computer networking.

2006 – Kanshi Ram, veteran politician who founded Bahujan Samaj Party (pic credit- Velivada).
You may have known….
As an average an Indian citizen’s daily water requirement is 135 liters.

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