Today’s Motto: ‘No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist’

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

On this day,  Oct.12……..

1492 – Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall on Caribbean island, he names it San Salvador (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia, Bharat Varsh.

1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs). (The Mackintosh or raincoat {abbreviated as mac or mack} is a form of waterproof raincoat, first sold in 1824, made out of rubberised fabric. The Mackintosh is named after its Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh, though many writers add a letter k (this variant spelling “Mackintosh” is now standard}).
1860 – British & French troops capture Beijing (then called Peking). (The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Franco-British expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing dynasty {present day China}, lasting from 1856 to 1860. Second Opium War” and “Arrow War” are both used in literature. “Second Opium War” refers to one of the British tactical objectives: legalising the opium trade, expanding coolie trade, opening all of China to British merchants, and exempting foreign imports from internal transit duties. The “Arrow War” refers to the name of a vessel which became the starting point of the conflict (pic credit -Pinterest).
1879 – British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan. (The Second Anglo–Afghan War was fought between the United Kingdom and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880).
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt renames “Executive Mansion,” “The White House”.
1928 – First use of iron lung on a young girl in Boston’s Children Hospital. (It was an artificial respirator that enabled her to breathe despite being paralysed by polio).
1964 – Space race. (It was the world’s first multi-manned spacecraft, and the first to carry a scientist {Konstaintin Feoktistov} and a physician {Boris Yegorov} into space. In the rush to launch before the US Gemini flights, the crew were left at risk with no spacesuits, ejection seats, or escape tower. The mission returned television pictures of the crew from space, and it had a significant worldwide impact. The Gemini flights had been upstaged

by the success, and the effect in the US was to heat up the “space race.” The crew returned to land after 16 orbits of the earth, 1 day and 17 min after they had left).
1967 – National Conference, the Working Committee of Jammu and Kashmir, unanimously passed the proposal to a permanent merger of the state with India.
1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
2002 – Terrorists explode two bombs in Bali’s nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209, mostly foreign tourists.
2017 – Long-lost bust of Napoleon by Auguste Rodin confirmed found in Madison borough hall, New Jersey, worth at least $4m.
2022 – UN General Assembly passes a resolution condemning Russia’s attempted annexation of Ukrainian territory.
Born….
1891 – Maharaja Bhupinder Singh (of Patiala) , also a cricketer and sports administrator.

1979 – Kunaal Roy Kapur, Bollywood and TV actor.
RIP….
1967 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia also known as “Dauntless Dr. Lohia”, freedom fighter, social reformer and socialist leader.

He had founded the ‘Praja Socialist Party’ in 1952 after differences with then PM Nehru.
You may have known….
In 2016 police officers arrested 102 year-old Eddie Simms so that she could cross the experience off her bucket list.                                                                                                                                      {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}