Today’s Motto: ‘Don’t let your life feel like a test you didn’t study for’

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

On this day, Oct.15……..

1492 – Christopher Columbus noted in his Journal the use of tobacco among Indians—the first recorded reference to tobacco.

1686 – Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi’s era.

1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St. Helena to begin his exile. (Napoleon was one of the greatest commanders in history, his campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide and he remains one of the most celebrated and controversial political figures in Western history).

1860 – 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard. (It influenced Abraham Lincoln to

grow his familiar beard. Lincoln later met with Bedell).

1917 – A Parisian dancer Mata Hari is executed for espionage by the French Government after being convicted of passing military secrets to Germany.

1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.

1949 – Process of the integration of the Indian States was completed when the last three states – Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged.

1950 – The first American radio paging service, Aircall of New York City, sent the first page to a doctor who was on a golf course 25 miles away.

1997 – Arundhati Roy, Delhi-based author wins Britain’s most prestigious literary award ‘Booker Prize’ for her novel “The God of Small Things”‘.

2000 – Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand.

2003 – China became the third nation to send a man into space.

2017 – Actress Alyssa Milano’s tweet “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’” prompts flood of replies across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

2018 – Indian minister and former editor MJ Akbar files a defamation case after being accused of sexual harassment by multiple women in #MeToo case.
Born….

1542 – Abū al-Fatḥ Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Akbar, third Mughal Emperor of India.

1931 – Avil Pakir Jalaluddin Abdul Kalam better known as “APJ”, famous Indian scientist and pioneer of India’s missile program

, and 11th President of India.

1957 – Mira Nair, Bollywood film director.

RIP….

1918 – Shirdi ke Saibaba’ better known as ‘Saibaba’.

1990 – Om Shivpuri, theater actor/director and Bollywood character actor (pic credit- IMDb).

You may have known….
The low pressure and humidity in airplanes changes the sensitivity of people’s taste buds , so airlines food is made sweeter and saltier than normal.

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