Today’s Motto: ‘World is full of unsuccessful people with talent who did not grab the chance’

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

On this day, Oct.16……

1868 – Denmark ended its involvement in India by selling the rights to the Nicobar Islands to the British.

1905 – The provincial state of Bengal was partitioned, effectively dividing the province on religious lines into Eastern Bengal and Assam (with a population of 31 million), and the rest of Bengal (with a population of 54 million comprising 18 million Bengalis and 36 million Biharis and Oriyas.

1928 – A U.S. patent was issued for the first electric light bulb frosted on the inside with sufficient strength for commercial handling. The advantages of frosting the inside of a bulb (versus the outside) are less absorption of light and less collection of dust.

1942 – Cyclone struck Bengal, claiming around 40,000 lives.

1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi (pic credit -Pakistan Observer).

1951 – The first motion picture in the U.S. of the inside of a living heart was shown at the clinical session of the New York Academy of Medicine. A dog’s heart was the subject of the 9-1/2 minute colour film, which showed the opening and closing of the mitral valve. This structure was of interest because it is often crippled by rheumatic fever.

1964 – China detonated the country’s first atomic bomb, and became the fifth country with nuclear arms after the US (1945), UK (1953), the USSR (1961), and France.

1973 – Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal. (It was a bold move by the Israelis, where they crossed the Suez Canal to the West, penetrated between Egyptian 2nd and 3rd Armies and surrounded one of them).

1978 – Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad.

1987 – Paul Holc became the youngest person in the world known to have an organ transplant of any kind when he received a new heart at just three hours old.

1991 – Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi.

1994 – CIA connection to CN Annadurai alleged in a book on TN Seshan. Jayalalitha obtains stay.

1999 – Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the “Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99”.

Born….

1948 – Hema Malini, veteran South and Bollywood actor who became a youth heart-throb with several Jubilee films like Abhinetri,,  Charas. Johney Mera Naam, Dream Girl, Sholley etc. She married romantic Hero Dharmendra Kumar (pic credit – Newstrend)

1975 – Rajeev Khandelwal, Bollywood actor.

RIP….

1974 – Chembai Bhagavatar, Carnatic music singer.

1992 – Capt. P. K. Sahgal of Azad Hind Fauz, during the trial at the Red Fort, said, “Because I wanted freedom for my motherland , I was ready to shed my blood for it.”

You may have known….
When counting in English, your lips won’t touch until you reach 1 million.

 

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