Today’s Motto: ‘When you really want something,…………..

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

On this day, Oct.19…..

1722 – Frenchman C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher.

1774 – Members of the Council and the Judge of Supreme Court of England came to improve the management in India.

1913- At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in Durban, NIC secretaries, M. C. Anglia and Dada Osman, severely criticised Mahatma Gandhi and tendered their resignations. (pic credit -SA History)

1914 – US post office first used an automobile to collect & deliver mail.

1919 – First Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman.

1952 – Alain Bombard, a 27-yr-old French biologist and physician, left the Canary Islands, beginning a single-handed sea voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive without provisions. He speared fish with a home-made harpoon and netted surface plankton. He drank seawater, limited to occasional sips. His Zodiac inflatable boat, l’Hérétique, was just 4.5 m long and fitted with a sail. Bombard began with almost no provisions and his only navigation instrument was a sextant. He reached Barbados 65 days later having lost about 25-kg in weight.  (Photo credits-  Keystone, Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1970 – Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished by Indira Gandhi Govt.

1973 – A US Federal Judge declared the ENIAC patent invalid and belatedly credited physicist John Atanasoff with developing the first electronic digital computer.

1990 – The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may be referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution.

2003 – Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beautified by Pope John Paul II.

2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

2016 – Third US Presidential debate: Donald Trump notably refuses to say if he will accept the result of election during debate with Hillary Clinton at Nevada University, Las Vegas.

Born….

1910 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, mathematician and Nobel Laureate.

1929 – Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56).

1954 – Priya Tendulkar, popular TV and film actor.

1956 – Sunny Deol, popular Punjabi, Bollywood actor,, son of veteran hero Dharmendra  and BJP Member Parliament.

RIP….

2006 – Srividya, South actor.

2011 – George Varghese Kakkanadan, Malayalam short story writer and novelist.

You may have known….
When Harvard University was first founded, calculus class was not offered because it had not yet been discovered/invented. (Harvard was founded in 1636. Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently discovered calculus in the mid-17th century. However, both inventors claimed that the other had stolen his work, and the Leibniz-Newton calculus controversy continued until the end of their lives).

                                                                                                     

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