Today’s Motto: ‘We should focus not on foreseeing future, but on enabling it’
As every day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Oct.26…….
1492 – Lead pencils 1st used. (Modern pencils owe it all to an ancient Roman writing instrument called stylus? Scribes used this thin metal rod to leave a light, but readable mark on papyrus {an early form of paper}. Other early styluses were made of lead, which is what we still call pencil cores, even though they actually are made of non-toxic graphite. But pencil history doesn’t stop there… Graphite came into widespread use following the discovery of a large graphite deposit in Borrowdale, England in 1564).
1863 – Worldwide Red Cross organised in Geneva. (The Red Cross idea was born in 1859, when Henry Dunant, a young Swiss man, came upon the scene of a bloody battle in Solferino, Italy, between the armies of imperial Austria and the Franco-Sardinian alliance. Some 40,000 men lay dead or dying on the battlefield and the wounded were lacking medical attention).
1916 – Margaret Sanger, who was advocating birth control, was arrested for obscenity.
1947 – Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu & Kashmir, accedes to India.
1950 – Mother Teresa established her Mission of Charity in Calcutta.
1962 – After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President.
1962 – JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
1984 – Baby Fae became the first new-born recipient of a cross-species heart transplant.
2013 – In an effort to repair strained relations after news reports cite the U.S. spied on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone, President Barack Obama. congratulates the Chancellor on the formation of her new cabinet, and invites her to Washington.
2019 – Raid by US Special Forces kills ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria.
2020 – NASA announces there is more water on the Moon than previously thought, in sunlit as well as shadowed regions.
Born….
1886 – Godavarish Mishra, famous Orria poet, playwright and patriot (pic credit -Wickipedia)
1974 – Ravina Tandon, Bollywood actor (photo credit-Teqiq)
RIP….
1943 – Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
1972 – Igor I. Sikorsky, was a Russian-born U.S. pioneer in aircraft design who is best known for his successful 
development of the helicopter.
1990 – V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee.
You may have known….
When we blush, our stomach turns red along with our face.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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