Today’s Motto: ‘‘Excitement is an important part of life; without it, we have nothing’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to p!erform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book !
his is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On ths day, 03 Oct….
1670 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj launched his second raid on Surat which was under Mughal rule.
1831 – British army captures Mysore.
1880 – First Marathi musical play, Sangeet Shakuntal, staged in Pune.
1906 – SOS adopted as warning signal.
1922 – First facsimile photo sent over telephone lines.
1952 – First v
ideo recording on magnetic tape believed to be by Nikola Tesla (pic credit-recording-history.org).
1977 – Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was arrested on corruption charges related to the purchase of jeeps for her election campaign. PM Morarji Desai was not in favour of her arrest but Finance Minister Charan Singh insisted, as a retaliatory action, which later boomerage
d. She was released by the Court soon.
1978: The first Indian test-tube baby was born in Kolkata. This was the second such birth in the world.
1984 – The first long-distance train, the Himsagar Express, was started. Beginning its journey from the southern-most town of India, Kanyakumari to the northern pilgrimage 
station Vaishno Devi in J&K, It covered 3,790 km distance in 73 kours at an average speed of 52 km per hour, stopping at 73 stations (pic credit-Indian Railways).
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992: – Geet (Sriram) Sethi won the World Professional Billiards Championship with a record 1,276 break points in Billiards..
2010 – The 19th Commonwealth Games opened in Delhi. A total of 4,352 athletes from 71 Commonwealth nations and dependencies competed 272 events across 21 sports, making it the largest Commonwealth Games, in terms of participation, to date. The events were held across 12 venues. Australia led the medal tally with 177 medals including 74 golds. India achieved its best performance ev
er at the Commonwealth Games, finishing second, winning 101 medals including 38 golds (pic credit-lastdodo.com).
2018 – The most expensive whisky ever sold at auction is the Macallan Valerio Adami. The 1926 make brand, sold for $1.1 million in Edinburgh, Scotlan
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Born…. 1903 – Swami Ramanand Tirth, freedom fighter, social activist and educationist. Born as Vyenkatesh Bhagvanrao Khedgikar in Gjranwala distt. of Punjab (now in Pakistan), he led his volunteers to free Hyderabad riyasat from Osman Ali Khan’s rule, in 1948. Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao established a memorial in Hyderabad and Swami Ramanand Tirath University was established in Nanded in 1994, having 172 colleges in the Marathwada region.
RIP…. 19
23 – Kadambini Bose Ganguly from Bhagalpur was the first woman graduate and a physician in India (pic credit-trendynews.com).
You may have known…. The exact total number of women who have committed Sati throughout history is unknown, but there were 28 officially reported cases between 1943 and 1987 in India. The last reported case was that of 18-year-old Roop Kanwar in September 1987, which spa
rked widespread condemnation and led to the Indian government enacting the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987, to ban the practice.
(pic credit-studyiq.com) {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
