Today’s Motto: ‘Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and…..

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

On this day, 11 Oct…

1881 – David Houston patents roll film for cameras.  His many patents ranged from a disc plow to a portable camera. George Eastman bought 21 patents on cameras from him, including the invention that made Houston famous – a portable camera, for which Houston received $5,000 plus monthly royalties for life. This camera suited the everyday person, rather than a professional photographer’s studio camera on wheels. First sold by Eastman in 1881 for $25, the Kodak camera came loaded with 100-exposure film that Houston would process and reload the camera for $10. Houston died a rich man in 1906 (pic credit-ndstudies.com).

1887  – Alexander  Miles patents automatic opening-closing elevator doors (pic credit-thoughtco.com).

1887 – A patent for the adding machine was granted to Dorr Eugene Felt of Chicago. (His Comptometer was the first practical key-driven calculator with sufficient speed, reliability, and economic benefit. He called his original prototype the “Macaroni box”).

1890 – Jesse Owens, an American  athlete   completes  the First 100-yard Race below  10 seconds (9-4/5 secs), in Washington.

1890 – Daughters of American Revolution founded. It was founded during a time that was marked by a revival in patriotism and intense interest in the beginnings of the United States of America. Women felt the desire to express their patriotic feelings and were frustrated by their exclusion from men’s organizations formed to perpetuate the memory of ancestors who fought to make this country free and independent. As a result, a group of pioneering women in the nation’s capital formed their own organization, and the Daughters of the American Revolution has carried the torch of patriotism ever since (pic credit-fityclub).

1939 – Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of Atomic Bomb.

1962 – Chinese, Indian troops clash on border, claiming 50 lives. By the end of  clashes, Chinese trops had seized large areas of  Aksai Chin, Siachin Glacier and North-Western parts of  Pak occupied  Kashmir.

1983 – The last hand-cranked (magneto) telephone in the US went out of service.

1986 – Mother Teresa escapes unhurt from a plane crash which killed six in Tanzania.

1990 – Libya’s Qadhafi says Israel must be eliminated. He was a military commander, revolutionary leader who overthrew the local govt. and ruled over Libya from 1969 to 2011, when he was  forced to quit in  another Civil War.

1991 – BJP government in UP acquires the disputed Ayodhya land.

2008 – The first train service in the Kashmir Valley was flagged off by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from Naugam station.

Born…. 1902 – Jai Prakash Narayan, popularly  called JP, was   a prominent Independence activist/reformer. His wife Prabhavati was also a freedom fighter and associate of Gandhi ji at Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad. JP was pulled into  the movement and followed  Gandhi, Nehru  Maulana Azad, later  to Marxism,  Bolshevik’s in Soviet  War  and socialist ideas. Studied in  Berkley Unoiversity in California, he was an associate of  Lohia,  Minoo Masani, Achyut Patwardhan and others, he  opposed PM Nehru’s  policies  after Independence against Labour laws (presided All India  Railwaymen’s Federation). He took a strong  opposition to PM Indira Gandhi’s Emergency in 1975 and called for Saqmpoorna Kranti, bringing down her regime  and installing Janata Party  Govt. Later dejected by the fall of Janta govt. he  went to Patna on Oct. 08, 1979.                                                                                                                            He was  honoured with Bharat Ratna (1999) posthumously,  and  Ramon Magsaysay award and other honours.

1941 – Amitabh Bachchan, prominent Bollywood  actor called  Mahanayak and  Actor of the Century for his long and successful film career.  Son of a noted poet  Harivansh Rai  Bachchan, he entered films thru’  Mrinal Sen’s Bhuwan Shome as voice artist and later Saat Hindustani, Parwana, Reshma aur Shera, Guddi, Bombay to Goa,  Zanjeer,   Trishul, Shakti, Deewar,  Namak Haraam,  Anand, Chupke Chupke,  Sholey, Kabhie Kabhie etc. over 200 films, most of them high grossimg  Box Office ventures. He also  won an election to the Lok Sabha from  Allahabad in 1984 defeating big gun HN Bahuguna.  He started a film  production company ABCL but  it flopped soon.  He is also an anchor in  a successful  TV show KBC (Kaun Banega Crorepati). His wife Jaya and son  Abhishek and daughter-in-law   Aiswvarya Rai  are also popular actors.  He has won 6 National Film and 16  Filmfare awards,                                                                                 1968 – Chandrachur Singh, an impressive  Bollywood   and TV actor.  He is known for roles in Maachis, Josh, Kya Kehna,  Sardar Paar, Aamdani Atthanni-Kharcha Rupaiyya etc. and  TV serials Saavdhan India, Royal  Rasoi, Aarya, Dil Bekrara etc. He has won a Filmfare award, an IIFA and a Screen award.

RIP…. 1889 – Jamess Prescott Joule. English physicist who established that the various forms of energy – mechanical, electrical, and heat – are basically the same and can be changed from one into another. The SI unit of energy or work, the joule – symbol J – is named after him.                                      You May Have  known ….  1. Improved access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene could avert up to 1.4 million deaths annually, with 395,000 of those being children under five.

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