Motto for Today: ‘Attention is the rarest form of generosity.’

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

On this day, Oct. 03…

1831 – Britishers captured Mysore.

1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. (He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States. Considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre).

1863 – US President Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

1899 – J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner.

1906 – SOS adopted as warning signal by first conference on wireless telegraphy. (SOS remained the maritime radio distress signal until 1999, when it was replaced by the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System. SOS is still recognised as a visual distress signal).

1922 – First facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.

1945 – Elvis Presley’s first public appearance at the age of 10.

1952 – First video recording on magnetic tape.

1952 – UK tests its first atomic bomb.

1974 – Pele retires as soccer player. (Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest football player of all time).

1977 – Indira Gandhi arrested. (Mrs Gandhi’s arrest had been the topic of discussion at almost every “informal Cabinet meeting” of the Janta Party. Industry Minister George Fernandes and Health Minister Raj Narain, and others had been pressing for Mrs Gandhi’s immediate arrest. The Prime Minister Morarji Desai had advised caution: “We must take action only according to the law,” he had warned).

2010 – An audio recording by Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden says Muslim nations haven’t done enough to support relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan.

2013 – While in Indonesia, Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans for a “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”, linking China to Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean (Belt and Road Initiative / One Belt One Road)

2018 – First exomoon, moon outside the solar system, discovered 8,000 years away (size of Neptune) by astronomers at Columbia University.
Born….

1824 – General Sam Browne. (On 31 Aug 1858, then Captain Samuel James Browne of 2nd PUNJAB, had his left arm severed by a sword in a hand-to-hand combat in Seerporah, Rohilkhand, Uttar Pradesh. For this he was awarded a Victoria Cross. As compensation for the difficulty his disability caused with wearing his officer’s sword, he started wearing a wide belt supported by a narrower strap passing diagonally over the right shoulder. This later became used commonly by the British Army, and is known as Sam Browne belt).

1903 – Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist.

1943 – Gurcharan Das, writer.

1949 – JP Dutta, film director.

1945 – Elvis Presley’s first public appearance at the age of 10.

You may have known….
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

 

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