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On this day, 02 Oct….

1845 – First Shipping Company of India started.

1866 – J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener. (The can opener wasn’t invented until 48 years after the invention of the can. In 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte was having problems with his supply lines. Specifically, they were too long for the food preservation methods at the time, making it difficult to adequately supply his troops with needed food. Thus, he offered a 12,000-franc prize for anyone who invented a preservation method that would allow his army’s food to remain unspoiled during its long journey to the troops’ stomachs. In 1810, Nicholas Appert won the prize for his method of keeping food fresh by sterilization. Later that year Peter Durand received a patent from King George III for the world’s first can made of iron and tin. The early cans were far too thick for any dedicated can opener and were opened by brute force. The first such tool popped up in 1858, almost a half century after the can was invented. This is similar to the kind you still see sardines packed in today).

1895 – First cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper.

1912 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, at invitation of Gandhi, arrives in South Africa on a 26-day tour; he also visits Tolstoy Farm.

1934 – Indian Naval Force was established. {The earliest known reference to an organization devoted to ships in ancient India is to the Mauryan Empire from the fourth century BCE. Emperor Chandragupta Maurya’s Prime Minister Kautilya’s Arthashastra devotes a full chapter on the state department of waterways under navadhyaksha (Sanskrit for Superintendent of ships). The term, nava dvipantaragamanam (Sanskrit for sailing to other lands by ships, i.e. Exploration) appears in this book in addition to appearing in the Sanskrit text, Baudhayana Dharmasastra as the interpretation of the term, Samudrasamyanam. In 1612, the English East India Company established the East India Company’s Marine to protect its merchant shipping off the Gulf of Cambayand up the Narmada and Tapti rivers. Its first fighting ships in India were acquired on 5 September 1612. In 1934, the navy was renamed as the Royal Indian Navy).

1950 – Comic strip Peanuts published for the first time.

1951 – Dr. Shyamprasad Mukharjee established Bhartiya Jan Sangh Party.

1954 – Chandernagar, former state under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal.

1957 – “The Bridge on the River Kwai”, directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Alec Guinness, is released. (It is a World War II epic film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. The movie was filmed in Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. The film was widely praised, winning seven Academy Awards).
1957 – All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party ‘Republican Party of India’ was formed.

1971 – Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race.

1986 -Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made at Raj Ghat.

Born….

1869 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi). He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi and his fourth wife Putlibai.

1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India (1964-66). Was born in Mughalsarai near Benaras in Uttar Pradesh.

1942 – Asha Parekh, actor.

RIP….

1906 – Raja Ravi Verma. He is remembered for his artistic work in ‘Ram Panchayatan’, ‘Vishwamitra-Menaka’, ‘Shakuntala writing a letter’, ‘Shiv Parvati’. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour.

1975 – Kumaraswami Kamaraj, political leader.

You may have known….

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Good morning. Have a nice day !

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