Motto for Today: ‘Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.’

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

On this day, Oct. 17………

1855 – Bessemer steelmaking process patented. (A steel-making process was patented by Sir Henry Bessemer, a British inventor and metallurgist. His patent was for a method of making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to remove impurities and excess carbon. The “Bessemer Process,” made it possible to mass-produce steel inexpensively. The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel. It was also called Gilchrist-Thomas process after the discoverer Sidney Gilchrist Thomas).

1919 – The Khilafat Movement was launched under the leadership of Maulana Jauhar Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad. (The Khilafat movement {1919–26} was a pan-Islamic, political protest campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British government. The movement became the reason for separation from mainland India of an Islamic Pakistan, in the process unleashing tremendous separation-trauma, mainly upon ethnic Punjabis. The subsequent murder of Gandhi in India was also the indirect fallout of the Khilafat Movement).

1949 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopted Article 370 of the Constitution making special provisions for J&K.

1956 – The Queen opened Calder Hall, the first gas-cooled and Britain’s first nuclear power station in the shadow of the massive chimneys of the Windscale plant, where explosives were made for Britain’s first atomic bomb. “This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction,” she said, “is harnessed for the first time for the common

good of our community.”

1979 – Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1994 – Kapil Dev’s final one-day international (v West Indies).

2003 – Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.
2006 The United States population reaches 300 million.

2019 – Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s acting chief of staff says the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to further Trump’s own political interests.
Born….

1947 – Simi Garewal, film actor and TV host.

1947 – Brinda Karat, politician.

1955 – Smita Patil, actor.

1970 – Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer, a right-arm leg spinner. (Nicknamed ‘Jumbo’, his 619 wickets in Test cricket made him the third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket; behind Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne).

RIP….

1981 – Kannadasan, Tamil poet, writer and lyricist.

Titbits….

1814 – At night, a deadly flood of beer was caused from the Horseshoe brewery, London. The metal bands of an immense beer brewing vat snapped releasing a tidal wave of 3,555 barrels of Porter beer, which swept away the brewery walls, flooded nearby basements, collapsed several tenements and resulted in eight deaths.

1959 – Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse.

2008 – Iran’s attempt to create the world’s largest sandwich (1,500 metres) fails when crowds eat it before it can be measured.
You may have known….
People of Papua Guinea wear the smoked fingers and hands of dead relatives as jewellery.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

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