Motto for Today: ‘If your today looks like yesterday, you are not growing.’

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

On this day, Oct.20……..

1774 – New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed.

1822 – 1st edition of London Sunday Times.

1906 – Dr. Lee DeForest , one of the “fathers of radio,’ announced his three-element electrical vacuum tube, now known as a triode. The ability of this tube to amplify weak signals was an invention as great as radio itself, because it made long-distance communication possible.

1935 – Communist forces end their Long March at Yan’an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence.

1956 – Dr. Hannes Lindemann began his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a small 17-foot boat. He successfully sailed alone across the Atlantic in 76 days in a Klepper foldboat double seat Aerius to which he added an outrigger and mizzen sail.

1962 – Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line. Chinese troops advanced over Indian forces in both theatres, capturing Rezang la in Chushul in the western theatre, as well as Tawang in the eastern theatre. Indian army suffered the following casualties: 1,383 killed, 1,047 wounded, 1,696 missing, and 3,968 captured. The Chinese on the other hand lost 722 soldiers while 1,697 were wounded. (In

1956, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai said he had no claims over Indian-controlled territory. But he later stated that Aksai Chin was already under Chinese jurisdiction. With China not recognising the McMahon Line, Chinese maps showed the North East Frontier Area (NEFA) and Aksai Chin as their territory. India officially claimed Aksai Chin in October 1958. Then, the Dalai Lama escaped to India after a rebellion in Tibet, further straining India-China relations. In 1959 there were major armed clashes between Chinese and Indian troops in August at Longju in the east, and in October at the Kongka Pass in the west).

1983 – The fifth legal definition of the metre was the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

1999 – The Centre accepts the recommendations of the Backward Classes Commission on the inclusion of Jats and other backward classes (OBCs) in Rajasthan except Bharatpur and Dholpur districts.

2011 – The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.

Born….

1905 – Mohan Singh Mahir, famous modern Punjabi poet.

1978 – Virender Sehwag, cricketer.

RIP….

1956 – Lawrence Dale Bell, American aircraft designer and aircraft manufacturer, founder of Bell Aircraft Co, whose experimental X-1 rocket-propelled airplane in 1947 was the first to break the sound barrier in level flight.

You may have known….

Coffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.

Good morning. Have a nice day!                                                                                      (McMohan Line map credits — Indiantimes.com)

{compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kayan}