Motto for Today: ‘Once you have made a mistake, the only thing you can do is laugh at it.’

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

On this day, Oct.14…….

1066 – Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy and Norman army defeat English forces of Harold II. William was crowned as king on Christmas Day 1066. (William the Conqueror was a Norman duke. This victory would ultimately lead to his taking the English crown).

1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan. (Informally Punjab University, it is a public research university located in the downtown area of Lahore. It is the oldest and largest public university in Pakistan, with multiple campuses in Gujranwala, Jhelum, and Khanspur).

1884 – George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.

1910 – Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama’s agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.

1922 – The first automated telephones, the Pennsylvania exchange in New York City, become operational.

1926 – Winnie-the-Pooh Makes his Literary Debut.

1947 – Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes first supersonic flight, flying at Mach 1.015.

1956 – Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and about two lakh scheduled caste men and women embraced Buddhism in Nagpur.

1964 – Philips begins experimenting with colour TV. (Television broadcasting stations and networks in most parts of the world upgraded from black and white to colour transmission in the 1960s and 1970s, and today virtually all television besides some inexpensive closed-circuit surveillance video systems, is colour television, so the term is becoming redundant and is not used much).

1968 – First live telecast from a manned US spacecraft, Apollo 7.

1989 – Indian Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.

1991 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize.

1997 – Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex.

2017 – Producer Harvey Weinstein is expelled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after historical revelations of sexual harassment and rape.

2020 – A copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New York.

Born….

1884 – Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter.

1940 – Cliff Richards, rock vocalist. (Was born in Lucknow).

1950 – Arun Khetrapal. (Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, PVC, was an officer of the Indian Army and a posthumous recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration for valour in face of the enemy. He died in the Battle of Basantar during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. On 16 Dec 1971, Lt. Arun Khetarpal with his two remaining tanks fought off a far larger force and gunned down 10 tanks before he was killed in action).

1981 – Gautam Gambhir, cricketer.

You may have known….

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil) and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

Good morning. Have a nice day.

Raj Kadyan