Motto for Today: ‘The cautious seldom err.’

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

On this day, Oct. 10…
1780 – Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic’s deadliest recorded hurricane.
1865 – John Hyatts patents billard ball. (He was the winner of a $10,000 prize offered for the best substitute for an ivory ball. He combined introcellulose, camphor and alcohol, heated the mixture under pressure to make it pliable for moulding, and allowed it to harden under normal atmospheric pressure. His discovery opened the way for the development of the modern plastic industry).
1899 – IR Johnson patents bicycle frame. (The frame could be separated or folded to store in the truck of a car or other small places.
1933 – First synthetic detergent, “Dreft” by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale. (Soap had been used to clean clothes for nearly 2000 years, but had poor performance in hard water. In 1920s the P&G researchers created special two-part “miracle molecules”, one end of which pulled dirt out of clothes while the other clung to water, suspending dirt until it could be washed away. Dreft eliminated the problem associated with soap and gently cleaning lightly soiled clothes).
1952 – US mediator Frank Graham told the U.N. Security Council that there was a possibility of war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
1970 – Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
1976 – Beijing reports arrest of Mao Zedong’s widow.
2001 – Construction begins on the Viaduct de Millau of bridge on the River Tarn in southern France as the highest road bridge. The Millau Viaduct designed by Sir Norman Foster, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world. The tallest pylon is 340 metres high, making it the world’s highest road bridge.
1978 – Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship.
2014 – Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
2021 – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says country won’t bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to “fulfil reunification”.

Born….
1906 – RK Narayan, writer.
1927 – Bansilal, leader of Lokdal Party.
1954 – Rekha Ganesan, actor.
RIP….
1964 – Gurudutt, film actor and director.
1992 – Bharat Bhushan, actor.
2000 – The world’s first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo.
2011 – Jagjit Singh, singer.
Titbits….
1957 – US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.
You may have known….
Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces
Good morning. Have a nice day.                                                                                                                    (pics credits- Samaygyan, India Great)

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