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On this day, Oct.27……..

1775 – U.S. Navy forms.

1873 – Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applied for a patent on barbed wire. This product would transform the West. Before this innovation, settlers on the treeless plains had no easy way to fence livestock away from cropland, and ranchers had no way to prevent their herds from roaming far and wide. Glidden’s barbed wire opened the plains to large-scale farming, and closed the open range, bringing the era of the cowboy and the round-up to an end. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered the inventor of barbed wire.

1891 – Philip B. Downing, inventor, was awarded a U.S. patent for an improvement to the street letter (mail) box. This improvement in the covering and opening of outdoor mailboxes protected mail from both intruders and weather. It is relatively unchanged to this day.

1904 – The first underground and underwater rail system in the U.S., the New York City Subway, began operating.

1947 – Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh’s accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting of 1 SIKH Batallion from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir. Infantry; the Queen of the Battle, celebrates 27 October each year as the Infantry Day, which has a historical significance for our Nation.

2010 – A free trade accord between India and Malaysia is announced.

2017 – First operation to separate conjoined twins joined at the head in India completed in New Delhi.

Born….

1811 – Isaac Merrit Singer, American inventor of a practical sewing machine.

1907 – Sardar Bhagat Singh, the great martyr, was born in village Banga, Lyallpur (now in Pakistsan) in a reputed Sikh freedom fighter’s family.

1920 – KR Narayanan, Scholar, Diplomat, Minister, Ambassador, President.

1923 – Arvind Navinchandra Mafatlal, famous industrialist.

1954 – Anuradha Paudwal, singer.

1976 – Pooja Batra, actor.

1984 – Irfan Pathan, cricketer.

RIP….

1969 – Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.

1987 – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71).

2001 – Pradeep Kumar, actor.

Titbits….

1916 – 1st published reference to “jazz” appears (Variety).

You may have known….

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.

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