Motto for Today: ‘There is no genius without a mix of madness.’

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

On this day, Oct.29…….

1851 – British Indian Association was established in Bengal with Radha Kanta Dev as president and Devendranath Tagore as the Secretary.

1872 – The all-metal windmill was patented.

1945 – The first ball point pen in the U.S. went on sale at Gimbels Department Stores for $12.95. (In Jun 1945, Chicago businessman Milton Reynolds, during a visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, saw Laszlo Biro’s pen in a store, realized the pen’s sales potential and bought a few as samples. He returned to the US, and designed a copy in four months. He began production of his Reynolds’ Rocket pen, ignoring the patent rights of the Argentine manufacturer, Eversharp Co. On the first day of sale, $100,000 worth of his pen was sold. The initial success of Reynolds’ ballpoint pen as a fad did not last. It leaked and was unreliable. By 1948, the price fell below 50 cents. By 1951, his enterprise had failed).

1947 – A forest fire at Concord was drenched with rain produced by seeding cumulus clouds with dry ice, the first such event in the U.S. The rain-making planes were flown over the burning area by seeders. The experimental mission was a joint weather research program of the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the Office of Naval Research. However, natural rainfall followed, caused by natural conditions, so it was not possible to measure the artificial rainfall.

1960 – Muhammad Ali’s 1st professional boxing fight; beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6.

1964 – Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY.

1971 – The first successful use of electricity to repair a bone fracture is reported by surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania. (Electrical currents have been used to heal bone since the mid-1800s, and the effect of electrical stimulation on bone has been long studied and well documented. When human bone is bent or broken, it generates an electrical charge. This low-level electrical charge stimulates the body’s internal repair mechanism).

1988 – China announces an herbal male contraceptive.

1999 – Deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa. This event was known as the 1999 Orissa cyclone ever since. It killed as many as 10,000. Also called the Cyclone 05B and Paradip Cyclone, it was the deadliest storm to hit India after 1971.

2004 – Arabic news network, Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks.

2005 – 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.

2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years.
Born….

1981 – Reema Sen, actor.

1985 – Vijender, boxer.

RIP….

1990 – Vinod Mehra, actor.

You may have known….
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.

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