Today’s Motto: ‘The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success’

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

On this day, Oct.10……

1865 – John Hyatts patents billiard ball.

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. (Historically, 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.

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.

2019 – 3,500 women are the first to be allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, since the Islamic revolution.

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, prolific English novelist writer.

1927 – Chaudhary Bansilal, ex-CM of Congress was close to Sanjay Gandhi, infamous for Emergency in 1975, later formed Lok Dal Party of Haryana.

1954 – Rekha Ganesan, romantic cine of Tamil and Hindi films like Sil Sila.

RIP….

1964 – Guru Dutt, (real name – Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone) film actor and director.

1992 – Bharat Bhushan, veteran Bollywood actor who played memorable roles in Mirza Ghalib, Barsat Ki Raat etc.

2000 – The world’s first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo.

2011 – Jagjit Singh, versatile Ghazal and Hindi film 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….

Despite being the largest animal on earth the blue whale cannot swallow anything bigger than a beach ball.

 

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