Today’s Motto: ‘A leader is a dealer in hope’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On this day, 21 Oct…..
(Police Commemoration Day, observed to honor the police personnel who were ambushed by Chinese troops at Hot Springs in Ladakh).
1934 – Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the ‘Congress So
cialist Party’. Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary (pic credit-iasexpress.net).
1943 – Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader.
1950 – Chinese forces occupy Tibet, deposing Dalai Lama and capturing protesters..
1954 – Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. (The merger took place on November 1).
2000 – Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a gold medal in disc throw in the World Junior Athletic championship in Santiago.
Born…. 1833 -Alfred Nobel, legendary Swedish engineer, scientist, inventor and industrialist, who made huge money in manufacturing explosives viz., Dynamite, Gelignite, Bellistite but later bequeethed all his money (Swedish Koroner 31,225,000) to a Trust which set up 5 Nobel Prizes in world Peace, Chemistry, P
hysics, Medicine, Literature etc. He had registered about 355 patents on his inventions.
1938 – Helen, Rangoon (Burma) born actress, known for many popular sensuous cabaret dances, song sequences like Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo, and more, began her career thru’ films Awara (1951), Howrah Bridge (1958) and appeared in over 500 films over 70 years. She did cabaret dances for Gumnaam, Teesri Manzil, Chhote Sarkar, Sachchai, Don, My Life Partner, Lahun Ke do Rang, Sholey etc. She was awarded Padma Shri and Filmfare Lifetime Achievement award and Raj Kapoor Award etc. She married film story and scriptwriter Salim Khan of Salim-Javed duo and is the other of veteran Salman Khan, Sohail, Arbaaz Khan and Alvira Khan Agnihotri.
1980 – Kim Kardishian – American celebrity, socialite, TV show host and business woman. Se has launched famous brands like Skims, Dash and ShoeDazzle etc. She has written some novels and married 3 times including with Kanye West (2014-22).
RIP…. 1998 – Ajit alias Hamid Ali Khan, veteran Hindi film actor. Coming from Pashtoon a
ncestors in Kandhaar, Kabul and sttled in Hyderabad, his father was a driver of Nizam Mir Osman Ali. Known for many supporting actor or villain roles in films like Naya Daur, Awara, Badal, Beqasoor, Zanjeer, Sharif Badmash, Nastik, Razia Sultan, Mangal Pandey, Kallicharan, Yaadon Ki Baraat, Tower House, Shikari, Kabli Khan etc.
You may have known…. As of 2024, approximately 37% of India’s population lives in urban areas and about 63% lives in rural areas. The 2011 census showed that 31.16% were in urban areas and 68.84% in rural areas, while 
recent estimates and projections show an increasing trend of urbanisation. {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
