Today’s Motto: ‘Chance favours only the prepared mind’
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, Oct.11…
1868 – Thomas Alva Edison patents his first invention: electric voice machine.
1881 – David Houston patents film rolls for cameras.
1887 – A Miles patents elevator.
1887 – A patent adding machine was granted to Dorr Eugene Felt of Chicago. (His Comptometer was the first practical key-driven calculator with sufficient speed, reliability and economic benefit. He called his original prototype the “Macaroni box”).
1890 – First 100-yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Washington).
1939 – Albert Einstein informs President FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb.
1962 – Chinese, Indian troops clash on border, claiming 50 lives.
1983 – The last hand-cranked (magneto) telephone in US went out of service.
1986 – Mother Teresa escapes unhurt from a plane crash which killed six in Tanzania.
1990 – Libya’s Qadhafi says Israel must be eliminated.
2013 – Nearly 500,000 people evacuated from India’s Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states in preparation for Cyclone Phailin.
2017 – TripAdvisor customer poll names The Black Swan in Oldstead, North Yorkshire, world’s best restaurant.
2020 – India records more than 7 million cases of COVID-19.
Born….
1902 – Jaiprakash Narayan, political leader who agitated against Indira Gandhi and Emergency. Led to formation of Janata Party Govt.
1941 – Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood actor who ruled silver screen for many decades. Anchors show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepai’ on Sony TV.
1965 – Ronit Roy, Bollywood and TV actor (pic credit – IMDb).
1968 – Chandrachur Singh, Bollywood actor, who was Hero of Maachis and other Kashmir films.
RIP….
1889 – James Presscott Joule. (English physicist, who established that the various forms of energy – mechanical, electrical, and heat – are basically the same and can be changed, one into another. The SI unit of energy or work, the joule – symbol J – is named after him).
2002 – Dina Pathak, veteran film actor who played many character roles in film.
You may have known….
Harvard recommends parents let their children pick their noses to expose them to good bacteria.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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