Today’s Motto: ‘It is agonising to keep an untold story locked inside yourself’
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, 06 Oct….
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock. (Self-winding clocks supplied robust time you could depend on for synchronisation. T
he clocks helped with railroads and other transportation industries. Factories, schools, stores, and other businesses also used the self winding clock. Many of the self winding clocks were not used after 1960s and they’re now becoming collector items (pic credit-emaze.com).
1862 – The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was passed. Called as Indian Penal Code Bare Act 1860, it had 23 Chapters and 511 Sections. It has been changed by Modi govt. in removing many redundent sections and renamed as Nyay Sanhita
1866 – First known train robbery in US – Reno Brothers take $13,000. The four Reno member, (Reno Gang), boarded an eastb
ound train in Indiana wearing masks and totting guns. After emptying one safe and tossing the other out of the window, the robbers jumped off the train and made an easy getaway. Their reign came to an end in 1868 when they all were finally captured after committing a series of train robberies. Prior to this innovation in crime in 1866, holdups had taken place only on trains halted at stations or freight yards (pic credit- legendsof america.com).
1889 – The cabaret Moulin Rogue opens in Palace Blanche, Paris.
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel. It was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from Oct 6 to 25, 1973. With the exception of isolated attacks on Israeli territory on 6 and 9 October, the military combat actions during the war took place on Arab territory. Egypt and Syria wanted to regain the Sinai and the Golan Heights respectively. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat wanted also 
to reopen the Suez Canal. Both did not plan to destroy Israel, although the Israeli leaders could not be sure of it. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in Judaism, which also occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Both the United States and the Soviet Union initiated massive resupply efforts to their respective allies during the war, and this led to a near-confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers. The war had far-reaching implications. The Arab World, which had been humiliated by the lopsided rout of the Egyptian–Syrian–Jordanian alliance in the Six-Day War of 1967, felt psychologically vindicated by early successes in the conflict. In Israel, despite impressive operational and tactical achievements on the battlefield, the war led to recognition that there was no guarantee
it would always dominate the Arab states militarily. These changes paved the way for the subsequent peace process. Though Sadat signed an Accord with Israel at Camp David, his opponents were not happy and he was assasisnated during a victory parade in Cairo on Oct. 06, 1981. (pic credit-alchetron.com).
1983 – Pesident’s rule was imposed in the state of Punjab.
1985 – PT Usha sets record for 400m (Women) in 51.61 seconds at Canberra .
2010 – Software engineers Kevin Systrom (U.S.) and Mike Krieger (Brazilian) launch t
he social media app Instagram (pic credit-standard.co.uk).
Born…. 1946 – Vinod Khanna, great powerful Bollywood actor. Peshawar (now Pakistan) born actor, director, producer and politician had been active in cine world between 1968 and 2015 and appeared in over 140 films debuting from Man nKa Meet to Sacchas Jhootha, Aan Milo Sajna, Mere Apne, Purab Aur Pachhim, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Do Yaar, Haath Ki Safai, Parvarsish, Lahu Ke do Rang, Rajput, Burning Train, Qurbaani, Chandni, Kranti Dabangg etc. He was attracted to Spirituality and worked in Acharya Rajneesh ‘Osho’ Ashrams between 1975 and 1985. He won 2 Filmfare awards, StarDust, Zee Cine and several others. He also elected to Lok sabha from Gurdaspur thrice and became Union Minister for External Affairs and Culture from 2002-04. He was honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke award in 2017.
RIP…. 1963 – Baba Kharak Singh, Sialkot born (now Pakistan), freedom fighter and gran
d old man of Punjab. He was also a playwrite, co-founder of Shirmani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, Sikh Education Committee and Central Sikh League to gather Sikhs against English rule.
1974 – Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, 
nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha. He had resigned as the Defence Minister soon after the Chinese aggression of 1962 after he was accused of being soft to Chinese and opposed to India using Air Force in Sino-India war resulting in Indian defeat.
2007 – Laxmi Mall Singhvi was an Indian jurist, parliamentarian, Hindi scholar, writer and adiplomat. He was the longest serving High Commissioner of India in Britain 1991-97), after V. K. Krishna Menon. He also served in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He wrote several books in Hiindi, English viz., The Tale of Three Cities, Jain Temples, Bharat Aur Hamara Samay etc. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1993. His son Abhishek Manu Singhvi is a prominent lawyer and 5 times Rajya Sabha Member (Congress) since 2006.
You may have known…. In India, female longevity is higher than male longevity. As o
f 2023, the life expectancy at birth was about 70.5 years for males and 73.6 years for female
s. This trend of women living longer holds true across India, though the gap varies by state and has increased over time (pic credit-adzuna.co.za). {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
