Today’s Motto: ‘It is an irony of life that a boo is invariably louder than a cheer’
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, 10 Oct….
1780 – Great Hurricane kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean, hitting Barbados island first. Atlantic’s deadliest recorded hurricane (pic credit-worldatlas.com).
1796 – According to an unfounded legend, the metric system was born. (The Oct 10 date seems to signify the base 10 way of using measurements. A real birth date might be 8 May 1790, when acting on a motion by a bishop, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, the French National Assembly decided to create a simple, stable. decimal system of measurement units. The e
arliest metre unit chosen was the length of a pendulum with a half-period of a second).
1865 – John Hyatts patents Billard Ball. He was the winner of a $10,000 prize offered for the best substitute for an ivory ball. He combned introcellulose, camphor and alcohol, heated the mixture under pressure to make it pliable for molding, and allowed it to harden under normal atmospheric pressure. His discovery opened the way for the development of the modern plastic industry (pic credit-poolroom.com).
1899 – IR Johnson patents bicycle frame. (The frame could could be separated or folded to store in the truck of a car or other small places.
1933 – First synthetic detergent, “Dreft” by William Procter & James Gamble, goes on sale. 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 (pic credit-wikipedia.com).
1946 – The Noakhali genocide began, marked by the murder, rape, and forced conversion of Hindus in East Bengal f
ollowing the “Direct Action Day” on August 16. Over 4 lakh Hindus were massacred or converted to Islam. Even Mahatma Gandhi was not allowed by rioting muslims to enter the area for peace efforts.
1952 – US mediator Frank Graham told the U.N. Security Council that there was a p
ossibility of war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
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.
1963 – The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (LTBT), signed by Britain, America and the Soviet Union, comes into operation.
1970 – Union Government under PM Indira Gandhi, ruled out any judicial probe into the death of the la
te PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
1976 – Beijing reports arrest of Mao Zedong’s widow Jiang Quing. Though she was an ardent worker of Chinese Communist Party under Mao,. she was called a leader of the Gang of Four and put in jail. She spent 12 years in jail and was reported to have committed suicide in May1991 (pic credit-visiontimes.com).
2001 – Construction begins on the Viaduc de Millauof bridge on the River Tarn in southern Franhighest road bridgece. 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.
Born….1954 – Rekha, (Bhanurekha Ganeshan), an iconic actress of Indian cinema known for her roles and on-screen presence. Daughter of Tamil actors Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli, she debuted as child artist at 4 years age with films Inti Guttu and Rangula Ratnam, she entered Hindi cinema with Sawan Bhadon and continued to do successful films like Ghar, Mukaddar Ka Sikander, Khoobsoorat, Basera, Ek Hi Bhool, Utsav, Kalyug, Vijeta, Umrao Jaan, Rampur Ka Lakshman, Kahani Kismat Ki, Kamasutra, Koi Mil Gaya, Krish, Namak Haraam and Silsila etc. She was belived to have very intimate relations with Bollywood heros Vinod Mehra and Amitabh Bachchan; yet latershe married a businessman Mukesh Aggarwal in 1990. She was nominated to 
Rajya Sabha in 2012. She has won a National Film award and 3 Filmfare awards and was honoured with Padma Shri by Govt. of India.
1990 – Rakul Preet Singh, Telugu, Tamil and Hndi film actress and known for Gilli (Kannada) and Keratam, Venkatadri Express (Telgu) and Yaariya, De De Pyaar De, Runway 34, etc. in Hindi. She was nominated to a Filmfare and won a Filmfare South and some other awards in serials etc. (pic credit-IMDb.com)
RIP….1964 – Guru Dutt (Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone), a legendary film actor, choreographer writer and p
roducer/director. He is known many popular and artistic films like CID, Saheb Bibi Aur Ghulam, Paper Flowers, Baaz, Baazi, Jaal, Saanjh Aur Savera, Love And god, Chaudhvin Ka Chaand, Mr. & Mrs. 55, Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool etc He was known for many creative and tragic roles. He won a National Film Award, a Filmfare and a BFJA award (pic credit-ar.inspiredpencil.com).
2000 – Srimavo Bandaranaike, the world’s first woman Prime Minister- ruled Sri Lanka thrice sbetween 1960 to 1965; 1970 to 1977, and 1994 to 2000. Following the assassination of her husband in SWRD Bandaranaike in Sept. 1959, she took over the Party leadership and later became PM. Her daughter Chandrika Kumaratumge also became the President of the island nation.
2011 – Jagjit Singh, the legendary Ghazal singer, composer and classical musician. Known as Ghazal Samrat of India, he married a divorcee singer Chitra Singh, the two had a son Vivek Singh who died 
young at 20 leaving the couple heart broken. His ghazals broght him many laurels and was associated with famous music companies EMI, HMV etc. He also gave ghazal/song performances to films like Bahuroop, Arth, Prem Geet, Avishkaar, Ek Baar Kaho, Sitam, Tum Laut Aao, Laong Da Lashkara, Mirza Ghalib, Kehkashan, Sarfarosh etc. He performed in the Parliament House special Diplomatic concert in 2007 (150th Anniversary of 1857 Freedom Struggle). He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2007.
You may have kn
own…. The term Karwa Chauth means “Karwa – earthen pot,” and “Chauth,” which means “the fourth.” It is a North Indian festival celebrating the bond between husband and wife, observed by married women who fast for their husbands’ longevity and prosperity. During this festival, Hindu married women observe rigorous fast from dawn till the moonrise. The festival’s origin is attributed to several Hindu legends, including the story of Karva, a devoted wife who saved her husband
from a crocodile by invoking the God of death, and Queen Veeravati, whose devotion brought her husband back to life after he was mistakenly believed to have died. (pic credit-pngfree.com). {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
