Today’s Motto: ‘Silence is not a void. It must be filled, even if nothing important is said’
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, 14 Oct….
1066 – Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy and Norman army defeat English forces of Harold II. The battle took place approximately 11 kilometres northwest of Hastings and was a decisive Norman victory. The battle lasted from about 9 am to dusk. Early efforts of the invaders to break the English battle lines had little effect; therefore, the Normans adopted the tactic of pretending to flee in panic and then turning on their pursuers. Harold’s death, probably near the end of the battle, led to the retreat and defeat of most of his army. After further marching and some skirmishes, William was crowned as king on Christmas Day 1066 (caricature credit-wikipedia.com).
1882 – Univ
ersity of the Punjab is founded in present-day Pakistan. (Informally Punjab University, it is a public research university located in the downtown area of Lahore. It is the oldest and largest public university in Pakistan, with multiple campuses in Gujranwala, Jhelum, and Khanspur).
1884 – George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. (The film consisted of 
a layer of paper and a coating of insoluble sensitized gelatin emulsion, separated by a layer of soluble gelatin to enable separation after developing the exposed film. He invented this film in Feb 1884. It was flexible, could be wrapped compactly on a roller and used within a roll-holder instead of the glass plate photographic materials then in use. It offered greater convenience, less weight, and freedom from breakage).
1910 – Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama’s agent by the Chinese on the 
Chinese frontier with India.
1956 – Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and about two 
lakh scheduled caste men and women embraced Buddhism in Nagpur.
1964 – Dutch electronics giant Philips begins experimenting with colour TV. (Television broadcasting stations and networks in most parts of the world upgraded from black and white to colour transmission in the 1960s and 1970s, and today virtually all television besides some inexpensive closed-circuit surveillance video systems, is colour television, so the term is becoming redundant and is not used much).
1968 – First live telecast from a manned US spacecraft, Apollo 7. (Captain Walter Schirra, Jr., Major Don n Eisele, and Major Walt Cunningham showed views of the satellite and views through the windows (pic credit-spacecrafts.de).
1989 – Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party under Balasaheb Thackerey, a firebrand Marathi-Hindu leader of Maharashtra.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex. Though she didn’t offer any apology for the massacre of innocent Indians by her soldiers (pic credit-worldtimeshindi.com).
2008 – The Reserve Bank of India announced the release of an additional ₹200 billion to meet the needs of mutual funds, following financial disturbance in the Banking institutions throught the world.
Born…. 1643 – Bahadur Shah I, seventh Mughal emperor of Delhi (1707-1712 AD). Bahadur Shah, known as ‘Prince Muazzam’, was the second son of moughal ruler Aurangzeb. Prince Muazzam was the likely successor of Aurangzeb after his elder brother joined forces with his father’s brother and rival Shah. Shuja.
1884 – Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter. Delhi born brilliant student of St. Stephens Delhi, who went to Oxford University after completing B.A. in Sanskrit. He mobilised U.K. and Europe based Indian to support Freedom Movement. He joined Communist Workers Party of Germany, organised a strike. Later he went to United States is belived to have
been poisoned by someone. He died on March 04, 1939. Lala Hardayal wrote many books on Indian philisophy, Buddhist and social issues. Govt. of India released a postal stamp in his memory in 1997.
You may have known…. 1. For Google Street View, the idea was to send out a fleet of vehicles equipped with cameras to document every inch of the Earth. In fact, your abode is probably on Street View r
ight now. But how to document places where vehicles can’t tread, whether in the sun-soaked deserts of the Arabian Peninsula or the snowy peaks of Nepal and mighty devastating Glaciers? (pic credit-fityclub). 
2. The most recent data from India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) indicates that 29,670 rape cases were reported in 2023. The national average rape rate, which normalises th
e numbers by population, was 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2021 (depictive pic from AI). {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
