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This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!

On this day, Oct.18……

1776 – In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders “cock tail”. (The origin of the word cocktail is disputed. The first recorded use of the word cocktail not referring to a horse is found in ‘The Morning Post and Gazetteer in London, England ‘ on March 20, 1798. The first recorded use of the word cocktail as a beverage {possibly non-alcoholic} in the US appears in ‘The Farmer’s Cabinet’ on April 28, 1803.

The first definition of cocktail known to be an alcoholic beverage appeared on May 13, 1806. In New Orleans, the Sazarac {a local New Orleans variation of a Cognac or whiskey cocktail} was prepared using an eggcup measure as a jigger. The French for eggcup is “coquetier” {pron. cock-a-tshay} and it is likely that the English word cocktail is simply a gastronomic loan-word from the French).

1878 – Edison makes electricity available for household use.

1922 – British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation.

1952 – Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash.

1954 – Texas Instruments Inc announces the first transistor radio. (Their development was made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947).

2007 – After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near

Bhutto’s convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.

2013 – Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria.

2017 US congresswoman Frederica Wilson says President Donald Trump said to bereaved army family of Sgt. La David Johnson “He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway”

2021 – Flash foods and heavy rain in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand and Nepal kill over 100 people after 328 mm falls in 24 hours.

Born….

1950 – Om Puri, Bollywood character actor (pic credit – Cinestan).

1977 – Kunal Kapoor, Bollywood actor, son of veteran Shashi Kapoor .

1984 – Freida Pinto, Bollywood actor.

RIP….

1983 – Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer. played 55 Tests, 3,208 runs – (pic credit -X.com).

1995 – Baby Naaz (Anuradha Bhakkar), famous child actor.

2004 – Veerappan, bandit and Chandan smuggler.

You may have known….

Unlike humans, cats can stay hydrated by drinking seawater.

 

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}