Today’s Motto: ‘If the only aim of a captain is to preserve his ship, then ………

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

On this day, 05 Oct….

1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.

1864 – Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die).

1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight o

f 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908 (pic credit-Biography.com).

1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in a kill. (World War I was the first time that aircraft were used on a large scale. Aeroplanes were just coming into military use at the outset of the war. Initially, they were used mostly for reconnaissance. Pilots and engineers learned from experience, leading to the development of many specialised types, including fighters, bombers, and ground-attack aeroplanes. While the impact of aircraft on the course of war was mainly tactical rather than strategic, most important being direct cooperation with ground forces {especially ranging and correcting artillery fire} the first steps in the strategic roles of aircraft in future wars was also foreshadowed).

1916 – A British soldier serving near the French village of Marcoing, reportedly encounters a wounded German soldier and declines to shoot him: sparing the life of 29-year-old Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler.

1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons were revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran Mordechai Vanunu’s story on its front page under the headline: ‘Revealed the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal’.

1993 – CBI chargesheeted 40 in Ayodhya (Babri demolition) case. LK Advani, MM Joshi and Bal Thackeray were among the accused (Photo credit-Sondeep Shankar/Getty Images)

1997 – Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first India-born US  woman to become an astronaut.

1997 – Kiran Bedi, India’s first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.

2020 – At least 14m tonnes of plastic pieces are at the bottom of the ocean, 30 times more than on the surface according to new research.

Born….1864 – Louis Lumiere. A Frenh inventor, who worked with his brother Auguste to make pioneering motion-picture equipment.

1975 – Kate Winslet. British actress known for her roles in  one of the most popular film Titanic and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Reader, The Mare of Easttown, The Holiday, The Sense and Sansibility,  Dressmaker,  Avatar series, Labor Day etc. She won several awards including the Academy,  5 BAFTA, 2 Primetime Emmy,   a Grammy Award, three Critics’ Choice Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild  Awardand a Producers Guild Award.

1973 – Steve Miller. Popular Rock Singer founded Steve Miller Band  in 1966, a skilled Guitarist and lyricist. Won several  music awards  including Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

RIP….1991 – Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group.

2011 – Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone. Died at 56.

Titbits….

1965 – Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups.

You may have known….

Jain Weddings: Jain weddings are highlighted by the three major pre-wedding ceremonies namely Lagana Lekhan, Lagna Patrika, and Sagai. Also, Pheras and Kanya Daan are two of the most notable and important rituals of a Jain wedding.

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