Motto for Today: Success is not the true teacher; failure is.’

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

On this day, Oct, 1…….

1854 – The watch company founded in 1850, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing. (After observing the natural rhythm of daylight and dark, civilizations around the world looked for ways to measure time, first with calendars then with instruments of increasing precision. First sundial: -1450 before JC in Egypt. Watches evolved in the 17th century from spring-powered clocks, which appeared as early as the 14th century. The first watches were strictly mechanical, driven by clockwork. As technology progressed, mechanical devices, used to control the speed of the watch, were largely superseded by vibrating quartz crystals that produce accurately timed electronic pulses. Some watches use radio clock technology to regularly correct the time. The first digital electronic watch was developed in 1970).

1854 – Postal stamp introduced in India. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom.

1869 – First postcards are issued. (The world’s oldest postcard was sent in 1840 to the writer Theodore Hook from Fulham in London, England. The study and collecting of postcards istermed deltiology).

1886 – Baluchistan became a part of India.

1932 – Indian Military Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 Gentlemen Cadets had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.

1934 – Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles.

1949 – People’s Republic of China was established.

1950 – South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea.
1953 – State of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras.

1988 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, effectively head of state of the Soviet Union.

1998 – Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

2006- Indra Nooyi becomes the new CEO of PepsiCo.

2019 – Indian government bans the export of onions, an important food staple to control prices, causing shortages in Bangladesh and Nepal.

Born….

1847 – Annie Besant, famous philosopher and theosophist.

1919 – Majrooh Sultanpuri, poet. (Full name: Asrar ul Hassan Khan. He gave us some of the best melodies, chirpy songs and romantic numbers of Hindi cinema).

1928 – Shivaji Ganesan, actor.

RIP….

1995 – Aditya Birla, famous industrialist.

1997 – Gul Mohammed (36), world’s shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992.

You may have known….
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by ‘Bayer’.

Good morning. Have a nice day !

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