Today’s Motto: ‘Essence of Life is turning your Wounds into Wisdom’

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

On this day, Oct.14…….

1066 – Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy and Norman army defeat English forces of Harold II. William was crowned as king on Christmas Day 1066. (William the Conqueror was a Norman duke. This victory would ultimately lead to his taking the English crown).

1882 – University of Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan. (Informally Punjab University. It is a public research university located in the downtown area of Lahore and also in Chandigarh. 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.

1899 – Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa.

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.

1947 – Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes first supersonic flight, flying at Mach 1.015.

1956 – Dr. Bhimrao Ramji, Ambedkar and about two lakh scheduled caste men and women embraced Buddhism in Nagpur and Shrawasti  (pic credit – Wikipedia).

1964 – 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 1970).

1968 – First live telecast from a manned US spacecraft, Apollo 7.

1989 – Indian Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.

1997 – Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex.

2020 – A copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New York.

Born….

1884 – Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter who passed Civil Service exams but refused to join under British.

1940 – Cliff Richards, rock vocalist. (Was born in Lucknow).

1950 -2nd Lt. Arun Khetrapal, who was awarded PVC (Posthumous) for his valor in 1971 Bangladesh War.

1981 – Gautam Gambhir, opening batsman, prolific cricketer and presently BJP Member of Lok Sabha.

You may have known….

The U.S. tops the list as the country with the highest calorie intake of any in the world. The average calorie consumption per day in the U.S. is 3,770 calories.

 

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