Today’s Motto: ‘Knowledge is being aware of what you can do…….
......... Wisdom is knowing when not to do it'
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, Oct.17………
1814 – At night, a deadly flood of beer was caused from the Horseshoe brewery, London. The metal bands of an immense beer brewing vat snapped releasing a tidal wave of 3,555 barrel of Porter beer, which swept away the brewery walls, flooded nearby basements, collapsed several tenements and resulted in eight deaths.
1907 – The first commercial wireless telegraph is sent over the Atlantic Ocean.
1919 – The Khilafat Movement was launched under the leadership of Maulana Jauhar Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad. (The Khilafat movement {1919–26} was a pan-Islamic, political protest campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British government. The movement became the reason for separation from mainland India of an Islamic Pakistan, in the process unleashing tremendous separation-trauma, mainly upon ethnic Punjabis. The subsequent murder of Gandhi in India was also the indirect fallout of the Khilafat Movement).
1933 – Dr. Albert Einstein and his wife fleeing from Nazi Germany arrive in Princeton, New Jersey, where he would continue his scientific work at the Institute of Advanced Study.
1947 – Britain and Burma signed an agreement today giving Burma full independence outside of the British Commonwealth if it chooses. This ends 300 years of British Rule over the country.
1949 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopted Article 370 of the Constitution making special provisions for J&K.
1959 – Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse (pic credit – BuzzFeed News)
1973 – Members of OPEC announced an oil embargo and that they would discontinue all oil shipments to those countries that supported Israel in its war against Syria and would decrease oil production by 5 per cent a month until Israel gave up all territory it seized in the 1967 war and restores the rights of the Palestinian refugees. As oil prices rose American consumers sought out more fuel-efficient cars mostly from Japanese car makers whose cars gave nearly twice the miles per gallon as the existing American built cars did.
1979 – Mother Teresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 – A world record is set by a British taxi driver Jeremy Levine after completing a round-trip journey to Cape Town South Africa of 26,691 miles. His passengers Mark Aylett and Carlos Aresse paid 40,000 pounds.
1994 – Kapil Dev’s final one-day international (v West Indies).
2018 – Minister of State MJ Akbar is highest official to resign in #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women.
2019 – US adults identifying as Christian falls 12% in a decade to 2/3 according to the Pew Research Center, born-again Protestants falls to 16%.
Born….
1947 – Simi Garewal, Bollywood film actor and TV host.
1947 – Brinda Karat, leftist politician.
1955 – Smita Patil, romantic Bollywood actor.
1970 – Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer, a right-arm leg spinner. (Nicknamed ‘Jumbo’, his 619 wickets in Test cricket made him the third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket; behind Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne).
RIP….
1981 – Kannadasan, Tamil poet, writer and lyricist.
You may have known….
A recent study shows that 12% people dream in black & white.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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