Today’s Motto: ‘Opportunities don’t Happen, they are Created’

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

On this day, Oct.02………

1845 – First Shipping Company of India started.

1866 – J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener.

1895 – First cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper.

(Rare studio photograph of Mahatma Gandhi taken after Gandhi- Irwin meeting  in 1931)

1912 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, at invitation of Gandhi, arrives in South Africa on a 26-day tour; he also visits Tolstoy Farm.

1934 – Indian Naval Force was established. {The earliest known reference to an organisation devoted to ships in ancient India is to the Mauryan Empire from the fourth century BCE. Emperor Chandragupta Maurya’s Prime Minister Kautilya’s Arthashastra devotes a full chapter on the state department of waterways under navadhyaksha (Sanskrit for Superintendent of ships).

1951 – Dr. Shyamprasad Mukharjee established Bhartiya Jan Sangh Party.

1954 – Chandernagar, formerly under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal.

1957 – All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party ‘Republican Party of India’ was formed.

1971 – Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race.

1986 -Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made at Raj Ghat.

2001 – NATO backs US strikes following 9/11.

2018 – Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again prompting a diplomatic crisis (pic credit – The New Yorker).

Born….

1869 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi). He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi and his fourth wife Putlibai.

1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India (1964-66). Was born in Mughalsarai  (now renamed Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhya Nagar) in Chandauli distt near Benaras (U.P).

1942 – Asha Parekh, veteran and popular Bollywood actor. Was awarded Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2020

(pic credit -OrissaPost)

RIP….

1906 – Raja Ravi Verma. He is remembered for his artistic work in ‘Ram Panchayatan’, ‘Vishwamitra-Menaka’, ‘Shakuntala writing a letter’, ‘Shiv Parvati’. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour.

1975 – Kumaraswami Kamaraj, popular Tamil Nadu Congress leader.

Titbits….

1957 – “The Bridge on the River Kwai”, directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Alec Guinness, is released . (It is a World War II epic film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. The movie was filmed in Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. The film was widely praised, winning seven Academy Awards).

You may have known….

To combat icy roads some cities have tried pickle juice instead of salt.

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