Today’s Motto: ‘Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public Glories……….

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

On this day, Oct.01………

1854 – The watch company founded in 1850, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.

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 is termed deltiology).

1886 – Baluchisthan became a part of India.

1888 – National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time (pic credits to the magazine).
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 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 proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day).

1949 – Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa.

1953 – State of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras.

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.

2019 – Law allowing teachers to carry guns in schools comes into effect in US state of Florida.

Born….

1847 – Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist.

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, popular Tamil 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….

The Chinchorro of South America were mummifying bodies 2,000 years before the Ancient Egyptians.

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