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Crossroads
1st October 1906:
Iconic music composer, Sachin Dev Burman, is born
2nd October 1869:
Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, is born
Padma Shri and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardee Geet Sethi wins the world professional billiards championship.3rd October, 1992:
4th October 1977:
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is released from charges of political corruption
5th October 2011:
India launches low-cost tablet Aakash
6th October 1893:
Meghnad Saha, Indian Astrophysicist, institution builder and parliamentarian, who developed the ‘ionization theory’, is born.
7th October 1950:
Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity
8th October 1932:
The Indian Air Force comes into being
9th October 1949:
The Territorial Army is established
10th October 1992:
The Vidyasagar Setu, the second bridge across the Hooghly River, is inaugurated
11th October 1942:
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, is born
12th October 1901:
Theodore Roosevelt renames “Executive Mansion,” “The White House”
13th October 1911:
Sister Nivedita, a writer, social worker and disciple of Swami Vivekananda passes away
14th October 1956:
B.R. Ambedkar converts to Buddhism along with 365,000 followers
15th October 1931:
Indian scientist and former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is born
16th October 1905:
The provincial state of Bengal is partitioned
17th October 1907:
The first commercial wireless telegraph is sent over the Atlantic Ocean.
18th October 2004:
Indian bandit and smuggler Veerappan is killed
19th October 2005:
Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
20th October 1962:
The Sino-Indian War begins
21st October 1943:
Subhas Chandra Bose announces the Provisional Government of Free India
22nd October 2008:
India’s first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, is launched
23rd October 2001 :
releases the iPod.
24th October 2011:
A vaccination program immunizing over 170 million children every year results in the near eradication of polio in India.
25th October 2001:
Release of Microsoft’s Windows XP
26th October 1947 :
Maharaja Hari Singh agrees to the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India
27th October 1982:
China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
28th October 1972:
The first Airbus A300 flies into the sky.
29th October 1999:
A super cyclone strikes Odisha, with at least 10,000 lives lost and an estimated 1.5 million people rendered homeless.
30th October 1909:
Indian nuclear physicist Homi Bhabha known as the ‘Father of the Indian Nuclear Programme’, is born.
31st October 1984:
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated
