September 2007
                                              Vol. I | No.9 Ensuring that you stay ahead

 

 

Why CRM? The Business case for CRM
Silence is golden. Not always!!!
Biz Quiz
Cool Links
Kartik's Corner
Puzzles
This Month in History
We Heard from u
Holiday Destination
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Saket Jalan ,
IBS Bangalore ('99)
Sudha, IBS Mumbai ('98)
Manish Jain,
IBS Pune, (’98)
Ajay Nahar,
IBS Chennai ('99)
Did U Know
Book Wormz
Star Speak
in Photos
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Just Jokin'

This Month That Year

2nd September

  • 1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
  • 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
  • 2005 - The Natural Bridge, a very popular tourist attraction in Aruba, collapses after thousands of years in good condition.

3rd September

  • 1995 - eBay founded.

4th September

  • 1957 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
  • 1964 - Scotland's Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens.

5th September

  • 1839 - The First Opium War begins in China.
  • 1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

6th September

  • 1997 - Princess Diana is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.
  • 2000 - The Millennium Summit takes place.
  • 2003 - Tropical Depression 9 (Hurricane Isabel) formed in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and the 9th named storm of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season.

7th September

  • 1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
  • 1998 - Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University

8th September

  • 1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
  • 1966 – The first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs.
  • 1986 - The first Oprah Winfrey Show airs.
  • 2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

10th September

  • 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
  • 1987 - At his residence in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden launches al Qaeda.
  • 2006 - Michael Schumacher announced his retirement as a driver.

11th September

  • 1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
  • 1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
  • 1997 - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
  • 2001 - The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and the western wall of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, 2,974 people are killed.

13th September

  • 1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David.
  • 1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.

14th September

  • 1997 - Google first registers the domain google.com.
  • 2000 - Microsoft introduced the last update to the OS, MS-DOS. (Version 8.0)
  • 2000 - Windows Me is released.

16th September

  • 1963 - Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak.

17th September

  • 1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia.
  • 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
  • 2004 - Tamil is declared first classical language in India.

18th September

  • 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
  • 1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens.
  • 1851 - The New-York Daily Times, which will become The New York Times, begins publishing.

19th September

  • 1928 - Walt Disney releases "Steamboat Willie", the best known of the early short films to feature Mickey Mouse.
  • 1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test.

21st September

  • 1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.

22nd September

  • 1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

23rd September

  • 1932 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • 1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.

25th September

  • 1976 - The rock band U2 forms

26th September

  • 1966 - The first Chevrolet Camaro appeared.
  • 2002 - Thirty people are killed in a shooting by terrorists at a temple in Gandhinagar, India.

27th September

  • 1998 - Google is established.

29th September

  • 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26.

30th September

  • 1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.
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