October 2007
                                              Vol. I | No.10 Ensuring that you stay ahead

 

 

CRM -The Tool for making Better Decisions
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This Month in History
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Holiday Destination
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Shrikant Kalluri ,
IBS Hyderabad ('98)
Shailendra Chauhan,
IBS Gurgaon ('99)
Vanitha Datla,
IBS Hyderabad, (’97)
Ramesh Padmanabhan,
IBS Bangalore ('97)
Vineeth P Nair,
IBS Chennai ('99)
Did U Know
Book Wormz
Star Speak
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Literati
Just Jokin'

This Month That Year

1st October

  • 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.

3rd October

  • 1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
  • 1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage.

4th October

  • 1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

5th October

  • 1864 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
  • 1962 - The First James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released.

6th October

  • 1977 - The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

8th October

  • 1932 - The Indian Air Force is established.

11th October

  • 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

14th October

  • 1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.

16th October

  • 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.

17th October

  • 1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 1992 - The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992.

18th October

  • 1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.

19th October

  • 2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
  • 2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

20th October

  • 1973 - The Sydney Opera House opens.
  • 2004 - The first Ubuntu Linux distribution is released.

21st October

  • 1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

22nd October

  • 1965 - End of the Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan.
  • 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

24th October

  • 1929 - "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

25th October

  • 2001 - Microsoft Corporation releases their new computer operating system software, Windows XP to the public.

26th October

  • 1947 - The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.

28th October

  • 1981 - The heavy metal band Metallica is founded.

30th October

  • 1922 - Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy
  • 2006 - The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex surpasses the 13,000 points mark for the first time in its history.

31st October

  • 1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).
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