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The Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932 in British India as an auxiliary air force of the Royal Air Force. The Indian Air Force (IAF) today celebrated its 87th birthday with a spectacular air display that will include vintage and modern transport aircraft and frontline fighters.
The Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932 in British India as an auxiliary air force of the Royal Air Force. The Indian Air Force (IAF) today celebrated its 87th birthday with a spectacular air display that will include vintage and modern transport aircraft and frontline fighters.
The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its complement of personnel and aircraft assets ranks fourth amongst the air forces of the world. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflict. HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIAN AIR FORCE.
The first Nobel Prizes—awards established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) in his will—were handed out in Sweden in 1901 in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The Nobel Prize in economics was first awarded in 1969. Carter was the third U.S. president to receive the award, worth $1 million, following Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919).
On October 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
By accounts of 18th-century sailors, in 1737, a massive earthquake in Calcutta not only leveled the city on October 11, it ended the lives of some 300,000 people. There was only one major problem with this historical account. Calcutta’s population was fewer than 20,000 people in 1737. Also, there wasn’t an earthquake, not even a small one. The accounts of the earthquake in Calcutta, which is modern-day Kolkata, the capital of India’s West Bengal, remained in history book until the 1990s.
1492 Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.
1943
The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy.
1964
1964 USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with the multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew did not wear spacesuits.
1984
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonates a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; 5 others are killed and 31 wounded.
1994
NASA loses contact with the Magellan probe spacecraft in the thick atmosphere of Venus.
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