October 18, 1861: Delhi's first-ever police complaint was written down - in Urdu and Persian. A resident named Maiuddin reported the theft of household items - women's clothing, a hookah, cooking pots, a bowl - valued at about 45 annas… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 17, 2003: India launched its heaviest remote-sensing satellite - built to watch its own land from space. At 1,360 kg, it was India's heaviest and most advanced remote-sensing satellite at the time… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 16, 2014: India launched the third satellite of a navigation system it was building entirely on its own. The 1,425 kg satellite was the third of seven planned for the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System - what would later be called NavIC… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 15, 1931: a fisherman's son was born in Rameswaram. He would go on to run India's missile program and its presidency. He joined DRDO in 1958 and moved to ISRO in 1969, where he served as Project Director for India's first satellite launch vehicle… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 14, 2010: India finished 2nd on a Commonwealth Games medal table for the first time ever. India finished with 38 gold medals and 101 medals in total, moving ahead of England for the first time in the event's history - achieved on home soil… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 13, 1999: a coalition government was sworn in - and this time, it lasted the full five years. Formed after the 1999 general election, the government brought together more than a dozen regional and national parties under one coalition… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 12, 2014: a cyclone with 185 km/h winds hit India's coast. It killed 116 people - not tens of thousands. With sustained winds near 185 km/h and gusts to 260 km/h, Hudhud was the first cyclone to cross the Visakhapatnam coast in October since 1985… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 11, 1902: a boy was born in a river-island village who would spend his life arguing for power to stay close to the people. He went on to become one of India's most prominent freedom-struggle leaders… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 9, 1949: India created an army of citizens who kept their day jobs. As India's first Indian Governor-General, Rajagopalachari launched the Territorial Army under the Territorial Army Act of 1948… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 7, 1914: she was born in a small town in Uttar Pradesh. The world would later call her the Queen of Ghazals. She became one of Hindustani classical music's greatest voices in ghazal, dadra and thumri… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 6, 1949: Nehru laid the foundation stone for a military academy unlike any other in the world. The academy was designed as the world's first tri-service military academy - training Army, Navy and Air Force cadets together from day one… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 5, 1864: a cyclone killed 60,000 people in Calcutta - and accidentally built India's weather-warning system. The Great Calcutta Cyclone of October 5, 1864, wrecked hundreds of ships, flattened warehouses across the port and killed an estimated 60… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 4, 1977: India's External Affairs Minister became the first person to address the UN General Assembly in Hindi. As India's External Affairs Minister, Vajpayee broke with decades of English-only precedent at the UN podium… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 1, 1966: India decided tourism was worth its own government company. ITDC was formed by merging several public-sector tourism bodies into one organization, unifying tourism planning… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

September 30, 1989: India launched a submarine it had never built before - and built it anyway. It was India's first indigenously built submarine - a Shishumar-class diesel-electric vessel, built under a technology transfer agreement with Germany's HDW… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

September 29, 1997: India launched its own rocket, carrying its own satellite, for the first time. It was the first operational flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle - India's own launch vehicle… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory