October 10, 2014: India got its first Nobel Peace Prize - shared with a 17-year-old from Pakistan. Satyarthi, founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, had spent decades fighting child labour and campaigning for every child's right to education. #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

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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 - a volunteer 'second line of defence' made up of… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 8, 1932: India's air force began with 5 pilots and 4 biplanes. It started as an auxiliary of the Royal Air Force, with five Cranwell-trained pilots and four Westland Wapiti biplanes based at Karachi. #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 - genres built on emotional restraint and precise… #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, instead of… #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 60,000… #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, speaking on nuclear… #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 60,000… #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, speaking on nuclear… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 3, 1978: a Kolkata doctor achieved the world's second-ever IVF birth - alone, with homemade equipment. The baby, Kanupriya Agarwal, was the world's second IVF baby ever born, just 67 days after the UK's Louise Brown. #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory

October 2, 1904: India's second Prime Minister was born on the same day as Gandhi. He became India's second Prime Minister in 1964, succeeding Jawaharlal Nehru. #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, infrastructure and policy under a single central government company -… #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, but fa… #Bharat100 #OnThisDay #IndianHistory