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TODAY - Oct 31, 2025

Thought of the Day

I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why, I succeed.

Today's Birthday

Benoit Fourneyron
Benoit Fourneyron Engineer, French(1802)

A French engineer and inventor who further developed the water turbine, taking over where Claude Burdin left over.

 
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan Physicist, British(1828)

An English physicist and chemist credited with Edison for inventing the first incandescent light bulb.

 
Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low Founder, Georgian(1860)

The founder of Girl Scouts of the USA.

 
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel Politician, Indian(1875)

An Indian freedom fighter, politician and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India.

 
John Keats
John Keats Poet, English (1795)

An English great romantic poet who was one of the great classical, European, and British epic poets and fascinated by the difference between art and life

This day in History

1864

Nevada enters the Union as the 36th state.

1956

George John Dufek an American rear admiral is the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.

1971

An IRA bomb explodes at the top of London's post office Tower.

1984

Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, is assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards at the age of 67 in the garden of her home in New Delhi.

1992

The Catholic Church finally accepted that it had a big mistake in condemning Galileo's insistence that the Earth moves around the Sun, not the reverse.

Man who made the difference

John Keats (1795-1821)

John Keats

An English great romantic poet who was one of the great classical, European, and British epic poets and fascinated by the difference between art and life, was born on October 31, 1795, in Moorgate, City of London, United Kingdom. In 1816, 'O Solitude the sonnet published. This was the beginning of his career as a poet. With a strict rhyme scheme a sonnet, a 14-line poem. Leigh Hunt, a poet and the literary magazine editor published “Endymion” his poems in 1816. His other works include An Epic and Hyperion, 'The Fall of Hyperion and A Dream. An Epic was his long narrative poem about a worthy hero. In Hyperion, he narrated a story of how grief and misery teach humanity compassion. This poem shows his skill with poetic imagination. In his song “Ode to a Nightingale,” he describes the beauty of art and nature. His words, “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination” shows that he never lived to write the poetry. He was a strong believer of humans die but the art they make lives long. The poet whose poetry describes the beauty of the natural and who gave voice to the spirit of Romanticism in literature died on February 23, 1821, in Rome, Italy.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal