Today

A Wednesday with the RBI's Monetary Policy Committee due to announce its rate call, the last day of a three-day meeting that began on October 5.

On this day

  1. Banner of the Holy League 1571
    1571At the Battle of Lepanto, a fleet of the Holy League broke Ottoman naval power in the Mediterranean, inflicting the Ottoman navy's first major defeat.Unknown authorUnknown author via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  2. Erotic male penis bottle opener from the German Democratic Republic; Made at home around the 1970s;
    1949The German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in the Soviet occupation zone, formalising East Germany as a separate state.Lupus in Saxonia via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 'Khas Patra' (important page) authored by Guru Gobind Singh from the 'Bhai Mani Singh Bir' (manuscript)
    1708IndiaGuru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, died at Nanded in present-day Maharashtra from wounds inflicted by an assassin weeks earlier.Guru Gobind Singh via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Did you know

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for his anti-apartheid activism, was born on this day in 1931.

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