5 Facts about #BegumAkhtar 1. Real name: #AkhtariBaiFaizabadi 2. Accredited as #MallikaEGhazal 3. Rewards & Recognition: #SangeetNatakAkadmi, #PadmaShri and #PadmaBhushan 4. Gave her first public performance at the age of 15 5. Born: 7 October 1914 #OnThisDay

5 Lesser-Known Facts about #VinodKhanna 1. Served as India's Culture and Tourism Minister in 2002 2. Elected for #LokSabha from #Gurdaspur 4 times 3. Became a disciple of #Osho (1982) 4. Worked in a Pakistani Movie #Godfather (2007) 5. Born: 6 October 1946 #OnThisDay in Peshawar

5 Lesser-Known Facts about #MulayamSinghYadav 1. Parents: Murti Devi and Sughar Singh 2. Before stepping into politics, Netaji's earned only Rs 120 per month. 3. Teacher of English 4. Spent 19 months in jail during #IndiraGandhi's #emergency 5. First Party: Krantikari Party

5 Facts about #JayaPrakashNarayan #जयप्रकाश_नारायण 1. Popularly known as #JP or #Loknayak 2. Studied at #PatnaVidyapeeth (founded by #RajendraPrasad), and Universities of Berkley and #Iowa 3. Joined Congress (1929) 4. #BharatRatna (1999) 5. Born - 11 October 1902 #OnThisDay

5 Facts about #BahādurShah1st 1. Other Name - #Muhammad Mu'azzam and #ShahAlam1, & "Abul-nasr Sayyid Qutb-ud-din Muhammad Shah Alam Bahadur Shah Badshah" 2. 8th #MughalEmperor of India 3. 3rd Son of #Aurangzeb 4. Had 8 children from 4 wives 5. Born - 14 October 1643 #OnThisDay

5 Facts about #SubrahmanyanChandrasekhar 1. Indian-American #Astrophysicist 2. Received #NobelPrize for #Physics on theories of #evolution of the #stars (1983) 3. Nephew of Dr. #CVRaman 4. A vegetarian by choice and since birth 5. Born on 19 October 1910 #OnThisDay

5 Facts about #AlBiruni 1. Full name - Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī 2. An expert of physics, mathematics, and language 3. Wrote - Kitab-al-Hind 4. Born - 973 AD 5. Died - 1050 AD

5 Facts about #JamiaMilliaIslamiia University 1. Because a #CentralUniversity in #India in 1988 2. Jamia, an Urdu word, that means "University". 3. Millia, also an #Urdu word, that means "National". 4. 1st Chancellor - Hakim Ajmal Khan 5. Founded on 29 October 1920 #OnThisDay

5 Lesser-Known Facts about #VVSLaxman VVS Laxman 1. Full name: Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman 2. Never played in #CricketWorldCup 3. Received #PadmaShri in 2011 4. Parents: Dr Shantaram & Dr Satyabhama (Both were Renowned Physicians) 5. Born: 1 November 1974 #OnThisDay #OTD

5 Lesser-Known Facts about #IndiraGandhi 1. Formed #VanarSena a kids' group to distribute Indian flag 2. Studied at #VisvaBharatiUniversity & #SomervilleCollege #Oxford 3. Became Congress President (1959) 4. Became #RajyaSabha MP (1964) 5. Cremated on 3 November 1984 #OnThisDay

5 Facts about #Hemu 1. Also known as #HemChandraVikramaditya 2. Wazir of #AdilShahSuri of #SurEmpire 3. Won over 22 battles against #Afghans & #Mughals (Humayun & Akbar) 4. Defeated #Akbar to become the #emperor on 7 October 1556 5. Beheaded by Akbar on 5 November 1556 #OnThisDay

5 Facts about #GuruHarKishan 1. 8th #SikhGuru 2. Son of #GuruHarRai and Mata Kishan Kaur 3. Born as - Kishan Das Sodhi. Also known as #BalGuru and the youngest Guru 4.Became Guru at the age of 5 5. Died at the age of 7 due to #smallpox

5 Facts about Urdu Poet #TabishDehlvi 1. Real name: Syed Masood-ul-Hasan Tabish Dehlvi 2. Worked for #AllIndiaRadio & #RadioPakistan (after partition) 3. Received Tamgha-i-Imtiaz in #Pakistan 4. Famous works - Nazr-e-Tabish, Nimroz 5. Born - 9 November 2022 #OnThisDay #OTD

5 Facts about #AbulKalamAzad 1. Full Name - Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad 2. India's 1st #MinisterOfEducation 3. Became the Youngest #Congress #President at 35 (1923) 4. Received #BharatRatna (1992) 5. Born - 11 November 1888 #OnThisDay

The story of #HomiJBhabha #HomiJahangeerBhabha #HomiBhabha - bhaskar.com/db-original/ex… ~ via Dainik Bhaskar

5 Facts about KESARI NEWSPAPER 1. #Marathi language newspaper 2. Started by #Lokmanya #BalGangadharTilak 3. To strengthen the #IndianFreedomMovement 4. The first Editor of the newspaper was - Gopal Ganesh Agarkar 5. Found on 4 January 1881 #OnThisDay #OTD