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TODAY - Oct 28, 2025

Thought of the Day

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Today's Birthday

Robert Liston
Robert Liston Surgeon, Scottish(1794)

A Scottish surgeon who performed the first operation in Britain on an anaesthetized, patient.

 
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk Microbiologist, American(1914)

An American microbiologist who developed the first effective vaccine against the crippling disease of Polio.

 
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner Athlete, American(1949)

An American athlete who won the men's decathlon Summer Olympics at the 1976.

 
Bill Gates
Bill Gates Inventor , American(1955)

An American businessman, investor and inventor who founded Microsoft in 1975 and became the third richest man from 1995- 2007.

 
Auguste Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier Chef, French(1846)

A French chef, and master of the haute cuisine style of French cookery originated by Marie Antoine Careme.

This day in History

1636

The College that would later be known as Harvard University is founded by an act of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1886

The Statue of Liberty is formally dedicated by President Grover Cleveland.

1919

Congress passes the Volstead Act, or National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto of the previous day.

1962

The Cuban missile crisis ends as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev

2004

Scientists announce discovery of a skeleton of a new species of hominid found on the Indonesian island of Flores. A striking feature is the species' small size: only 3.3 feet tall.

Man who made the difference

Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935)

Auguste Escoffier

A French chef, and master of the haute cuisine style of French cookery originated by Marie Antoine Careme (1784-1833) was born on October 28, 1846, in the village of Villeneuve-Loubet. He started his career as a kitchen boy at the age of 12 in Nice. Before beginning his celebrated work in England he spent six years in Paris, served as a cook in the Franco-Prussian War, and master chef at the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo. From 1890 to 1898 he presided over the kitchens of the Savoy Hotel in London, and in 1898 he began his 13-year tenure at the Carlton House there. At the Carlton House and for brief periods at other great hotels of Europe and New York City, Escoffier perfected the elaborate sauces, many courses, and elegant decorations of Careme's haute cuisine to their modern standards. He trained hundreds of chefs in the grand tradition. Although he retired at the age of 65, he spent some of his time writing. He is credited with the invention of 10,000 recipes.

Escoffier died on February 12, 1935, at Monte Carlo.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal