Today's Event – 18th September 2021

• 1793 – The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.

• 1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.

• 1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.

• 1837 – Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".

• 1851 – First publication of The New York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.

• 1862 – The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time Thanksgiving Day.

• 1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

• 1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

• 1895 – The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.

• 1898 – The Fashoda Incident, a territorial dispute between Britain and France, triggers a war scare

• 1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.

• 1922 – The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.

• 1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

• 1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.

• 1934 – The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.

• 1947 – The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.

• 1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.

• 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.

• 1954 – Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western Head of State to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin

• 1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

• 1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda, and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

• 1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany, and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.

• 1977 – Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

• 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.

• 1981 – The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.

• 1982 – The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.

• 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.

• 1988 – The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.

• 1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

• 1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.

• 1997 – The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.

• 2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

• 2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.

• 2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.

• 2016 – The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers

National Events- 

•  FIR has been lodged against unknown individuals for removing the flag from the J&K building

•  Captain Amarinder Singh resigns from the post of CM of Punjab 

•  As per the Indian government, 78 crores vaccines has been supplied to the states

•  Congress leader Shashi Tharoor vouches for a new leadership format for the party

• 34k cases of covid-19 recorded in the last 24 hours in India

International Events- 

•  US President Biden to convene a summit on September 22, 2021, on combatting covid-19 

•  Afghan survivors of US drone strikes said that apologies are not enough to bring family members

•  3 people were killed in a bomb explosion Nangarhar province of Afghanistan

•  British food industry demands action over shortage of CO2

• Attack on a gas pipeline in Syria caused an outage

Job alerts-

• HPSC ADO Jobs for SDAO and other posts. Last date 6th October 2021

• TISS Jobs for Non-Teaching and other posts. Last date 3rd October 2021

• LBSNAA Jobs for the driver, DEO, storekeeper, and other posts. Last date 30th September 2021

• DMHO Lennore Jobs for staff nurse, worker, and other posts. Last date 23rd September 2021

• UTET Jobs for teachers and other posts. Last date 30th September 2021

Sports-

•  Liverpool defeats Crystal Palace with a 3-0 lead in Premier League 2021

•  Mumbai Indians choose Roosh Kalaria as a replacement for the injured Mohsin Khan

•  Pramod Bhagat along with other 4 Paralympians chosen for Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award

•  IPL 2021 returns as a precursor before the T20 World Cup 2021

• Extended New Zealand cricket squad flies out of Pakistan on a chartered plane

Awards and honours-

•  Chandigarh awarded NQAS and LaQshya for quality assurance

•  Four skill trainers received Kaushalacharya Awards 2021

• Actor Aditya Seal awarded Most Promising Actor by Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami 

Technology-

•  Uttar Pradesh has become the cyber-crime capital of India with over 11k cases

•  Karnataka government creating a bill to ban online gambling arenas

•  IIT Guwahati launched the Centre for Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems for advanced engineering and to meet industries’ needs

•  Xiaomi patents earthquake monitoring technology for smartphones

• Space startup Agnikul gets to resources to ISRO

Economy – 

•  Royal Enfield has let go of 90-100 employees based on their performance and appraisal plan

•  TCS planning for employees to return to the office by December 2021

•  Ministry of civil aviation stated that airlines can operate at 85% capacity as per pre-Covid condition

•  Bikram Singh Bedi, CEO of Google Cloud India, has stated that cloud customers are looking for solutions, not infrastructure

• World’s wealthiest families have earned around 312 billion dollars over the past year

Environment –

•  4.3 magnitude earthquake hits Los Angeles

•  Hyderabad to get rain after September 20th, 2021

•  US President Joe Biden urges people to reduce methane usage to tackle climate changes

Local –

•  Prayagraj witnessed the highest numbers of vaccination in a day in Uttar Pradesh

•  Mumbai has reported 485 cases of covid-19 and six deaths

•  Delhi has reported 41 fresh cases of covid-19 without any death

•  Karnataka has recorded 889 cases of covid-19 and 14 deaths

• Kolkata has been ranked as one of the safest cases for senior citizens

GK – 

Which organization has launched the Planetarium Innovation Challenge?

[A] MyGov India
[B] ISRO
[C] NITI Aayog
[D] Birla Planetarium

Recently, which country has applied to join the Asia-Pacific Free Trade grouping?

[A] India
[B] Japan
[C] China
[D] Singapore

Where was Swachhata Pakhwada 2021 launched?

[A] Mormugao Port Trust
[B] Cochin Port Trust
[C] Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust
[D] Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal

Recently, RBI has given its nod to which bank to form a special committee of directors in order to oversee the operations?

[A] Equitas Small Finance Bank
[B] IDFC First Bank
[C] Yes Bank
[D] Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

Which organization is working on technologies in order to develop a reusable GSLV Mk-III launch vehicle?

[A] Space X
[B] ISRO
[C] Virgin Galactic
[D] ROSCOSMOS