The first session of the UN General Assembly was convened on 10 January 1946 in the Methodist Central Hall in London and included representatives of 51 nations.

The first rice straw power plant has been set up at Jalkheri, Punjab. The Jalkheri Power Plant becomes operational, not only about 80,000 MT per annum of rice straw shall be consumed for producing electricity, but this will also save environment from getting polluted which otherwise is polluted due to burning of rice straw by farmers.

The founder member of EFTA are Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Sweden. During the 1960s, these countries were often referred to as the “Outer Seven”, as opposed to the Inner Six of the then European Economic Community (EEC).

The first historical mention of the holding of the ancient Olympic Games occurred about 2775 years ago.

The first Afro-Asian Games were held between October 24, 2003 and November 1, 2003 in Hyderabad, India.

The first man-made satellite, Sputnik I was launched by the former USSR in 1957. The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.

The General Assembly meets every year in regular sessions which begin on third Tuesday in September every year. Tuesday of the third week in September, counting from the first week that contains at least one working day.

The chief of the Army staff is assisted by Vice-chief of the Army Staff and Principal staff officers such as Deputy Chief, Adjutant General, Military Secretary.

The dance performed by women to invoke rain in Bihar is Jata Jatin. Jat Jatin is the dance of women of the Mithila region of Bihar and is supposed to be performed on moonlit nights during the monsoons. Grown-up girls and young housewives assemble in the courtyard and, accompanied by a drum, dance from midnight to dawn. As they dance, they enact in gestures the epic story of the love of Jata and Jatin. The most dramatic episode of the dance concerns a wicked boatman who breaks through the dancing ring and kidnaps the beautiful Jatin.

The department of Atomic Energy was established in 1956. The Atomic Energy Commission is the governing body of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. The DAE is under the direct charge of the Prime Minister. The Indian Atomic Energy Commission was set up on 10 August 1948 under the late Department of Scientific Research. A resolution passed by the Government of India later replaced the commission by “Atomic Energy Commission of India” on 1 March 1958 under the Department of Atomic Energy with more financial and executive powers.