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This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History! 

On this day, March 06……

1775 – Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.

1831 – Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy. (Poe was the famous author of many horror stories. Rumour is that he reported for drill wearing belts for his cartridges, a smile and nothing else. According to some sources this is not true. But the legend of him appearing naked on parade lives on).

1896 – The first appearance of an auto on the streets in Detroit occurred when Charles Brady King drove his “Horseless Carriage” down one of its main streets. When his auto broke down, speculators responded by telling him to “get a horse”.

1899 – Acetylsalycilic acid was patented by Felix Hoffmann. It is better known by its trade name as Aspirin.

1950 – Silly Putty was introduced as a toy by Peter Hodgson, a marketing consultant, who packaged one-ounce portions of the rubber-like material in plastic eggs. It could be stretched, rolled into a bouncing ball, or used to transfer coloured ink from newsprint.

1961 – 1st London minicabs introduced.

1971 – Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain. (125 Tests, 10,122 runs @ 51.12; 34 Test centuries)

1982 – Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB).

1991 – Chandrasekhar resigns as Indian PM.

1997 – Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) inaugurated in Mauritius.

2000 – India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest.

2018 – World’s oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886).

Born….

1475 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, an Italian artist and architect known primarily for his works of art, but he also prepared extremely accurate anatomical drawings of the human body.

1508 – Emperor Humayun, son of Babar.

Titbits….

1808 – 1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard.

1964 – Liz Taylor’s 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher).

You may have known….

Research found that owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third.

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}