Today’s Motto: ‘If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shades’

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

On this day, Oct.08……..

1645 – First hospital in Montreal, Quebec founded, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal by nurse Jeanne Mance.

1856 – The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War begins, with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. (The ‘Arrow’ was a ship that had previously been used by pirates. It was captured by the Chinese government, and subsequently resold).

1918 – American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.

1927 – “The Second Hundred Years” silent short film released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy – 1st Laurel and Hardy film with them appearing as a team.

1932 – The Indian Air Force was officially established as an auxiliary air force of the British Empire and the prefix Royal was added in 1945 in recognition of its services during World War II. After India became independent, the Royal Indian Air Force served the Dominion of India, with the prefix being dropped when India became a republic in 1950. The rank of Marshal of the Air Force has been conferred only once, to Late Arjan Singh, on 26 Jan 2002.

1939 – Poland was annexed by Germany.

1945 – Microwave oven patented by US inventor Percy Spencer.
1958 – Dr. Senning Ake Senning instals first pacemaker, Stockholm.

2006 – North Korea announced that it had made its first nuclear test, making it the eighth country to explode a nuclear device.

2022 – The Kerch bridge built by Russia to link Crimea to Russia and symbol of Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukraine is partly blown up, allowing only light traffic to cross.

Born….

1888 – Eenst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist who attempted to correlate body build and physical constitution with personality characteristics and mental illness. (His conclusion was: greater number of violent criminals correspond to ‘well developed muscles’; the ‘tall and thin’ are more likely to be involved in petty theft and fraud; the ‘short and fat’ tended toward crimes involving deception and fraud and also sometimes in violent crimes. His findings were based on study of 4,000 criminal cases).

1906 – Hary Gilbert Day, an American nutritional biochemist who helped develop the fluoride additive used in toothpaste to combat tooth decay. (Procter and Gamble that funded his research introduced Crest toothpaste in 1956 with this ingredient and called it Fluoristan).

1926 – Raaj Kumar, popular Bollywood  actor.

1935 – Milkha Singh, celebrated athlete who won Bronze medal in Olypmics.

1970 – Gauri Khan, film actor producer.

1980 – Mona Singh, TV actor and presenter.

RIP….

1936 – Munshi Premchand, writer.

1978 – Jayaprakash Narayan. (Popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak , he was an independence activist, social reformer and political leader, remembered especially for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whose overthrow he called a “total revolution”. In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.

You may have known….
Crows in Japan will crack open nuts by leaving them on roads and waiting for cars to drive over them.

 

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