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

On this day, Oct. 06………….

1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock. (Self-winding clocks supplied robust time you could depend on for synchronization. Many of the self-winding clocks were not used after 1960s and they’re now becoming collector items).

1866 – First known train robbery in US – Reno Brothers take $13,000. (The four Reno brothers boarded an eastbound train in Indiana wearing masks and toting guns. After emptying one safe and tossing the other out of the window, the robbers jumped off the train and made an easy getaway. Their reign came to an end in 1868 when they all were finally captured after committing a series of train robberies. Prior to this innovation in crime in 1866, holdups had taken place only on trains halted at stations or freight yards).

1889 – In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time. (It is a cabaret. It is marked by a red windmill on its roof. The term ‘Moulin Rogue’ means ‘Red Mill’. It is best known as the spiritual birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance. Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe. Today, the Moulin Rouge is a tourist attraction).

1927 – “Jazz Singer,” first movie with a sound track, premieres in New York.

1948 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya. (Proconsul africanus lived from about 23 to 14 million years ago. It was a fruit eater and had a brain larger than a monkey, although probably not as large as a modern ape).

1961 – President JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.

1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel.

1985 – PT Usha sets record for 400m (Women) in 51.61 seconds at Canberra.

2012 – Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said Islam should join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

2014 – The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Hiroshi Amano, Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for developing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), which emits low-energy white light that can replace incandescent and mercury-containing fluorescents.

2021 – WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recommends world’s first Malaria vaccine (Mosquirix) for children after a pilot program was effective in Africa

Born….

1779 – The Hon Mountstuart Elphinstone. (He was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He was the Governor of Bombay, where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions. The suburban railway station named after him in Mumbai recently suffered a human tragedy where in a stampede on a foot over bridge, 23 lives were lost).

1946 – Vinod Khanna, actor.

RIP….

1858 – Nanasaheb Peshwa, a revolutionary of first war of independence.

1963 – Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter and grand old man of Punjab.

1974 – Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha. He had resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression of 1962.

Titbits….

1979 – Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1’9″.

You may have known….

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

 

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