Motto for Today: ‘Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what gets you going.’

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

On this day, Nov.10……..

1698 – East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.

1885 – The world’s first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, made its first significant test-run. Daimler’s 17-year-old son, Paul, travelled from Cannstatt to Unterturkheim and back. Their “Reitwagen” had a wooden frame and wheels. A leather drive belt ran between the engine and large brass gears on the rear wheel. With no suspension on the wheels, the leather saddle gave a very uncomfortable ride, at a speed up to 12 km/hr. (This was built as an experimental vehicle to test the new Daimler engine in a proof of concept, which was to power Daimler’s first motorized carriage the following year).

1891 – Granville T. Woods patents electric railway.

1899 – Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, Louisiana, anesthetized a patient by “spinal subarachnoid method” for surgery. Matas is known as “the Father of Modern Vascular Surgery.” Delicate surgery was his forte. In 1888 Matas reported the first known aneurysmorrhaphy worldwide. Also in 1888, Dr. Leonard Corning performed the first spinal block with cocaine, but it was over a decade later when Matas performed the first successful preplanned attempt at intraspinal cocainization.

1901 – Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.

1983 – U.S. student Fred Cohen presented to a security seminar the results of his test – the first documented virus, created as an experiment in computer security. Cohen created this first virus when studying for a PhD at the University of Southern California. Others had written about the potential for creating pernicious programs but he was the first to demonstrate a working example.

1990 – Chandra Shekhar Singh sworn in as 8th Prime Minister of India. (He remained in this office till June 21, 1991). Devilal was sworn in as the Dy. Prime Minister.

2020 – Word of the year is “Lockdown” according to Collins English Dictionary.
Born….

1848 – Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru. He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.

1964 – Ashutosh Rana, actor.

1974 – Simone Singh, actor.

RIP….

2009 – Simple Kapadia, actor.

Titbits….

1940 – Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.

You may have known….

A starving mouse will eat its own tail.

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