Today’s Motto: ‘Some people never do crazy things. What truly horrible lives they must lead’

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

On this day, Mar. 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.

1930 – General Foods put the first individually packaged frozen foods – “Birds Eye Frosted Foods” – on sale in Springfield, Massachussetts, USA. From 1922, he prepared frozen fish for sale, and developed freezing processes.

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 (pic credit-Beach Packaging Design)

1961 – 1st London minicabs introduced.

1971 – Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain (pic credit-ESPNCricinfo).

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

1991 – Chandrasekhar resigns as Indian PM.

1994 – In Biosphere 2, a glass enclosed ecosystem, a group of seven people from five countries began a new study in self-contained living. Their aim was to live within the structure, supported by the several simulated types of ecosystems therein, to provide information which may be applied to solving ecological problems created by man. Biosphere 2 was built in the desert outside of Oracle, Arizona.

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.

2017 – Wikileaks publishes “Vault 7” CIA documents detailing its hacking and surveillance techniques (pic credit-Britannica).

2018 – American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australia’s Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea.

2018 – British health officials tell the country it’s time “to get on a diet” and urging manufacturers to reduce calories in foods.

Born….

1475 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, an Italian artist, poet, sculpture and architect known primarily for his works of art. He also prepared extremely accurate anatomical drawings of the human body . He was not given any award but an International Award for outstandning arts is established in his name. (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1508 – Mughal emperor Humayun, son of Babar. He was twice defeated by Sher Shah Suri at Chausa (1539)and Kannaij  (1540) but later he defated his descendeants in Machhiwada

and Sirhind  in (1555-56) and established Mughal empire.

Died: –1973- Pearl S Buck, noted American writer, poet and novelist. Her best selling novel The Good Earth won her Pultzer Prize in 1932. She lived her most years of life in Zhengziang, China.

2016 – Nancy Reagan, American actress and wife of US President, Ronald Reagon.

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}