On this day - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

The greatest tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

On this day, 03 Nov....

1783 - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

1838 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

1892 - The first automatic telephone exchange opened to the public in LaPorte, Indiana, with about seventy-five subscribers.

1896 - J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales.

1906 - “SOS” was specified as the international distress signal. It would replace the earlier Marconi call sign CQD. The code “CQD” was established as a distress signal on 1 Feb 1904, but was never chosen from such a phrase as “Come Quick Danger.” The 1906 Conference proceedings do not detail the discussions about the choice of SOS. The likely reason is that it was speedy to tap out. 

1913 - The USA introduces an income tax.

1952 - Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas in Chester, New York. {Natural food freezing (using winter frosts) had been in use by tribes in cold climates for centuries. From 1929, Clarence Birdseye introduced "flash freezing". Birdseye first became interested in food freezing during fur-trapping expeditions, where he saw the natives use natural freezing to preserve foods}.

1957 - Sputnik 2 was launched, with the first live animal sent into space - a Siberian husky dog, Laika (“barker” in Russian). By design, the craft was not planned for recovery, and Laika died in orbit. Biological data, the first data of its kind, was transmitted back to Earth while she lived. The data showed scientists how Laika was adapting to space - information important to the imminent planned manned missions. The satellite remained in orbit 162 days. Laika was considered a hero in the Soviet Union. The first human to pilot a spacecraft, Yuri Gagarin, followed on 12 Apr 1961, aboard Vostok 1.

1984 - 3,000 die in 3-day anti-Sikh riot in India.

1988 - Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and sought to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.

1999 - Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M).

2000 - BCCI suspends five cricketers -Mohammed Azaruddin, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Manoj Prabhakar--for a period of 15 days after the CBI report.

2007 - Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

2014 - New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks.

Born....

1933 - Amartya Kumar Sen, economist.

RIP....

1992 - Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry.

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Lt Gen Raj Kadyan