Engrave your name on hearts, not on tombstones.
On this day, 06 Nov....
1899 - James Packard and his brother, William Doud Packard, had finished building a car of their own design, and gave it a road test on the streets of Warren, Ohio. The car was rejected during testing. Thereafter it took fourteen months for the Packard brothers, with two men hired from Winton, to produce what became known as the Packard Model A. It had high wire wheels, was steered by a tiller rather than a wheel, and was powered by a single-cylinder engine under the seat. Packard had invented the automatic spark advance as an improvement. He sold the car for $1250.
1913 - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa.
1928 - Colonel Jacob Schick patents first electric razor.
1950 - King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.
Born....
1835 - Cesare Lombroso. (Italian physician, psychiatrist and pioneer criminologist, who employed Darwinian ideas of evolution to account for criminal behaviour. Measuring heads of criminals against skulls of apes and prehistoric humans, he concluded that criminals were in fact hereditary victims of atavism - a reversion to evolutionarily primitive traits including those related to survival. In prehistoric times, a strong desire to kill, for example, would have made them good hunters and desirable mates, but criminals in urban environments. Lombroso believed this theory of atavistic criminality should influence punishment of crime. In many circles, his ideas met with concerted opposition. Later, Lombroso gradually included social factors as significant in disposing people to criminal behaviour).
1865 - Sir William Boog Leishman. (British physician who studied tropical diseases in India as an army officer. In 1900, he determined a protozoon to be the disease agent for kala-azar, a disease now sometimes known after his name as leishmaniasis).
1892 - Sir John William Alcock.( British aviator who as pilot, with his fellow British aviator Arthur Brown as navigator, completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight on 15 Jun 1919. Considered an ace pilot, in the WW I, he flew numerous missions over Turkish enemy lines, winning a DSC for a solo attack on three Turkish planes).
RIP....
1985 - Sanjeev Kumar, film actor.
Titbits....
1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Lt Gen Raj Kadyan
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