On this day - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

When we are measuring life, we are not living it.

On this day  07 Nov....

1876 - A patent for the first US cigarette manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City. The Hook machine produced a continuous cigarette of indefinite length, to be cut into individual cigarettes. Tobacco was fed onto a ribbon of paper. The paper passed over a gummed wheel as it was drawn off its spool. 

1918 - Robert Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform,.Goddard began work for the Army in 1917 to design rockets to aid in the war effort. By Sep 1918, Goddard had presented several options. The simplest version could be fired from trenches; the largest could carry an 8-lb payload a distance of about one mile. Many of these rockets were successfully demonstrated on 7 Nov 1918. Goddard presented solid-fueled 5, 7.5 and 50-pound rockets capable of being launched from a 5.5-foot long by 2-inch or 3-inch wide tube. Further development led to the World War II bazooka, a small, hand-held rocket launcher.

1933 - Gaandhiji commences Harijan-upliftment tour.

1940 -  The first Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge collapsed due to wind-induced vibrations. Situated on the Tacoma Narrows in Puget Sound, near the city of Tacoma, Washington, the bridge had only been open for traffic a few months.

1946 -   The first US coin-operated television to be publicly exhibited was displayed in New York City. It operated when a 25-cent coin was inserted. The receiver, named the Tradio-Vision, contained 20 tubes and a 5-in cathode ray tube that reflected a 500-line image on mirror on the lid of its metal cabinet (16-in high, 8-in deep, 9-in wide).

1975 - The Supreme Court validates election of Indira Gandhi.

1990 - National Front Government headed by V. P. Singh loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha (151-356). Singh tenders his resignation and this is the end of 11-month-old National Front Government.

1995 - Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50.

1997 -   In 1997, Chinese engineers completed the blocking of the Yangtze River, the first step toward what would be the world's largest hydroelectric dam project. (Brhamputra River is called Yangtse in Tibet).

2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.

Born....

1888 -  Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. (Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering: a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material).

RIP....

1862 - Bahadurshah Jafar -II. Died at Rangoon in British prison.

1886 - Charles Thurber. (American inventor of an early form of typewriter. It was mounted on a rotating cylindrical drum. As Scientific American described it, “the paper was secured to the drum, and was brought into the proper place under the type bar guide. The type wheel was revolved until the desired lever came over the guide. The key was then forced down with the finger, and the character was printed”).

1918 - The  influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

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