On this day - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

We can't rewrite the past. It is best to bury it.

 

On this day, 09 Nov....

 

1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator (1st consul) of France.

 

1888 - Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed. (Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations).

 

1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China.

 

1957 - Gordon Gould began to write down the principles of what he called a laser in his notebook during a sleepless Saturday night. By Wednesday morning he had a notary witness and date his notebook. Therein, he had described what he called “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation,” or, from those initials, “laser.”

 

1961 - The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude.

 

1965 - The biggest electricity grid failure in US history caused a 13-hour blackout in northeast America and parts of Canada. Unable to handle the overload, generator operators shut down to protect their equipment. Almost the entire grid failed, affecting 80,000 square miles, and 25 million people. In the subways of New York, 800,000 people were trapped.

 

1967 - Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded.

 

1985 - Gary Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion aged 22.

 

Born....

 

1801 - Gail Borden. American manufacturer who invented a commercial method of condensing milk by heating it in a vacuum to preserve it and investigated other food concentrates.

 

1877 - Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet. (Was born in Sialkot, now in Pakistan).

 

RIP....

 

1920 - Dmitry Iosifovich Ivanovsky. (Russian microbiologist who, from his study of mosaic disease in tobacco, first reported the characteristics of the organisms that were later called viruses. (Although he is generally credited as the discoverer of viruses, they were also independently discovered and named by the Dutch botanist MW Beijerinck only a few years later.)

 

1942 - Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language.

 

2011 - H. Gobind Khorana. (was an Indian-American biochemist who shared (with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley) the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis).”

 

Titbits....

 

1936 - A baby panda was caught in the bamboo forests on the mountains that separate China and Tibet, by a hunting party for Ruth Harkness, a wealthy American socialite. The baby panda was named Su Lin (Chinese for “A Little Bit Of Something Precious”), and bottle-fed by Harkness during her return to New York. As the first giant panda to live in captivity outside China, Su Lin caused a sensation in the media. Su Lin was acquired on 8 Feb 1837 by Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, and was exhibited there until the panda died on 1 Apr 1938.

 

Good morning. Have a nice day.

Lt Gen Raj Kadyan