On this day, 06 Jan - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

Our life comprises three events: To be born, to live and to die. We are not conscious of our birth, we suffer at death. Let us enjoy the third.

On this day, 06 Jan....

1664 - Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat.

1681 - 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher). The butcher won.

1714 - An idea for a possible typewriter predecessor was patented by Englishman Henry Mill, but he never succeeded in perfecting his invention and it died with him.

1838 - Samuel Morse, with his partner, Alfred Vail, gave the first public demonstration of their new invention, electric telegraphic system.

1842 - Kabul Retreat  took place during the First Anglo-Afghan War. (Following an uprising in Kabul, Major General Sir William Elphinstone negotiated an agreement with Wazir Akbar Khan, one of the sons of the Afghan Emir Dost Mohammad Barakzai, by which his army was to withdraw to the British garrison at Jalalabad, more than 90 miles away. As the army and its numerous dependents and camp-followers began its march, it came under attack from Afghan tribesmen. Many of the column died of exposure, frostbite or starvation or were killed during the fighting. The Afghans launched numerous attacks against the column as it made slow progress through the winter snows of the Hindu Kush. In total the British army lost 4,500 troops, along with about 12,000 civilians: the latter comprising both the families of Indian and British soldiers, plus workmen, servants and other Indian camp-followers).

1851 -  The rotation of the Earth was proved experimentally by Leon Foucault. After weeks of work, he recorded in his journal that he made this discovery at 2:00 am working with a pendulum in the cellar of the house he shared with his mother. Using a steel wire 2-m long with a 5-kg brass bob, he had made a pendulum suspended in a way that freely permitted it, he found that its plane of oscillation slowly rotated relative to the ground. This led to using much longer versions of his pendulum. He demonstrated his discovery on 31 Mar 1851 for Napoleon.

1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.

1929 - Sheffield Farms of New York began using Sealcone wax paper cartons instead of glass bottles for milk delivery. These quart, pint and half pint truncated cone containers used a flexible spruce fibre paper rather than a stiff cardboard. The upper end was flattened and hermetically sealed with a metal closure that permitted storage even upside-down. This triangular shape meant saving in packaging weight, and at lower cost. Advertisements said they were transparent enough to see the cream line.

1947 - All India Congress Commitee accepted the division of country.

1971 - The first adult heart transplant in the U.S. was performed at the Stanford Medical Centre, Stanford, California, by Dr. Norman Shumway. The 54-year-old patient, whose heart had been damaged by virus infection, survived for 15 days after the surgery. Shumway, an American surgeon, continued to pioneer in cardiac transplantation. His surgical team went on to perform many other heart-transplant operations. Later, Shumway also accomplished open-heart surgery for the transplantation of valves.

Born....

1932 - Kamleshwar, famous Hindi writer.

1959 - Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj, cricketer (India's finest all-rounder;1978-94, Cup-1982).

1966 - A. R. Rahman, composer.

1985 - RP Singh, cricketer.

RIP....

1987 -
Jaidev, famous music director.

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