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This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History! 

On this day, Oct. 06…

1927- “The Second Hundred Years” silent short film released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy – 1st Laurel and Hardy film with them appearing as a team.

1932 – The Indian Air Force was officially established 8 October 1932 as an auxiliary air force of the British Empire and the prefix Royal was added in 1945 in recognition of its services during World War II. After India became independent, the Royal Indian Air Force served the Dominion of India, with the prefix being dropped when India became a republic in 1950. The President serves as the ex-officio Commander-in-Chief of the IAF. The Chief of Air Staff, an Air Chief Marshal (ACM), carries a four-star rank and commands the Air Force. The rank of Marshal of the Air Force has been conferred only once, to Late Arjan Singh, on 26 Jan 2002).

1939 – Germany annexes Western Poland.

1958 – Dr Senning Ake Senning instals first pacemaker, Stockholm. (Earlier the same year, Rune Elmqvist invented the pacemaker, designed to be implanted in a subcutaneous pouch in a patient suffering a cardiac disease).

2006 – North Korea announced that it had made its first nuclear test, making it the eighth country to explode a nuclear device.

2019 – FBI confirm Samuel Little is America’s most prolific serial killer, after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders.

Born….

1888 – Eenst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist who attempted to corelate body build and physical constitution with personality characteristics and mental illness. (His conclusion was: greater number of violent criminals correspond to ‘well developed muscles’; the ‘tall and thin’ are more likely to be involved in petty theft and fraud; the ‘short and fat’ tended toward crimes involving deception and fraud and also sometimes in violent crimes. His findings were based on study of 4,000 criminal cases).

1906 – Hary Gilbert Day, an American nutritional biochemist who helped develop the fluoride additive used in toothpaste to combat tooth decay. (Procter and Gamble that funded his research, introduced Crest toothpaste in 1956 with this ingredient and called it Fluoristan).

1926 – Raaj Kumar, actor.

1935 – Milkha Singh, athlete.

1970 – Gauri Khan, film producer.

1980 – Mona Singh, presenter.

RIP….

1936 – Mushi Premchand, writer.

1978 – Jayaprakash Narayan. (Popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak he was an independence activist, social reformer and political leader, remembered especially for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whose overthrow he called a “total revolution”. In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna. Many public institutions are named after him).

1990 – Veteran freedom fighter and Congress leader Kamalapati Tripathi.

You may have known….

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Good morning. Have a nice day.

{Compiled by Lt. Gen, (R) Raj Kadyan}