On this day, 06 Apr...
648 BC - The earliest total solar eclipse chronicled by Greeks was observed.
1859 - Realising that milk from the poor, thin cows kept in unsanitary conditions and fed on distillery refuse, was a serious public health hazard, milk inspectors were appointed in the US. They were authorized to enter the premises of milk handlers and take specimens for analysis. A ten dollar fine was prescribed for the sale of 'swill milk'. Also, milk vendors had to register at his office.
1869 - Isaac Hodgson received a U.S. patent for his “roller-skate,” with a padded shoe attached to the skate frame.
1889 - The Kodak Camera was placed on sale by George Eastman.
1912 - The electric starter first appeared in cars.
1919 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike against the Rowlett Act.
1925 - 1st film shown on a British Air flight.
1938 - Du Pont researcher Roy J. Plunkett and his technician Jack Rebok accidentally discovered the chemical compound polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), later marketed as Teflon. It was patented later, on 4 Feb 1941. (Teflon is also a nickname given to persons, particularly in politics, to whom criticism does not seem to stick).
1966 - Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India. (He was the first Indian to conquer the English Channel in 1958 and the only man to earn the distinction of swimming the Oceans of the five continents in one calendar year, 1966).
1980 - Post It Notes, introduced.
1993 - In Russia, a huge radioactive cloud was released from an explosion of a tank of radioactive waste at the secret military facility at Tomsk 7. Located in the Russian wilderness, 1700 miles east of Moscow, it was the worst nuclear accident, though not the only one, since the incident at Chernobyl on 26 Apr 1986. A week later, delegates at a meeting in Tokyo from the world's richest nations, agreed to give urgent help to Russia for problems with nuclear waste, obsolete nuclear missile warheads, and aging nuclear reactors.
1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
2000 - The Indian Government permits use of LPG as auto fuel.
Born
1931 - Suchitra Sen (born Rama Dasgupta), actor.
1956 - Dilip Vengsarkar, cricketer and prolific batsman.
RIP
1664 - Harkhishan Singh, Sikh Guru.
1993 - Divya Bharati, famous Hindi film actress. (Bharti died at the age of 19 after falling off the balcony of her five-story apartment in Versova. Her cause of falling was never officially confirmed).
2011 – Sujatha, actor.
Titbits
1722 - Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards. (A beard tax is one of several taxes introduced throughout history on men who wear beards. Russia did so in line with the Western European models. The tax levied depended upon the status of the bearded man. Those who paid the tax were required to carry a "beard token". To enforce the ban on beards, the tsar empowered police to forcibly and publicly shave those who refused to pay the tax. Resistance to going cleanly shaven was widespread with many believing that it was a religious requirement for a man to wear a beard
1868 - Brigham Young marries his 27th wife. By the time of his death, the most famous polygamist had married 55 wives, had 59 children by 16 of his wives; 46 of his children reached adulthood. However, it is suspected that not all of the 55 marriages were conjugal. (Ann Eliza Young was one of his fifty-five wives and later a critic of polygamy. She spoke out against the suppression of women and was an advocate for women's rights during the 19th century).
You may have known...
After 1947-1948, India and Pakistan fought a second war in 1965 when Pakistan invaded. In 1971, conflict over the status of Bangladesh generated more violence over Kashmir. Since then the countries haven't warred openly over the region, but fighting has proceeded just the same.
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