Today in history @ 06 Jun.

Famous birthdays

a. ?Famous India writer in Kannada, Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (b. 1891). He was awarded with the Jnanpith Award,?the highest literary honor conferred in?India. He is most renowned for his short stories. He wrote under the pen name?“Srinivasa”. Incidentally, he died on the same day in 1986.

b. Indian actor, film producer, director and politician, Sunil Dutt (b. 1929).

c. German novelist, short story writer, social critic, and essayist, Thomas Mann (b. 1875). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.

d. Swedish?tennis?player, Bjorn Borg (b. 1956). He was the first man to win the?Wimbledon?singles championship five successive times (1976–80) since Laurie Doherty (1902–06). He won the?French Open?men’s singles championship an?unprecedented?four times in a row and six times in all (1974–75, 1978–81).

e. Leader of the Indonesian independence movement and?Indonesia’s?first?President, Sukarno (b. 1901).

f. British?Royal Navy?officer and explorer, Robert Falcon Scott (b. 1868). He led two expeditions to the?Antarctic?regions namely “The Discovery Expedition” of 1901-04 and the “Terra Nova” expedition of 1910-13.

Famous death anniversaries

a. Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, Carl Jung (d. 1961). He founded?analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to?Sigmund Freud’s?psychoanalysis.

b. British philosopher and jurist, Jeremy Bentham?(d. 1832). He is primarily known today for his?moral philosophy, especially his principle of utilitarianism, which evaluates actions based upon their consequences.

c. American businessman James E Casey (d. 1983). He is known for being the founder of the?“American Messenger Company”, today known as?UPS.

d. American engineer, Charles Francis Jenkins (d. 1934). He was a pioneer of early cinema technology and the first person to demonstrate television in the United States.??He used mechanical rather than electronic technologies. In his lifetime, he acquired over 400 patents.

e. American crystallographer Jerome Karle (d. 2013). He was awarded the?Nobel Prize?for Chemistry in 1985 along with Herbert Hauptman for their development of mathematical methods for deducing the molecular structure of chemical?compounds?from the patterns formed when X-rays are diffracted by their crystals.

f. French aviation pioneer, Paul Cornu (d. 1944). He designed and built the first?helicopter?to perform a manned free flight.

g. English physicist Edward Andrade (d. 1971). He is best known for work (with?Ernest Rutherford) that first determined the wavelength of a type of?gamma radiation, proving it was far higher in energies than X-rays known at the time. Also, a rheological model suggested by him and bearing his name is still widely employed in continuum mechanics and its geophysical applications.?

Other notable events

a. In 1844,?Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was formed by?George Williams?in London.

b. In 1882, the electric iron was patented by New York inventor Henry W. Seely. It weighed almost 15 pounds and was very slow to heat up.

c. In 1925,?Walter Chrysler?founded the automobile company Chrysler?Corporation.

d. In 1983,?"Octopussy", 13th James Bond film, starring?Roger Moore, Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan premiered in London.

e. In 1983,?Li Xiannian became President of the People's Republic of China and?Deng Xiaoping?the supreme commander

f. In 1987, French Open Women's Tennis, 17-year-old German?Steffi Graf?beat World #1?Martina Navratilova registering her first Grand Slam victory.

g. In 1994,?West Indian cricket batsman?Brian Lara?hit world 1st-class record 501 not out and 390 runs in 1 day for Warwickshire vs Durham at Edgbaston; the only quintuple-hundred in first-class history.

h. In 2002,?"The Bourne Identity" directed by Doug Liman and starring?Matt Damon?premiered in Los Angeles, California.

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