Interesting Facts

7th April 1795 – France adopted the metre as the basic measure of length. 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sold the first friction match. 1947 – Henry Ford, the American automobile manufacturer and industrialist died. 1948 – The World Health Organization was established by the United Nations. 1994 – The massacre of Tutsis began in Kigali, Rwanda.

Walt Disney, Henry Ford and Henry Heinz were all bankrupts before becoming rich. (Walt Disney got cheated when he started a small film company. Henry Heinz got his fingers burnt with horseradish, before he tried ketchup. Henry Ford's first car factory only made 20 cars in two years and unsurprisingly the enterprise went bankrupt in 1901. There's hope for me yet.)