In preparing corn for home. use, it is reported (8) that 35 percent of the. total ear weight in the husk is removed as husk. and trimmings. Research last year showed that. shelf life of sweet corn could be extended by. trimming the shank (9).
Vladimir Lenin dies. Vladimir Lenin, the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54. In the early 1890s, Lenin abandoned his law career to devote himself to Marxist study and the provocation of revolutionary activity among Russian workers.
Karl Marx died March 14, 1883 (aged 64) in London, United Kingdom. He is buried in Highgate cemetery. During the last decade of his life, Marx's health declined and he became incapable of the sustained effort that had characterized his previous work. Following the death of his wife Jenny in December 1881, Marx developed a catarrh that kept him in ill health for the last 15 months of his life.