This was the birthday 142 years ago today, of the psychoanalyst Alfred Adler. His mother was Irene, with whom Sherlock Holmes had a 'thing' and of course his dad was Larry, the harmonica player. Alfred himself came up with the idea of the inferiority complex, but he didn't want to make a fuss about it.
In other news ...
On this day in 1886 a carpenter called George Walker found gold in the Transvaal in South Africa whilst building a cottage. The Boers (Dutch farmers who had settled there years earlier) were concerned that thousands of trouble-making foreigners would swarm into the area which I would imagine was exactly the same thing that the Zulus had feared when the Boers had arrived.
