On this day - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

Real life is not like a boxing bout where they take us to a corner and dab mercy on our beat-up face.

On this day 29 Oct 2015

 

1390 -  Jehenne de Brigue becomes the first person put on trial in a secular court for witchcraft in Paris, France. (Jehenne de Brigue is known to be skilled in divination and finding lost objects, but she is taken into custody along with Macette de Ruilly because the two have been exchanging recipes for love potions. Macette de Ruilly wanted a spell to torment her husband, while Jehenne de Brigue wanted a spell to get the father of her children to marry her).

 

1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.

 

1863 - International Committee of Red Cross forms as a result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963). {The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signatories) to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 (Protocol I, Protocol II) and2005 have given the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of international and internal armed conflicts. Such victims include war wounded, prisoners,refugees, civilians, and othernon-combatants}.

 

1872 - J S Risdon patents metal windmill. {It shouldn't be imagined that aerodynamic lift (the force that makes airplanes fly) is a modern concept that was unknown to the ancients. The earliest known use of wind power, of course, is the sail boat, and this technology had an important impact on the later development of sail-type windmills. Ancient sailors understood lift and used it every day, even though they didn't have the physics to explain how or why it worked.The first windmills were developed to automate the tasks of grain-grinding and water-pumping and the earliest-known design is the vertical axis system developed in Persia about 500-900 AD}. 

 

1945 - First ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented. (László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, noticed that inks used in newspaper printing dried quickly. He decided to create a pen using the same type of ink. Bíró enlisted the help of his brother György, a chemist, to develop viscous ink formulas for new ballpoint designs. Bíró's innovation successfully coupled ink-viscosity with a ball-socket mechanism which act compatibly to prevent ink from drying inside the reservoir while allowing controlled flow.  In 1941, the Bíró brothers and a friend, Juan Jorge Meyne, fled Germany and moved to Argentina, where they formed Bíró Pens of Argentina and filed a  patent in 1943. Their pen was sold in Argentina as the Birome, which is how ballpoint pens are still known in that country. This new design was licensed by the British, who produced ballpoint pens for RAF aircrew as the Biro. Ballpoint pens were found to be more versatile than fountain pens, especially at high altitudes, where fountain pens were prone to ink-leakage).

 

1958 - Dr F Mason Sones is first doctor to perform a coronary angiogram.

 

1961 - New All India Muslim League was established.

 

1964 - Star of India & other jewels are stolen in New York.

 

1971 - The first successful use of electricity to repair a bone fracture is reported by surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania. Electrical currents have been used to heal bone since the mid-1800s, and the effect of electrical stimulation on bone has been long studied and well documented.When human bone is bent or broken, it generates an electrical charge.  This low level electrical charge stimulates the body's internal repair mechanism.

 

2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 US presidential election.

RIP....

1971 - Cyclone and tidal waves struck Orissa state claiming 10,000 lives.

1990 - Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor.

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Lt Gen Raj Kadyan