When an old man dies, a library burns down with him.
On this day, 21 Jan....
1789 -1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published.
1790 - Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed the guillotine to the newly formed National Assembly of Paris as a "humane" method of execution. Three years later, in 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine, for treason. {Named after the originator, A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The aim of capital punishment was to end life and not to inflict pain. Designed during the French Revolution, the guillotine continued to be used long after the Revolution and remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981 (except certain crimes against the security of the State, or for the death sentences passed by military courts, which entailed execution by firing squad). The last person guillotined in France was Hamida Djandoubi, on 10 September 1977. (The first execution by guillotine was performed on highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on 25 April 1792). Interestingly Dr Guillotin was opposed to the death penalty but his name became associated with the system}.
1853 -
Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Massa chusettes.
1880 - 1st U.S. sewage disposal system separate from storm drains
was started.
1908 - New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public.
1952 - Indian National Congress party wins the 1st General Election of India under the ledearship of Jawaharlal Nehru.
1954 - The first atomic submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Connecticut.
1970 - The world's largest airplane, 'Jumbo jet', Boeing 747, had its first flight from New York to London. With almost double the capacity of Boeing 737. the 747 opened up economic long-distance travel to the masses.
1977 - Italy legalizes abortion.
1984 - Britain's first test-tube triplets - a girl and two boys - were born to a couple in London. The mother was Anne Maaye.
1986 - 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 3 degrees C, Indiana, US.
1994 - India and Myanmar decide to open border trade.
1998 - News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations.
1999 - Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai.
2015 - E-commerce company eBay announces that it will lay off 2,400 employees in advance of its plans to spin off its PayPal unit.
RIP....
1960 - Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning.
1978 - Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer, poet, editor of 'Dainik Batori', journalist and lawyer. He participated in the Quit India Movement for which he was arrested.
1983 - R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Navy.
2005 - Parveen Babi, Indian actress.
Titbits....
1990 - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open.
You may have known....
India’s Amul produces over seventy million tonnes of milk every year.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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