If a man begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he is content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
On this day, 23 Jan....
638 -Start of Islamic calendar.
971 - First regular war elephant corps employed in Chinese army by Shan State and defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
971 - First regular war elephant corps employed in Chinese army by Shan State and defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
1556 - Shaanxi Earthquake - deadliest ever recorded; kills 830,000.
1812 - The second day of powerful earthquakes that struck, with an epicenter in the far southeast corner of Missouri, US. It was a part of a three-month series in the central Mississippi River valley, known as the New Madrid earthquakes. They began on 16 Dec 1811, with the first two major earthquakes six hours apart, each with an epicenter in northeastern Arkansas. All were powerful, about magnitude 7-7.5. There were many aftershocks, and an a final major earthquake on 7 Feb 1812. They remain among the most powerful earthquakes in the United States.
1897 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1896 - Wilhelm Röntgen first made a public lecture-demonstration of his X-ray device, in Würzburg, Germany.
1909 - 1st radio rescue at sea.
1920 - Air transportation began in India by two Royal Air Force planes between Karachi and Bombay, and Air Mail service started.
1960 - A specially constructed bathyscaphe, the Trieste, descended 35,810 feet in the Pacific Ocean into Challenger Deep. This, is the deepest point known to exist on earth. The Trieste cabin was a six-foot diameter steel capsule weighing 14 tons engineered by Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard to withstand the 16,000 lbs/sq.in. water pressure at that depth. Jacques Piccard (Auguste's son) and Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh made the five-hour descent, setting a deep-diving record. Through their window, they saw a foot-long fish, and thus answered the question of biologists who long wondered whether life could exist at such depths of the ocean. The record has stood unchallenged since their historic dive.
1964 - The first animal to human heart transplant was made. Dr. James Hardy at the University of Mississippi transplanted the heart of a chimpanzee into the chest of Boyd Rush (age 68) in a last-ditch effort to save the man's life because no human heart was available. The newly-transplanted heart beat on its own; but it was too small to maintain independent circulation and Rush died after 90 minutes. Hardy had to endure some severe criticism. (This was three years before Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant). Hardy also made the first human lung transplant in 1963 and a double-lung transplant that left the heart in place in 1987.
1997 - 50,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down.
1997 - Statue of Subhash Bose unveiled inside Parliament House.
Born....
1897 - Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
1915 - Kamal Nayan Bajaj, famous industrialist.
1927 - Balasaheb Thackrey, Shiv Sena chief.
You may have known....
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Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
Raj Kadyan
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