A VERY HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
On this day, 26Jan....
1697 - Isaac Newton received and solved Jean Bernoulli’s brachistochrone problem. The Swiss mathematician Bernoulli had challenged his colleagues to solve it within six months. Newton not only solved the problem before going to bed that same night, but in doing so, invented a new branch of mathematics called the calculus of variations. Newton, age 55, sent the solution to be published, at his request, anonymously. But the brilliant originality of the work betrayed his identity, for when Bernoulli saw the solution he commented, “We recognize the lion by his claw.”
1700 - An earthquake, the most intense Canada has ever seen, hit the sea floor off the British Columbia coast. Long before Europeans first landed on Vancouver Island, native legend tells of a great disaster. The sea rose in a heaving wave, and landslides buried a sleeping village. Myth was resolved with science in 2003 by government research. Earthquakes of that intensity cause tidal waves, and Japanese written history tells of a massive tsunami striking fishing villages the next day along the coast of Honshu, killing hundreds. Coupled with geological evidence of the level 9 quake, the connection was clear. Mythology and seismology came together to validate history.
1784 - Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol. The bald eagle looked more like a turkey, which prompted Franklin to compare the two birds as a symbol for the United States. Writing from France on January 26, 1784 - A year and a half after the Great Seal was adopted by Congress on June 20, 1782, in a letter to his daughter Sally, Franklin cast doubt on the propriety of using the eagle to symbolize the "brave and honest Cincinnati of America," a newly formed society of revolutionary war officers. He did not express these personal musings elsewhere, but they have become legendary.
1875 - George F. Green of Kalamazoo, Michigan, patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth, described as an "electromagnetic dental tool".
1905 - World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa.
1911 - Glenn Curtiss piloted the first hydroplane flight at North Island, San Diego, California, with a successful take-off from water and landing on water, rose six feet and flew about two or three hundred yards. The airplane Flying Fish had pontoons in place of wheels.
1926 - 1st public demonstration of television by John Logie Baird in his laboratory in London.
1929 - Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence.
1950 - India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth, ceasing to be a British dominion. Constitution of India goes into effect.
1950 - Government of India accepted the National Emblem. It consisted of Head of Lion which is taken from Ashok pillar situated near Sarnath. (The Lion Capital was erected in the third century BC by Emperor Ashoka to mark the spot where Buddha first proclaimed his gospel of peace and emancipation to the four quarters of the universe).
1961 - Special stamps dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi in the Champion of Liberty series issued by the United States postal department.
1965 - Hindi Language is accepted as National language of India.
1997 - Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places.
1997 - Government prohibits manual scavenging and construction of dry latrines in six states (AP, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura, West Bengal) and all UTs.
1997 - Mizoram becomes a dry state, the fourth, after Gujarat, AP and Haryana.
2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
Born....
1927 - Air Chief Marshall Laxman Madhav Katre, former Air Chief.
RIP....
1992 - Bharat Bhushan, the legendary romantic film hero of the 1950's.
You may have known....
The Indian voting count is the largest in the world, amounting to over 550 million votes cast in 2014.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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