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On this day, 27 Jan....
1880 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp he invented on 21 Oct 1879. Edison’s invention of the light bulb had a major impact on the electronics and computer industries.
1888 - National Geographic Society was established with a mission: “a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.” By Oct 1888, the first National Geographic Magazine was published, which continues its monthly issues to the present with photographs and popular articles now expanded from topics of geography and exploration to science, history and world cultures.
1894 - 1st college basketball game, US.
1921 - In his address 'Geometry and Expansion' Albert Einstein, applying certain results of the relativity theory, suggested the possibility of measuring the universe. It startled the audience.
1926 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a true television system in London. Baird's invention was a pictorial transmission machine he called a “televisor". Baird's first television programme showed the heads of two ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the camera apparatus out of view of the audience.(The BBC started the first public broadcasts in London in 1936. Regular television broadcasts began in the US in 1939).
1943 - 1st US air attack on Germany.
1944 - After 872 days of the siege of Leningrad by German forces allowing no food or medical supplies to enter, which caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Russian lives, The Siege was finally broken.
1948 - 1st tape recorder sold.
1950 - Science magazine announced the new antibiotic terramycin. Made by Charles Pfizer & Co., it was found effective against pneumonia, dysentery, and other infections. Acting on theories that bacteria-fighting organisms would be found in soil, Pfizer solicited soil samples worldwide, received 135,000 soil samples and conducted more than 20 million tests. Said one of the researchers, “We got soil samples from the bottom of mine shafts... from the bottom of the ocean... from the desert... mountains and in between.”
1951 - The US government detonates the first of a series of nuclear bombs at its new Nevada test site.
1964 - E.I. duPont de Nemours Co. introduced Corfam. This hydrocarbon-based, synthetic substitute for leather was flexible, with tiny pores, for uses such as shoes, handbags, belts and suitcases. Shoes put on sale with Corfam uppers were supposed to give consumers the look, feel and durability of leather. DuPont predicted that by 1984, 25% of America's shoes would be made of Corfam. But synthetic leather was snubbed by customers in droves. It was one of the best-prepared products in terms of market and technology development and yet it failed. Production ceased in 1971.
1970 - James M. Schlatter received a patent for “Peptide Sweetening Agents”, an invention which eventually led to the marketing of aspartame under the name NutraSweet. A few months before filing, he had accidentally discovered the first example of such compounds. To pick up a paper, he had licked his finger. He tasted an unexpectedly sweet trace of a substance that had, he realised, earlier splashed onto the outside of a flask he had handled. After development and much scrutiny of the testing of aspartame, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it with many permitted uses as a food sweetener.
1973 - The Vietnam war formally ended when ministers from the United States, North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong signed an agreement in Paris.
2002 - Explosions at a munitions store cause a huge explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, which starts a stampede of fleeing people, during which more than 1,000 people are killed.
Born....
1926 - General Arunkumar Vaidya, former Army Chief.
1967 - Bobby Deol, film actor.
RIP....
1967 - Edward H. White II, the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space. He was killed during a flight simulation programme of Apollo 1.
1972 - V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer.
Titbits....
1984 - Michael Jackson receives serious burns to his head after his hair caught light while singing his hit "Billie Jean" for a Pepsi Cola commercial in Los Angeles when the special effects went wrong.
1985 - Coca Cola starts distribution in the Soviet Union 12 years after Pepsi.
You may have known....
India never invaded any country in her long years of history.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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