When angry words arise, a closed mouth is soothing.
On this day, 30 Jan....
1790 - At the mouth of the river Tyne in England, the ship Adventure had ran ashore in a violent storm in 1789. Though in sight of help, the crew of eight all perished. Spectators offered local boatmen rewards to save the crew, but none would venture out to face certain death. This led to building of the first lifeboat named 'Original', which was tested on this day in 1790. The 'Original' was 30ft long, twelve oars, self-righting, and had seven hundredweight of cork for buoyancy. She went out to wrecks for forty years, saving hundreds of lives.
1844 - Richard Theodore Greener became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
1847 - The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
1894 - Charles B. King of Detroit, Michigan, received a patent for the pneumatic hammer. Pneumatic tools had been developed and manufactured as early as 1883. Inside the hammer, a piston in a cylinder was driven by air pressure to hit a striker and tool.
1911 - The first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer "Terry." Pilot James McCurdy was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse. Prior to his death, there had been five unsuccessful attempts to kill Gandhi, the first occurring in 1934.
1950 - Development of the hydrogen fusion bomb (H-bomb) was ordered by U.S. President Truman. The codename of "Super" for the project reflected the far greater power of this thermonuclear device over the earlier fission bombs used to end WW II.
1957 - An external artificial pacemaker with internal heart electrode was first used. To maintain a patient's heartbeat rhythm an electrode was sewn to the wall of the heart and connected through the chest to an external desk-top pulse generator. However, such bulky equipment was not a good long-term solution since infection often occurred along the electrode wires, and the device required no interruption in the house electricity. Research was undertaken for use of a small portable external pacemaker for patients with heart block. This ultimately led to the development of the billion-dollar pacemaker industry.
1958 - Yves Saint Laurent, at age 22, held his first major fashion show in Paris.
1958 - The first two-way, moving sidewalk, 1,425 feet long, was put in service at Love Field Air Terminal in Dallas, Texas. It was also known as a passenger conveyor.
1994 - Peter Leko became the world's youngest-ever grand master in chess. (Born in Sep 1979, a two-time World Championship Candidate, he challenged Vladimir Kramnik in the Classical World Chess Championship 2004 and drew the match 7–7, with Kramnik retaining the title).
1996 - Mob ransacks Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Bangalore.
1998 - A new glue, Dermabond, able to replace painful stitches, won the unanimous vote of a medical advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration, US. As claimed the Dermabond could seal off certain wounds quickly, without the need for painful shots, With the use of Dermabond, a wound can be kept closed, sterile and flexible while it is healing. A doctor simply presses the cut's edges together and paints the glue across the top. Proper medical application takes skill and practice, so the glue isn't meant for home use.
2002 - Japan's last coal mine was closed. The closures were due to high production costs and cheap imports.
RIP....
1528 - Rana Sanga of Mewar, who had built up an extensive and powerful kingdom over the central and western regions of Northern India.
Titbits....
1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
You may have known....
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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