Without knowledge of the past we shall lose the future.
On this day, 31 Jan....
1747 - The first clinic specializing in the treatment of venereal diseases was opened at London Dock Hospital.
1839 - Henry Fox Talbot read a paper before the Royal Society, London, to describe his photographic process using solar light, with an exposure time of about 20 minutes.
1893 - The trademark "Coca-Cola" was first registered in the United States Patent Office. (The name refers to two of its original ingredients: kola nuts, a source of caffeine, and coca leaves. The current formula of Coca-Cola remains a trade secret, although a variety of reported recipes and experimental recreations have been published).
1893 - Thomas A. Edison was issued a patent for the "Art of Generating Electricity", which described a cell made with positive and negative electrodes in a heated chamber containing dry chemicals which is exhausted to the point that gases generated in the reaction become good conductors of electricity.
1945 - Private Eddie Slovik became the only U.S. soldier since the U.S. Civil War to be executed for desertion.
1958 - The United States entered the space age by launching the first successful orbiting satellite, Explorer-I, four months after the Soviet launch of Sputnik on 4 Oct 1957.
1961 - The U.S. launched a 4-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into suborbital flight to test the capabilities of the Mercury capsule. During his 16.5 minute suborbital flight, Ham experienced about 7 minutes of weightlessness, reached an altitude of 108 miles and a speed of 13,000 mph. He was wired to medical sensors to monitor his vital signs. During flight, Ham performed some simple tasks such as pulling levers when a light came on for a reward of banana pellets. Ham was recovered safely 1,425 miles downrange. This was a test flight before risking the lives of human beings. Now, after Ham's successful flight, NASA was ready to launch the first Mercury astronaut, Alan Shepard, into sub-orbital flight three months later.
1960 - Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s.
1963 - Peacock declared as National Bird of India.
1983 - The wearing of seat belts in cars became compulsory in Britain.
1985 - Under the 52nd Constitutional Amendment, Anti-Defector Bill was passed unanimously in Lok Sabha. This avoided the Representatives of People to switch over political parties.
1985 - The final Jeep rolled off the assembly line at the AMC plant in Ohio. (Willys MB Jeeps went into production in 1941 specifically for the military, arguably making them the oldest four-wheel drive mass-production vehicles now known as SUVs).
1997 - INS Vikrant, Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier, de-commissioned.
Born....
1975 - Preity Zinta, film actress.
RIP....
1994 - Milind Desai, 12, the youngest editor in Gujarati journalism.
You may have known....
India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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