Monday 1 February 2016

On this day, 01 Feb Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

What you sow in spring you reap in autumn.

On this day, 01 Feb....

1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.

1793 - Ralph Hodgson patented oiled silk.

1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.

1811 - The Bell Rock Lighthouse was lit for the first time.  It was built by Robert Stevenson on a treacherous sandstone reef, which, except at low tides, lies submerged just beneath the waves. Since then, no repair has been necessary to its stonework. It is the oldest sea-washed lighthouse in existence. It was Stevenson's fine achievement, regarded by many as the finest lighthouse ever built, the most outstanding engineering achievement of the 19th century. In the centuries before, the dangerous Bell Rock had claimed thousands of lives, as vessels were wrecked on its razor-sharp serrated rocks.

1851 - The submarine, Le Plongeur-Marin was tested in Kiel Harbour, but it suffered leaks in the hull and sank 50 feet. Its builder, Sebastian Wilhelm Valentin Bauer, a German pioneer inventor of submarines, was on board. He survived by waiting for the inside air pressure, compressed as more water leaked in, to match the water pressure outside. Seven hours later, he and his crew opened the hatch and rose to the surface to find funeral services in progress. He was not deterred by the accident, and went on to build a treadmill-powered, 52-ft iron submarine, Le Diable-Marin   carrying 11 crew. The photographs Bauer made through its windows are probably the first taken underwater.

1851 - Evaporated milk was invented by Gail Borden.

1887 - Harvey Wilcox subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood).

1898 - 1st auto insurance policy in U.S. issued.

1911 - Thomas Jennings was found guilty with the first use of fingerprint evidence in the U.S. He was convicted at the Criminal Court of Cook County for killing Clarence B. Hiller. Upon appeal, 21 Dec 1911, the Illionis Supreme Court ruled the evidence was admissible.

1951 - The TV station KTLA broadcast an atomic explosion. This was the first to be seen publicly on television.

1972 - The first scientific hand-held calculator was introduced for $395 by Hewlett- Packard, named the HP-35 for having 35 keys. It was the first hand-held calculator able to perform logarithmic and trigonometric functions with one keystroke. 

1985 - Muhammad Azharuddin created a world record at Kanpur by hitting a century in each of his first three tests.

1994 - ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company.

Born....

1889 - Amrit Kaur, an eminent social worker, freedom fighter and political leader, was born a princess in the royal family of King Harman Singh of Kapoorthala. She assisted Gandhi for 18 years and was connected with World Health Organisation and Red Cross Society.

1958 - Jackie Shroff, film actor.

1971 - Ajaysingh Jadeja, cricketer.

RIP....

1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor.

1992 - Mohan Choty, comedy film actor.

Titbits....

1902 -  China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet. (Foot binding was a sign of social status. If a woman's feet were bound, it was a sign that she was a higher-class woman who did not have to do hard work. However, foot binding slowly spread to the lower classes who wanted to try and get a higher social status. By the 17th century, Chinese girls of all social statuses had their feet bound. The practice lasted until the early 20th century, when it was banned by the People's Republic of China. It was finally made illegal by the Chinese government in the 20th century).

You may have known....

Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan

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