Everything is funny and cool in retrospect.
On this day, 04 Feb....
1895 - The first rolling lift bridge opened over the Chicago River. This type was popular around 1900. One such bridge now remains in Chicago, the Cermak Road Bridge (1906), reopened in 1998 after two years of repair.
1913 - A patent for a "demountable tire-carrying rim" was issued to Louis Henry Perlman of New York City. This was the first automobile tire rim that was designed to be removed and remounted.
1915 - Experiments began to find the cause of the disease, pellagra, as more than 10,000 people died of pellagra in the US alone. It was eventually found that pellagra is caused by poor diet. The experiment is a medical classic as it alerted people to the importance of essential nutrients found in diets and it began the "biological age" in nutrition research during which the connection was made between disease and lack of essential nutrients in the diet which we call vitamins.
1932 : The first Winter Olympics was held in the United States.
1938 - The animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released and had major success in the box-office, making more money than any other motion picture up till that point.
1931 - Banks continue to close across the US when depositors ask for their deposits back. Most small banks had large amounts invested in the stock market and with the crash of wall street in late 1929 many banks do not have sufficient funds left to meet current members' deposits. The government is looking at schemes to bail the banks out and help consumer confidence.
1941 - Roy Plunkett received a U.S. patent for “Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers,” now known under the trade name Teflon. The invention was by accident, when on 6 Jun 1938, Plunkett had discovered a lining of the solid polymer had resulted when he examined the inside of containers that had stored tetrafluoroethylene gas under pressure.
1943 : Ransom Eli Olds, the creator of one of the first internal combustion engine designs, received his last patent.
1948 : Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from British rule and becomes an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1948 - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) banned.
1948 - Finance Minister announces nationalisation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after Sept 30, 1948.
1951 - The Longest surgery. The longest operation in medical history, taking four days, began in Chicago to remove a huge ovarian cyst from Mrs Gertrude Levandowski, age 58. Over a period of ten years, she had increased in weight to 616-lb and reached 9-ft in circumference. She had developed a huge ovarian cyst, causing a bad heart condition as it pressed against her heart. Dr. M.S. Roberts tapped the cyst, draining fluid slowly, 120 drops a minute, to slowly reduce its pressure on her heart. Some 200-lb of fluid were removed in four days. Then the remaining 100-lb cyst, the size of bushel-basket, was removed. Her weight dropped to only 308-lb after the operation.
1959 - This first day of the invention of the Barbie Doll. This doll was created by Ruth Handler, who was one of the founders of the Mattel Company. Barbie was named after Ruth’s daughter. (Later on, when the Ken doll was made, it was named after Ruth’s son).
1969 - The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded.
1990 - Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India.
2004 - Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
2006 - Following the publishing of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad Muslim protesters torched and destroyed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. And in Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and burning German and Danish flags.
Born....
1922 - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer.
RIP....
1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician who collaborated with Albert Einstein to develop a theory of statistical quantum mechanics, now called Bose-Einstein statistics.
Titbits...
2013 - The government of France overturned a two-hundred year old law that banned women from wearing trousers. The law had effectively been out of use for several years as people just ignored the law, however the change would make it formally legal for women to wear trousers.
You may have known....
Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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