On this day, 01 Jan - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure; leave no path untaken.

On this day, 01 Jan....

4713 BC - No particular event was recorded, but it became Julian day number 1.  The  Julian day number of a day is defined as the number of days since noon GMT on 1 Jan 4713 B.C. in the Julian Calendar, and each Julian day number runs from noon to noon.

1785 - The first edition of the newspaper The Universal Daily Register was published in London.   On 1 Jan 1788, the newspaper's name was changed to become The Times, by which it has been known to the present day. 

1790 - Accompanied by officers of the garrison and of the city, Sir Benjamin Thompson, in the service of the Elector of Bavaria, went into the streets of Munich and rounded up all the beggars and took them to a military workhouse set up for the purpose. A large unoccupied factory had been prepared for the employment and residence of these 2,600 people. The scourge of beggars in the streets was resolved, while providing them gainful employment. The first work programme was to make clothing for the Bavarian army.

1802 - A mammoth cheese was presented to President Thomas Jefferson by a church to recognise his support of religious liberty.  In preparing the cheese, local farmers established the first U.S. cheese factory cooperative, using the milk curds of 900 cows. The cheese   was 4-ft 4½-in diam., 15-in thick; was transported to the White House on a six-horse wagon.

1841 - Austrian inventor Friedrich Voigtländer began selling the world's first purpose-built portrait camera.

1850 - The world's first pictorial stamp was issued by New South Wales, Australia. Collectors call it the “Sydney View” for the background.

1850 - The lamp was lit at the first iron pile lighthouse in the U.S. just outside the Boston Harbour. It was the first lighthouse in the U.S. to be exposed to the ocean's full fury. It was feared to be unsafe by its keepers, who reported it swayed badly in storms. The structure was swept away in a great gale on 16 Apr 1851.

1853 - The first practical U.S. steam fire engine began service, named the Uncle Joe Ross, after a city councilman, who championed it.

1880 - Money order system was introduced.

1896 - German scientist, Wilhelm Röntgen announced his discovery of X-rays.

1902- The first radio broadcast demonstration in the U.S. was given by Nathan B. Stubblefield.

1904 - The Motor Car Act 1903 came into force in Britain, requiring the registration of motor vehicles with the local council. The first registration marks consisted of one letter and one number. The first (A1) was issued by London County Council.

1906 - In British India, all the railway and telegraph clocks were put at Indian Standard Time.  It was set as the meridian passing through Allahabad at 82.5° east of the Greenwich Meridian longitude.

1910 - A list of 16 pilots holding licences to fly powered aircraft was published by the Aero Club of France. These were the world's first pilot licence holders. Without a test, they were for those who had actually flown by Dec 1909.

1913 - In Great Britain, the country's first national film censorship began. To avoid formal central government censorship, the film industry formed the British Board of Film Censorship, to be a self-censoring body.

1915 - Aspirin was made available for the first time in tablet form. The pills were manufactured by Bayer pharmaceuticals in Germany. The medicine had previously been sold in powder form from 1 May 1899.

1916 - Blood that had been stored and cooled was used for the first time in a blood transfusion. Until 1913, direct transfusion was the only technique practised, despite being a difficult and time-consuming method, requiring trained personnel and was impractical for as a procedure in sudden emergencies. This demonstrated the value of cooling to store blood.

1924 - The first U.S.patent for ink paste was issued. Paste ink was designed to be rendered fluid for use by the addition of water. This facilitated packaging and also reduced shipping costs.

1928 - the first high-rise office building in the world with air-conditioning installed during construction - the Milam Building - opened in San Antonio, Texas.

1946 - ENIAC, the first U.S. computer was built. Though not the first ever computer, ENIAC is regarded as the first successful, general digital computer. It weighed over 27,000 kg  and contained more than 18,000 vacuum tubes.

1951 - The first pay television in the U.S. started test transmissions to a limited group of subscribers in Chicago.

1954 - The first colour mobile television units in the U.S. were placed in service

1962 - An ordinance banning the open-burning of leaves, trees, shrubbery or plants on land within New York City took effect. The action reflected concern over air pollution and its effect on health, and control against smog.

1967 - The first fluoridation law in the U.S. went into effect in Connecticut, requiring fluoridation of public water supplies serving 20,000 or more population, to prevent dental caries.

1976 - Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on Indian TV stations started.

1988 - The Indian Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. 

Born....

1894 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physics expert; worked with Albert Einstein for some time.

1951 - Nana Patekar, film and stage actor.

1975 - Sonali Bendre, model and actress.

1978 - Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist.

1986 - Vidya Balan, film actress.

RIP....

1944 - Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time.

1966 - Bimal Roy, film maker and producer.

1975 - Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, famous iindustrialist.

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan