It is important to remember something about pain. Pain is for the living, only the dead don't feel it.
On this day, 02 Jan....
1757 - After the Battle of Plassey, Robert Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal.
1813 - A special Commission opened at York, England to put on trial 66 persons for offences connected with Luddism. Taking their name from (perhaps mythical) Ned Ludd, Luddites vowed to destroy the factory mechanisation they blamed for their unemployment. Within days, seventeen of them had been executed on the scaffold.
1839 - French pioneering photographer Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the moon. Unfortunately it was lost when on 8 Mar 1839, a fire burned his laboratory to the ground, together with his records and early experiment materials. (The earliest surviving photograph of the moon was taken by John Adams Whipple, 1851).
1879 - 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG.
1913 - Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa. (An 1100 acre piece of land purchased by Kallenbach for £2,000 on 30 May 1910. There were an estimated 1,000 fruit-bearing trees and a small plantation of eucalyptus trees). Gandhi was inspired by Tolstoy's writings who advocated non-violence as an appropriate response to aggression and the need for equitable treatment of the poor and working class. Thus the farm was named Tolstoy Farm because of Ghandi and Kallenbach's deep admiration for Count Leo Tolstoy. One of the aims of establishing the farm was to serve as training ground for new members of the passive resistance movement, prisoners and as a haven for their families.
1936 - The first electron tube to enable night vision was described.
1944 - 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).
1947 - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengal. After seeing Hindu-Muslim violence, Gandhi had said, "I will walk through Bengal and I will speak to every Indian I meet. I will teach him about peace and love."
1959 - The first lunar space, Luna 1, shot to escape the Earth's gravitational pull was launched by the Soviet Union. Just over 8 hours later, instead of impacting the Moon as intended, due to a guidance system error, it passed to within about 4,000 miles. Instead, it became the first spacecraft to enter orbit around the Sun. The spacecraft was equipped with instruments to measure cosmic radiation and also the magnetic fields of the Earth and the Moon. It released a cloud of sodium gas, which glowed due to the Sun's radiation like an artificial comet, and made it visible from Earth. Contact lasted 62 hours after the launch until the batteries were drained.
1960 - John Reynolds set the age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years.
1965 - Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan. (He remained President until his forced resignation amid a popular uprising in 1969).
1979 - Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI).
1991 - Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport.
Born....
1932 - Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, famous Ragi and reluctant politician.
1959 - Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83).
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
Raj Kadyan
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