On this day, 22 Jan Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

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On this day, 22 Jan....

1879 - In South Africa battles at Isandlwana, Zulu impis or regiments armed with spears and shields, killed around 1,300 British troops bearing rifles. Private Samuel Wassall lived through the battle and was awarded the Victoria Cross along with 14 others.

1939 - The uranium atom was split for the first time using the cyclotron at Columbia University in New York City. Thus began the Manhattan Project, leading to the construction of the atom bomb.

1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.

1976 - A PLO bank robbery in Beirut netted a world record $20-50 million.

1986 - Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh were sentenced to death for the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

1993 - A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off.

1997 - American Lottie Williams was reportedly the first human to be struck by a remnant of a space vehicle after re-entering the earth's atmosphere. At 3 a.m., while walking in a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she saw a light pass over her head. “It looked like a meteor,” she said. Minutes later, she was hit on the shoulder by a six-inch piece of blackened metallic material.  It made her the only person in the world known to have been hit by man-made space debris.

1999 - Graham Stewart Staines, an Australian missionary, and his 2 sons were burned to death in Manoharpur by activists of the Bajrang Dal. A trial court later sentenced Dara Singh to death but in 2011 it was reduced to life in prison on appeal.

2012 - British author Salman Rushdie accused Indian police of making up an underworld plot to assassinate him that forced him to pull out of a literary festival.

2002 - In Calcutta heavily armed gunmen attacked the U.S. government cultural centre. Five police officers were killed and twenty others, including one pedestrian and one private security guard, were wounded.

Born....

1788 - George Gordon, also known as Lord Byron, English poet. Was born with a deformed foot.

RIP....

1666 - Shah Jahan,  Mongul emperor of India that built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz-i-Mahal.

1901 - Britain's Queen Victoria, the monarch of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India,  after presiding over her vast empire for nearly 64 years. Victoria became queen in 1837. In 1840, she married Prince Albert. Although the match was a political one, the two were devoted to each other, having nine children before Albert's death in 1861. Through dynastic marriages, Victoria's descendants are connected to almost all 20th-century Europe's royal houses. During Victoria's long reign the monarchy lost much of its political power to Parliament, but she was the beloved symbol of the Victorian Era-a golden age of British history.

Titbits....

1908 - Katie Mulcahey became the first woman to run afoul of New York City's just-passed ban on females smoking in public. Declaring, "No man shall dictate to me," Mulcahey served a night in jail after being unable to pay a $5 fine.

You may have known....

India has 29 main festivals, 22 languages and 1600 dialects.

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan