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On this day, 25 May....
1852 - Elisha Graves Otis was issued a U.S. patent for a “Railroad-Car Truck and Brake”. Otis is well-known for his invention of the safety elevator in the same year, which used automatic braking devices to arrest the fall of an elevator car if its supporting cable broke.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1940 - In one of the most famous animal tests in medical history, eight mice were inoculated with a lethal dose of streptococci and then four of them were injected with penicillin. Next day the four mice given streptococci alone were dead, the four with penicillin were healthy.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting from the campus of the University of Houston.
1961 - The formal announcement of an American lunar landing was made by President John F. Kennedy speaking to the Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space programme in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”
1999 - The Prime Minister declares the Centre will take all possible steps to push back infiltrators in Kargil.
Born....
1886 – Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader.
1889 Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, born in Kiev, Ukraine.
1936 - Rusi Framroz Surti, cricketer (Indian slow lefty, hat-trick1969).
RIP....
1606 - Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir.
1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people
Titbits....
1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
You may have known....
The state of Meghalaya is the wettest inhabited place of earth.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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