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On this day, 28 May....
1897 -Jell-o was introduced. 52 years after Peter Cooper (inventor of the Tom Thumb engine) held the first U.S. patent for a gelatine dessert, Pearl B. Wait, a carpenter and cough medicine manufacturer from N.Y., produced varieties in strawberry, raspberry, orange and lemon fruit flavours, named Jell-O by his wife, May Davis Wait. Sales were poor; Wait sold the Jell-O business for $450 to his neighbor, Orator F.Woodward, who had founded the Genesee Pure Food Co. two years earlier. Success came slowly, but with Woodward's creative sales and sampling strategies, Jell-O began to catch on. In 1902, when he launched his first advertising campaign in Ladies' Home Journal, sales eventually reached $250,000.
1932 - The last opening was sealed completing the 20-mile long Barrier Dam (Afsluitdijk) in Holland to seal off the Zuyder Zee, a shallow inlet of the North Sea.
1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born to Elzire Dionne at their family farm in US. All five babies survived infancy. When they were just 4 months old, the government removed the girls from their parents, saying it feared American promoters would exploit them. Instead, the infants were put into a nearby hospital where they were paraded, sometimes up to four times a day, before paying spectators for a decade. Their faces were plastered on soap and milk cartons and they became the grist for a series of movies and radio specials. They grew up as prize exhibits, a tragic exploitation of a family.
1937 – Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
1971 - The U.S.S.R. Mars 3 was launched. It arrived at Mars on December 2, 1971. The lander was released from the Mars 3 orbiter and became the first spacecraft to land successfully on Mars.
1996 - 13-day-old BJP-led minority coalition govt headed by A.B. Vajpayee quits at the end of a two-day debate on a motion of confidence. A left-wing coalition takes over headed by new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader.
1998 - Pakistan made its first public underground nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-I, exploding five nuclear devices, becoming the seventh nuclear power. This came after years of development led by Abdul Kadeer Khan. United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. (Shortly after the Indo-Pakistan War in 1971, following its defeat and break-up, Pakistan began a nuclear weapons programme, and had its own clandestine facility for uranium enrichment from the mid 1980s).
2010 – In West Bengal, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
Born....
1883 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, poet and politician.
1903 – Shantanu L. Kirloskar, businessman, founded Kirloskar Group.
1923 - Nandamuri Tarak Ramarao, (NTR), film actor, director, producer, and politician.
RIP....
1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor.
You may have known....
The world’s biggest family lives in India. One man, 39 wives and 94 children.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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