An apology is the best way to have the last word.
On this day, 17 Jun....
1756 - Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.
1837 - Charles Goodyear obtained his first rubber-processing patent. At this time, the original india-rubber would become sticky melt in the summer heat. Goodyear resolved to solve this problem. After various unsuccessful methods, he devised a process to treat the India rubber with metallic solutions such as copper nitrate and strong acid for a few minutes, followed by washing with water. Such process treated both rubber on the surface and below the surface to a useful condition.
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour from France aboard French ship `Isere'. The hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty had been displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, in Philadelphia, ten years before the rest of the statue was completed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. The engineer for the framework was Gustave Eiffel (also known for his Eiffel Tower).
1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman passenger to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Wales.
1932 - Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1936 - Edwin H. Armstrong demonstrated his invention of FM radio in Washington D.C. to a fact-finding investigation conducted by the Federal Communications Commission into the future of radio and television.
1950 - The first kidney transplant operation took place in Chicago in a 45-minute operation performed by Dr. Richard H. Lawler.
1967 - China tested its first hydrogen bomb. This was China's sixth nuclear test, and its first full scale radiation implosion weapon test. Thus China became world's 4th thermonuclear power.
1970 - Edwin Land patented the Polaroid camera.
1988 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0.
1991 - The body of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the USA, is exhumed to test how he died; rumours had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning - no evidence of this was found.
1991 - South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws.
Born....
1973 - Leander Vece Paes, tennis player.
1980 - Venus Williams, American tennis star considered one of the all-time greats of women's tennis.
RIP....
1631 - Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
1858 - Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857.
1965 - Motilal, famous film actor.
1996 - Balasahab Devras, Sarsangha Chalak of Rashtriya Sawyamsewak Sangh.
Titbits....
1988 - Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens.
You may have known....
The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word “Navigation” is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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