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On this day, 18 Jun....
1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher.(The term 'meet one's waterloo' meaning 'To encounter one's ultimate obstacle and to be defeated by it' came into being after this battle).
1912 - A patent was issued for a mercury vapour lamp to Peter Hewitt.
1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US.
1966 - California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar.
1978 - The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened.
1981 - The first genetically engineered vaccine was announced: the first effective subunit vaccine for any animal or human disease using gene splicing. It was designed to prevent hoof and mouth disease (FMD).
1983 - Sally K. Ride, mission specialist, became America's first woman in space. Challenger was the seventh shuttle mission, and the first to carry a woman crew member.
1989 - India and Pakistan decide to end the five-year-old confrontation in Siachen Glacier area by redeploying their forces.
1993 - Shri Advani takes over as BJP President.
2000 - K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
2015 - Kennewick Man was confirmed to be Native American in a letter published in Nature. The 8,500-year-old skeleton discovered on 28 July 1996 at first seemed possibly of Caucasian or Asian origin.
Born....
1942 - Paul McCartney, English musician and member of The Beatles.
RIP....
2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer.
You may have known....
The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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