Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.
On this day, 26 Jun....
1498 - The bristle toothbrush was invented in China. Coarse hair taken from the back of a hog's neck were used for the bristles, attached at right angles to a bone or bamboo handle, similar to the modern type. The best bristles came from hogs raised in the colder climates of China and Siberia, where the animals grew stouter and firmer hair. (Since 3000 BC, ancient civilisations had been cleaning teeth with a "chew-stick" by using a thin twig with a frayed end).
1721 - The first smallpox inoculations in America were given in Boston by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston when a smallpox epidemic struck. Reverend Cotton Mather, who lived in Boston, had previously heard from a slave of the practice being used in Africa. Of all the doctors Mather had urged to try it, Zabdiel Boylston, was the first doctor courageous enough to use the procedure.
1797 - Charles Newbold was issued the first US patent for a cast-iron plough. (When agriculture was first developed, simple hand-held digging sticks and hoes were used. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, although written references to the plough do not appear in English until c. 1100 at which point it is referenced frequently. The plough represents one of the major advances in agriculture).
1819 - The first US patent for a velocipede, a predecessor of the bicycle, was issued to William K. Clarkson Jr. of New York. ( Bicycles were introduced to the US also in 1819. The first archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817. The term bicycle was coined in France in the 1860s).
1888 - The first American patent for a gasoline-driven automobile was issued to Karl Benz of Mannheim, Baden, Germany.
1914 - The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it recognises "the validity of Indian customary marriages".
1954 - Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbour policy at New Delhi.
1974 - At 8:01 a.m., a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum with a bar code printed on it passed over a scanner at the Marsh Supermarket, Troy, Ohio, and became the first product ever logged under the new Universal Product Code (UPC) computerised recognition system. Invented by IBM, and approved for use in 1973, the UPC is a 12-number bar code representing the manufacturer's identity and an assigned product number. Within nanoseconds, this information is read with a laser beam moving at around 10,000 inches per second and transfers it to the store’s database computer for price lookup and inventory management.
1992 - India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh as per the Indo-Bangladesh agreement.
1995 - Madhya Pradesh declared "Tiger State" as it homes one sixth of the world's tiger population.
1997 - India declares its chemical weapon stockpiles and storage facilities as part of its obligations as signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
1999 - Kargil War. Pakistan gave tacit admission that its fighters were involved in the Kashmir region against Indian forces.
2004 - In Kashmir suspected Islamic rebels raided a village and shot to death 12 Muslims while they slept.
2012 - Cabinet minister Virbhadra Singh, resigned one day after a court in Himachal Pradesh charged him and his wife with conspiracy and corruption in a 23-year-old case related to one of his five terms as chief minister.
Born....
1888 - Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer.
RIP....
2004 - Yash Johar, film producer.
Titbits....
1963 - US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a dougnut") speech in West Berlin.
You may have known....
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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