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On this day, 03 Jul....
1661 - Portugal gives Tangier & Bombay to English King Charles II.
1760 - Maratha army, under Sadashiv Rao Bhau and Vishvas Rao, captured Delhi.
1806 - Michael Keens, a market gardener of Isleworth near London, exhibited the first cultivated strawberry that combined size, flavor, and colour at the Royal Horticultural Society. The 600 strawberry varieties found today stem from five or six original wild species, and are a member of the rose family. The wild, small, fragrant forest strawberry of Europe was available to the Romans in the Middle Ages. Europeans discovered wild strawberries in Virginia when their ships landed there in 1588, grown by local American Indians who had cultivated strawberries as early as 1643. When Virginia sent a better flavored, strawberry to England in 1642, and a large white strawberry from Chile was introduced in 1806, the big fruit we know today, emerged. (Strawberries are unique, because they are the only fruit with seeds on the outside).
1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors.
1886 - The first U.S. newspaper page set by Linotype was the New York Daily Tribune for this day's editorial page. Ottmar Mergenthaler had produced the world's first linecasting machine; the time-consuming process of setting type by hand was eliminated. The machine was originally called "Blower" and later renamed "Linotype" (short for "Line of type").
1886 - Karl Benz drove the first automobile in the world in Mannheim, Germany, reaching a top speed of 10 mph. The motorwagen was a carriage-like three-wheeler with tubular framework, with tiller steering and a buggy-like seat for two. Though the vehicle was awkward and frail, it incorporated some essential elements that would characterise the modern vehicle.
1928 - 1st colour TV broadcast in London.
1929 - Foam rubber was developed at the Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories in Birmingham. British scientist E.A. Murphy whipped up the first batch in 1929, using an ordinary kitchen mixer to froth natural latex rubber. His colleagues were unimpressed - until they sat on it. Within five years it was everywhere, on motorcycle seats, on London bus seats, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre seats, and eventually in mattresses.
1952 - The first surgical operation in the U.S. to expose the heart's mitral valve for a prolonged time was undertaken by Dr Forest Dewey Dodrill. The patient, a 41-year-old man, was provided with The Michigan Heart as a substitute for the lower left ventricle.
1961 - Three men were killed in the first fatal nuclear accident in the U.S. when an experimental reactor exploded. The Stationary Low-Power Plant was part of the National Reactor Testing Station. An 80-lb control rod was lifted by hand beyond its safe position, causing a core meltdown and explosion of the reactor. Four days were spent to devise a safe method to recover one of the corpses. All three bodies were extremely radioactive, causing problems for their burial. Clean-up took 18 months. Investigators were never able to determine why this “abnormal act” occurred. (Two decades later, a documentary speculated one of the men had marital problems and sabotaged the reactor).
1987 - British millionaire Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first to cross the Atlantic by hot-air balloon, named Virgin Atlantic Flyer. They travelled a distance of 2,900 miles from from Sugarloaf Mountain, Maine, in 33 hours to set a new record for hot air ballooning. Three years later, they crossed the Pacific in another balloon from Japan to Arctic Canada, a distance of 6,700 miles, breaking all existing records with speeds of up to 245 miles per hour.
1996 - 25 to 30% hike in prices of petroleum products in India.
Born....
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor.
Titbits....
1936 - Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge University v MCC.
1989 - The movie "Batman" set record of quickest $100 million (10 days).
You may have known....
42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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