Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
On this day, 12 Jul....
1109 - Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli.
1674 - Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company.
1817 - 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland).
1844 - Captain J.N. Taylor of the Royal Navy first demonstrated the fog horn. At the time, it was called a telephone - to mean far-signalling, thus an instrument like a fog-horn, used on ships, railway trains, etc., for signalling by loud sounds or notes. The chief object of this powerful wind instrument is to convey signals during foggy weather.
1859 - The paper bag manufacturing machine was patented by William Goodale, US.
1862 - US Congress authorises Medal of Honor. (The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest military honour, awarded for personal acts of valour above and beyond the call of duty. The medal is awarded by the President to U.S. military personnel only).
1870 - A U.S. patent for an improved process to produce celluloid was awarded to John Wesley Hyatt, Jr., the man considered to be the “father of the U.S. Plastics industry,” and his brother, Isaiah S. Hyatt of Albany, N.Y. In the early 1860's he sought a substitute material for ivory billiard balls. He called the new product “Celluloid,” a name trademarked on 14 Jan 1873. It was the first synthetic plastic. Unfortunately, it was inflammable, but was used for a period for production of photographic film, among other applications.
1906 - The first long-distance wireless telegraphy message across water in the southern hemisphere was transmitted 300-km across Bass Strait from Devonport, Tasmania to Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, to demonstrate Marconi's equipment. The town celebrated. Businesses closed for the afternoon. A band played for the crowd of 2000 people at the event.
1922 - The new issue of the blue 10-cent U.S. Special Delivery stamp had for the first time the image of a motor cycle, replacing the 9 Dec 1902 version with a bicycle. It demonstrated a growing post-World War I interest in developing technology.
1928 - 1st televised tennis match.
1949 - Ban on RSS lifted on the assurance that it abjures violence.
1957 - Dwight Eisenhower became the 1st US President to fly in helicopter.
1999 - India sets a deadline for intruders withdrawal from Kargil, announces suspension of air strikes.
Born....
1909 - Bimal Roy, film producer and director.
1983 - Munaf Patel, cricketer.
1997 - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist.
RIP....
1489 - Bahlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan and founder of Lodi dynasty.
1970 - Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
1999 - Rajendra Kumar, legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films.
2000 - 67 persons died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Ghatkopar, a Mumbai suburb.
Titbits....
1987 - As more and more areas of land are sold for development of new out of town shopping Malls in New York, the land prices that a decade earlier were a mere $2,000 per acre, commanded up to $100,000 per acre.
You may have known....
The Baily Bridge, built by the Indian Army in August 1982, located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains, is the highest bridge in the world.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
No comments:
Post a Comment