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On this day, 21 Oct ....
1824 - In Yorkshire, England, Joseph Aspdin, a stone mason, patented Portland cement, made by burning finely pulverized lime and clay at high temperatures in kilns. Thus Aspdin had made a manufactured counterpart to natural or Roman cement - a crude formulation of lime and volcanic ash used as early as 27 BC.
1852 - A Royal Letters Patent was given to John Fowler of Temple Gate, Bristol for “Improvements in Machinery for Draining Land.” This is believed to be his first patent for steam cultivation of the land. In 1847 he saw the results of the great potato famine in Ireland. Driven by his Quaker beliefs, he returned to England, determined to mechanise land drainage. His first patent was for a horse-drawn drainage plough. The Mole Drainage Plough he displayed at the great exhibition of 1851 won national awards, and helped the Irish peasants drain their peat bogs. Shortly thereafter, he applied steam power to the task.
1854 - Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War.
1895 - Liquid air for refrigeration and other purposes largely produced by machinery, invented by Carl Linde, was reported.
1915 - The first experimental transatlantic radiotelephone speech communication was made. Taking advantage of the recently developed vacuum-tube transmitters and receivers, AT&T conducted radiotelephony tests from the U.S. Navy station in Arlington. B. Webb of AT&T in Arlington, Virginia talks to Lt. Col. Ferries of the French Government using relay points in Canada and at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. His voice was heard as far away as Honolulu.
1943 - Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader.
1947 - The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad.
1954 - Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.
1963 - The first residential Trimline telephone in the U.S. was placed in service by the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. It was made available to all its customers throughout the company's service area on 2 Aug 1965 for an optional $1 monthly extra charge.
1983 - David, the “the boy in the bubble,” underwent a bone marrow transplant operation in the hope that it could help him develop the immunity he had lacked all his life. He was born with a genetic disease, severe combined immune deficiency, (SCID). Thus, David Vetter spent his life protected, but isolated, in a sterile plastic “bubble.” The hope was that the bone marrow from his sister (four years older) would stimulate the growth of his immune system. The marrow was treated to cleanse it of germs, and was transferred in a fluid through a vein into David's bloodstream. Sadly an undetected Epstein Barr virus remained in it despite the treatment. By New Year's Day, he had a temperature of 99.5°F, indicating the onset of illness. Less than two months later, he died of Burkitt's lymphoma
1996 - Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India.
2000 - Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a gold medal in disc throw in the World Junior Athletic championship in Santiago.
2013 - The Parliament of Canada confers Honorary Canadian citizenship on women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai
Born....
1931 - Shammi Kapoor, actor.
1933 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist and inventor who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives. An explosives expert like his father, in 1866 he invented a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin he called dynamite, and later, smokeless gunpowder and (1875) gelignite. He helped to create an industrial empire manufacturing many of his other inventions. Nobel amassed a huge fortune, much of which he left in a fund to endow the annual prizes that bear his name. First awarded in 1901, these prizes were for achievements in the areas of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. The sixth prize, for economics, was instituted in his honour in 1969.
1937 - Farooq Abdullah, politician.
1944 - Kulbhushan Kharbanda, actor.
1967 - Ashwini Nachappa, athlete.
You may have known....
After democracy was restored in 1977, the opposition Congress faction formed a coalition of parties called the Janata Party, which inflicted the Congress' first electoral defeat.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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