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On this day, 10 Dec....
1478 - First dated printed arithmetic book. The anonymous Arte dell'Abbaco (“The Art of the Abacus”), printed in Treviso, Italy had this publication date.
1801- Oxyhydrogen blow-pipe. Robert Hare presented to the Chemical Society of Philadelphia his paper, Memoir of the Supply and Application of the Blow-Pipe. It presented the twenty-year-old scientist's discovery relating to the intense production of heat with his oxyhydrogen blow-pipe, progenitor of the welding torch.
1845 - Civil engineer Robert Thompson patented pneumatic tyres in London.
1868 - Gas-lit traffic lights were first placed in operation at the corner of Bridge Street and New Palace Yard, London, atop a 22-ft high cast-iron pillar.
1901 - Nobel Prizes. At the first Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, the king of Sweden distributed the Nobel Prizes, in accordance with the will of inventor Alfred Nobel. The day was the anniversary of Nobel's death.
1932 - The Indian Military Academy (IMA) was formally inaugurated by Field Marshal Sir Philip W Chetwode, Bt, GOB, KCMG, GCSI, DSO and was christened as "The Pioneer ". The crowning event was delivered in the hall, now named after him, and in the address to the trainees, he enunciated the principle: 'the safety, honour, and welfare of your country comes first, always and ever time', which was to guide the future officers of the Indian Army . A passage from this address has come to acquire immortality and has been adopted as the credo of the Academy.
1952 - World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India.
1954 - Land speed record. To determine if a pilot could eject from an airplane at supersonic speed and live, Lt. Col. John Paul Stapp, a flight surgeon, rode a rocket sled to 632 mph. The sled's rocket motors generated 40,000 lbs. of thrust and he reached a speed of 632 mph in five seconds. At the end of the ride Stapp was stopped in 1.25 seconds which subjected him to 40 Gs. It was the equivalent of hitting a brick wall in a car travelling at 120 mph. (Data from 29 increasingly harsh rocket-sled rides during the 1950s proved invaluable in the design of improved helmets, arm and leg restraints, better aircraft seats, and stronger safety harnesses).
1990 - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh, 140 die.
1992 - The Central Government bans RSS, VHP, ISS, Bajrang Dal and Jamait-e-Islami.
Born....
1878 - Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.
1960 - Rati Agnihotri, actor.
1965 - Jayaram, actor.
1982 - Shilpa Anand, film and television actor.
RIP....
1896 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish chemist and inventor who invented dynamite and other more powerful explosives. Nobel amassed a huge fortune, much of which he left in a fund to endow the annual prizes that bear his name.
Titbits....
1915 - 1,000,000th model T Ford assembled.
2014 - James Watson, one of three scientists to co-discover DNA structure, has auctioned off the 1962 Nobel Prize medal he received for the achievement; Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8 million for the medal but then returned it to Watson.
You may have known....
Railway coverage (km): India - 63,794; China- 86,000.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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