Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to popular opinion.
On this day, 02 Jan....
1754 - Robert Clive again attacked and annexed Calcutta from Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah. (Calcutta was recaptured by Siraj-ud-Daulah in June 1756. Reportedly, they placed 146 British prisoners into a room measuring 18 by 15 feet, called the 'Black Hole', with only 23 surviving the night).
1757 - After the Battle of Plassey, Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal.
1839 - French pioneering photographer Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the moon. Unfortunately it was lost when on 8 Mar 1839, a fire burned his laboratory, together with his records and early experiment materials.
1879 - 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG.
1936 - The first electron tube to enable night vision was described, in St Louis, US.
1944 - 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).
1947 - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengal.
1964 - Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan.
1994 - Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.
2012 - While conducting military exercises in the Persian Gulf, Iran successfully test-fires two long-range missiles.
2018 - WHO reveals it will classify gaming addiction as mental health condition in its next Classification of Diseases.
Born....
1932 - Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, famous Ragi and politician.
1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician.
1959 - Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83).
1937 - Manohar Joshi, politician.
You may have known....
Tigers have been known to successfully imitate the call of other animals to lure their prey closer.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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