The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.
On this day, 04 Jan....
1863 - Four-wheeled roller skates were patented by James Plimpton of New York.
1885 – Dr. William West Grant performed what is believed (sources disagree) to be the first successful appendectomy in the U.S.
1887 - Thomas Stevens, US, is 1st man to bicycle around the world.
1904 - Thomas Edison's movie crew filmed the electrocution of an elephant. Topsy was being destroyed by its owners after she killed three men in as many years. The event was a public spectacle to a paying audience of 1500 people at Coney Island, where the elephant had been kept on show. Edison was the consultant chosen to arrange the electrocution death after cyanide-laced carrots had failed.
1912 - The closest approach to earth by the moon was 221,441 miles apart centre to centre.
1932 - British Viceroy of India Lord Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru.
1948 - Burma achieved its independence from Great Britain. (In 1989, Burma changed its name to Myanmar to reflect the multi-ethnic composition of the country).
1958 - The Russian Sputnik I satellite, the first man-made object to orbit the earth, fell back into the atmosphere and disintegrated, after 92 days in space. The Sputnik (meaning “companion” or “fellow traveller”) circled the earth every 95 minutes at almost 20,000 miles per hour, 500 miles above the Earth. The 184-lb satellite had transmitted a radio signal picked up around the world, and instrumentation for temperature measurement.
1962 - The first fully automated subway train began revenue service with passengers in New York City.
1966 - Indo-Pak Summit, the peace talk between Pakistan and Indian leaders, started at Tashkent. The prominent personalities were Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gen. Ayub Khan.
1967 - Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. began delivery of the MIG aircraft.
1972 - Pakistan proposed to talk after the (1971) war.
2004 - Spirit, a robot rover landed on Mars to analyze the planet's rocks, looking for evidence of water. It has taken the only photo of Earth from another planet. Surviving dust storms, it far outlasted its expected useful life. (A twin robot rover, Opportunity, landed three weeks after Spirit on the other side of the planet).
2010 - The Burj Khalifa, world's tallest building at 829.8 m (2,722 ft), officially opens in Dubai.
Born....
1809 - Louis Braille, French educator who developed a tactile form of printing and writing, known as braille.
1925 - Pradeep Kumar, actor.
1931 - Nirupa Roy, actor.
1957 - Gurdas Mann, singer.
1965 - Aditya Pancholi, actor.
RIP....
1994 - Rahul Dev Burman, music director better known as 'Pancham Da'.
You may have known....
Even though there is evidence of use of matches in China in the year 1270, the first modern match was only invented in 1826 by accident by a chemist named John Walker.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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