NOTE: DUE TO AN OVERSIGHT, 30 JANUARY EVENTS WERE REPORTED ON 29TH. TODAY, EVENTS OF 29TH ARE INCLUDED.
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On this day, 29 Jan....
1856 - Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria.
1886 - The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented. A three-wheeler vehicle with a Benz-designed one-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine. This patent is recognised as the world's first patent—regarded as the birth certificate—for a practical internal combustion engine powered automobile.
1896 - Émil H. Grubbe, a Chicago researcher, became the first known to administer x-ray radiation treatment for the recurrent breast cancer of a fifty-five-year-old woman. (X-rays had been discovered the previous year in Germany).
1901 - The prolific black American inventor, Granville T. Woods, received one of his patents related to the operation of an electric railway. It applied to the kind of electric trains which take their power from conductors in the road-bed.
1924 - The first U.S. patent for an ice cream cone rolling machine was issued to Carl R. Taylor of Ohio, in which it was described as a “machine for forming thin, freshly baked wafers while still hot into cone shaped containers” for ice-cream.
1960 - An artificial kidney that operates without human monitoring was announced.
1987 - "Physician’s Weekly" announced that the smile on the face of Leonardo DeVinci's Mona Lisa was caused by a... "facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear."
1992 - India and Israel decide to establish full diplomatic relations.
1993 - A daughter received lung material from both her mother and father to treat the effects of cystic fibrosis. This operation, performed in Los Angeles by Dr. Starnes at USC University Hospital, was the first in the world double-lobar living related transplant.
1998 - For the first time, a top tobacco company executive acknowledged the health risk of tobacco products under oath to US Congress. This testimony by Steven Goldstone, RJR Nabisco chairman and CEO, came at a hearing where industry leaders pushed Congress to enact a $368.5 billion deal giving them partial immunity from future lawsuits. As recently as 1994, seven tobacco industry executives had stood before the House Commerce Committee and sworn nicotine is not addictive.
1999 - Paris prosecutors announced the end of the investigation into the accident that killed Britain's Princess Diana.
2013 - For the first time since launching Google Maps, Google extends its data coverage of North Korea, filling in previously blank areas on most of the country with detailed maps that identify landmarks.
2014 - Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono.
2019 - Norwegian government proposes building a floating road tunnel as part of a new roadway between Kristiansand and Trondheim.
Born....
1896 - Swami Paranabananda Brahamachari, founder of `Bharat Sevashram Sangha'.
RIP....
1597 - Pratap Singh, Maharana of Mewar.
1983 - Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party.
You may have known....
Yo-Yos date back to 44 BC.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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