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On this day, 28 Dec....
1828 -- 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed.
1849 - Discovery of dry-cleaning. It is said that dry-cleaning was accidentally discovered when M. Jolly-Bellin, a tailor, upset a lamp containing turpentine oil on his tablecloth and noticed it had a cleaning effect. He opened the very first dry cleaning shop called "Teinturerie Jolly Bellin" on rue Saint Martin in Paris in 1825. Another story says that by accident the owner of a textile dye works in 1848 found that the liquid from an oil lamp could dissolve fat. While different stories reportedly tell of its origin, one thing in common is that fabric was accidentally saturated with a volatile liquid and, by surprise, the material appeared clean after it dried. One such tale tells about a French sailor who accidentally fell into a vat of turpentine and when his soiled uniform dried, it was clean.
1869 - William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, was issued the first U.S. patent for chewing gum, made of "the combination of rubber with other articles adapted to the formation of an acceptable chewing gum", but he never commercially produced gum. That was done by Thomas Adams of Staten Island, N.Y., who knew that chicle could be chewed. His first experiments to vulcanise chicle for use as a rubber substitute were unsuccessful until he boiled a small batch of chicle in his kitchen and created the first chicle-based chewing gum. Testing sales at a local store, he found people liked his gum. In 1871, Adams patented a gum-producing machine so he could increase production.
1886 - The first U.S. patent for a commercially successful dishwasher was issued to Josephine Garis Cochrane.
1895 - The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière presented their motion-picture films in their first public performance, at the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris.
1896 - In the Indian National Congress, Vande Mataram was first sung in Calcutta.
1981 - The first American “test tube” baby conceived through "in vitro" fertilization was born on this morning, a 5-lb 12-oz girl, at Norfolk General Hospital. The term “in vitro” is Latin for “in glass,” because conception takes place in a laboratory dish.
1926 - Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service.
1931 - The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and "untouchable" caste members.
1983 - Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's 29.
Born....
1932 - Dhirubhai Ambani, businessman.
1937 - Ratan Tata, industrialist.
1940 - Ak Antony, politician.
1951 - Sajid Khan, actor.
1952 Arun Jaitley, Politician; Minister of Finance.
RIP....
1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer who specialised in metal structures, known especially for the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1972 - C. Rajagopalachari, the only Indian Governor General.
1977 - Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur.
You may have known....
Multiple Rocket Launcher System (MRLS):
India - 292;
China - 1,770.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
