On this day - 15 Jan 2024 - Raj Kadyan

 TODAY ON THE OCCASION OF ARMY DAY, WE SALUTE THOSE BRAVE SOLDIERS WHO KEEP ALL OF US SAFE.

No point telling people your dreams. Show them.

On this day, 15 Jan....

1656 - Chhatrapati Shivaji conquered Javali state.

1759 - The British Museum, in Bloomsbury, London, the world's oldest public national museum, opened to the public.    

1797 - The top hat was first worn in England by James Heatherington, a Strand haberdasher in London. An issue of the Times of that period records that when he left his shop with his extraordinary headwear, a crowd of onlookers assembled, which degenerated into a shoving match. Consequently, Heatherington was summoned to appear in court before the Lord Mayor and fined £50 for going about in a manner "calculated to frighten timid people." Within a month, he was overwhelmed with orders for the new top hats. 

1861 - The safety elevator was patented as a “Hoisting Apparatus” by the American inventor, Elisha G. Otis, New York. His invention was designed to arrest a fall in case of the lifting rope breaking.

1863 - Woodpulp paper was first used in the U.S. for a printed newspaper by the Boston Morning Herald.

1889 - The idea of a "Rotary Dining Table" was issued a U.S. patent to a Black American inventor, Daniel Johnson of Kansas City.  

1907 - Gold dental inlays were first described in the U.S. by H. William Taggart, a Chicago dentist.   

1934 - 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal; 10,700 die.

1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed.

1948 - Gandhiji hails Indian Cabinet's decision to release Pakistan dues of Rs. 550 million. Fast continues for establishment of communal peace.

1949 - Cariappa took over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander-in-Chief of India. It is celebrated as an Army Day.

1955 - The first U.S. house to be both solar-heated and radiation-cooled started its system. 

1958 - Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.

1996 - Restoration of the original name of the city as "Mumbai" for Bombay. 

1996 - Victoria Terminus (VT) station in Mumbai renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus by the Centre.

2009 - U.S. Airways plane ditches in the Hudson River - all 155 passengers survive.

2019 - Beginning of humanity's largest gathering, the Kumbh Mela Hindu festival with 15 million people bathing at the joining of Ganges and Yamuna rivers, India. 120 million expected over next 49 days.

2019 - Plastic will outweigh fish in the world's oceans by 2050 according to report by the World Economic Forum.

Born....

1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor.

1947 - Pritish Nandi, journalist.

1956 - Mayawati, politician.

1964 - Bhanupriya, actor.

1982 - Neil Mukesh, actor.

 Titbits....

1831 - 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston.

You may have known....  

The Nazis plotted to kill Winston Churchill with an exploding chocolate bar.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

Raj Kadyan

On this Day 04 Jan - Raj Kadyan

 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

On this day 03 Jan - Raj Kadyan

 Genius is the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

 On this day, 03 Jan....

1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tested a flying machine.

 

 1871 - Oleomargarine was patented by Henry Bradley in Binghamton, NY. A "compound for culinary use" called margarine. 

1888 - The first wax drinking straw and the spiral winding tube-making process was patented by Marvin C. Stone in Washington, DC. Stone was already a manufacturer of paper cigarette holders.  

1943 - 1st missing persons telecast (New York City).

1947 - Gandhiji toured the riot-affected areas in Bihar from January 3 to January 29.

1957 - The world's first electric watch was introduced in Lancaster, PA by the Hamilton Watch Company. Research began in 1946, but it was to take more than ten years to develop a viable watch. On this day, Hamilton held a press conference. The idea of a watch which never needed winding was very exciting to 1950's consumers, who were captivated by progress and modernity. The Hamilton Electric was an instant hit.

1958 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland.

1985 - Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings.

1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister in 20th century.

2000 - A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, accuses Pakistan for the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. (The crisis ended on Dec. 31 last with the Vajpayee Government agreeing to free three terrorists in exchange for the passengers).

2014 - According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the net worth of the 300 richest people in the world collectively increased by $524 billion; the group has an aggregate net worth of $3.7 trillion.

2018 - Security expert reveal two security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre which affect most microprocessors.

2019 - Chinese Chang'e-4 spacecraft becomes the first ever to touch down on the far side of the Moon.

2022 - Apple becomes the first US company to be worth $3 trillion in value, after tripling its price in under four years.

2023 - Cristiano Ronaldo joins Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr for the “biggest salary ever in football”, leaving Manchester United after criticizing it publicly.

Born....

1917 Kartarsingh Duggal, famous Punjabi story-writer and novelist

1938 - Jaswant Singh, politician.

 1941 - Sanjay Khan, actor.

1966 - Chetan Jagatram Manohar Sharma, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987).

1979 - Gul Panag, actor.

Tidbits....

2013 - Famous French actor  Gerard Depardieu is granted citizenship by Russian President, Vladimir Putin; Depardieu renounced his French citizenship due to the country's high taxes.

You may have known....  

Drunk wasps are more likely to sting.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

Raj Kadyan

On this day, 02 Jan - Raj Kadyan

 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

Wishing You Good Health and Happiness on the Eve of New Year 2024

Wishing You Good Health and Happiness on the Eve of New Year 2024

May all Your Aspirations and Dreams find Fulfilment. 

If you don’t build your own dreams, someone else will hire you to build theirs.

On this day, 31 Dec....

1600 - East India Company chartered. (Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The company also ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India).

 1861 - 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam, a world record.

1935 - A patent was issued for the game of Monopoly assigned to Parker Brothers. 

1938 - The “drunkometer,” the first breath test for car drivers was officially introduced in Indianapolis. It was the first successful machine for testing human blood alcohol content by breath analysis.

 1966 - Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India v WI Calcutta, 2-92.

1984 - Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi.

1993 - The last research samples of the smallpox virus were scheduled to be destroyed. Smallpox was the world's most dreaded plagues until 1977, when it was declared eradicated. However, some scientists who wanted to continue research on the virus stopped the destruction plan. The remaining frozen samples are in Moscow, Russia, and the Cents for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, U.S.

1996 - Gold import policy liberalised in India.

2008 - One leap second is added to the end of the year.

2017 - Movie star Rajinikanth announces he is entering politics.

2020 - WHO grants the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine emergency authorization, paving the way for worldwide distribution.

 

Born....

1902 - Dr. Raghuvir, dictionary creator, having knowledge of Vedic Sanskrit, Tebiti, Chinese and Mongolian.

1943 - Ben Kingsley, English actor (Film Gandhi).

 1956 - Prabhu Ganesan, film producer (Chennai).

1965 - Sivaramakrishan Laxman, right-hand batsman and leg break bowler.

RIP....

 1706 - Francois Martin, founder of Pondichery.

You may have known....  

Male lighting bugs flash about every 5 seconds while females flash about every 2 seconds.

Good morning.  Have a nice day.

Raj Kadyan