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On this day, Jan.29…….
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. 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.
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.
1998 – For the first time, a top tobacco company executive acknowledged the health risk of tobacco products under oath to US Congress.
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.
2019 – Tehran: Iran bans dog walking in public, and driving with dogs.
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.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}