Motto for Today: ‘Best way to avoid disappointment is to minimize expectations.’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History! 

On this day, Oct.30……..

1502 – Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.

1894 – Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, N.Y. received the first U.S. patent for a time clock. The time clock was used to record the time employees started and ended work. Known as the Rochester, the machine was manufactured by the Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company.

1925 – The first television transmission was seen in London, England. John Baird built the transmitter in his attic from a tea chest, cardboard scanning discs, an empty biscuit box, old electric motors, darning needles, motorcycle lamp lenses, piano wire, glue, string, and sealing wax.

1938 – A radio broadcast of H. G. Wells “The War of the Worlds”, narrated by Orson Welles, allegedly causes a mass panic.

1958 – The first coronary angiogram was performed, unintentionally, by Dr. F. Mason Sones, Jr, a pediatric cardiologist. This diagnostic x-ray procedure uses dye injected to visualize blockages of the small nutrient arteries of the heart. Earlier studies on dogs showed use of the dye in coronary arteries caused heart fibrillation, so it was never tried on humans. While intending to dye a patient’s diseased vessels by injecting dye only near their openings, on this occasion, the catheter insertion had inadvertently strayed into the patient’s coronary artery, and about 30 cc of the dye went into the artery. Fortunately, expected heart fibrillation (requiring the opening of the patient’s chest to treat) did not occur. Hence the dye could in fact be used safely, especially if in lower amounts.

1986 – The first fibre-optic cable across the English Channel began service.

1992 – India and China decide to continue peace measures and open more points for border trade.

2000 – The 160-page CBI’s report on cricket match-fixing names Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Ajay Sharma, Manoj Prabhakar and former physiotherapist Dr. Ali Irani for their deep-rooted nexus with betting syndicates. It virtually gives a clean chit to Kapil Dev.

2019 – Kashmir officially loses their autonomous status, their flag and their constitution, as India brings it under federal control.

Born….

1909 – Homi Jehangir Bhabha, an Indian physicist who is regarded as the father of the Indian nuclear power program. He studied mechanical engineering at Cambridge University, and by 1933 held a PhD in nuclear physics. Bhabha foresaw the need for high quality facilities in India to conduct research on nuclear power. With support from industrialist Dorabji Jamshedji Tata, he established the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay (1945) for large scale research in physics, chemistry, electronics and mathematics. He envisioned nuclear power from thorium instead of uranium reserves. (He died in the plane crash of Air India 101 near Mont Blanc in the Alps).

1952 – Dalip Tahil, actor.

1958 – Abhijeet Bhattacharya, singer.

RIP….

1883 – Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer.

You may have known….

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}