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On this day, May.25…….

1852 – Elisha Graves Otis was issued a U.S. patent for a “Railroad-Car Truck and Brake”. Otis is well-known for his invention of the safety elevator in the same year, which used automatic braking devices to arrest the fall of an elevator car if its supporting cable broke.

1933 – All young Hindus aged between 12 and 25 years were forced to carry identity cards to prevent spread of terrorism.

1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Michigan, US (pic credit-Britannica)

1940 – In one of the most famous animal tests in medical history, eight mice were inoculated with a lethal dose of streptococci and then four of them were injected with penicillin. Next day the four mice given streptococci alone were dead, the four with penicillin were healthy.

1961 – The formal announcement of an American lunar landing was made by President John F. Kennedy speaking to the Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space programme in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”

1965 – Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan over the Kashmir dispute.

2013 – Maoists kill 32 Congressmen in Chhattisgarh.

2013 – An Apple I computer is sold for US $617,000 at auction.

2017 – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004.

Born….

1886 – Rash Behari Bose, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader. He was the key organizer of the Ghadar Movement and Indian National Army .

1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, born in Kiev, Ukraine.

1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Indian writer, poet and revolutionary.

1936 – Rusi Framroz Surti, cricketer (Indian slow lefty, hat-trick 1969).

1954 – Murali, Indian National Award-winning actor.

1972 – Karan Johar, film director.

1983 – Kunal Khemu, actor.

RIP….

1606 – Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir.

2005 – Sunil Dutt, actor & politician (image credit- Munna Bhai MBBS productions)

2005 – Ismail Merchant, film director.

Titbits….

1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

You may have known….

Between the 1930s and 1950s X Rays were used to measure shoe size.

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