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On this day, May.29……..

1431 – Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France.

1821 – A fire hose of cotton web lined with rubber was patented by James Boyd of Boston.

1826 – – Udant Martand, first Hindi newspaper was published in Calcutta.

1848 – An early U.S. patent for an ice cream freezer was issued to William G. Young of Baltimore.

1856 – The first milk quality law in the U.S. was signed by the Governor of Massachusetts prohibiting adulteration of milk.

1868 – US started Memorial Day or Decoration Day for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces. It is national holiday. After 1970, the holiday is observed on the last Monday of May. It marks the unofficial start of the summer vacation season, while Labour Day (first Monday in September) marks its end.

1953 – A beekeeper from New Zealand, Edmund Hillary, and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to stand on the summit of the world’s highest peak, Mt Everest (pic credit-Conde Nast Traveller, India)

1959 – The first experimental hovercraft made its first trip. The invention was considered initially only for military use, but was released for civilian use in 1959.

1971 – Mars probe: The U.S. Mars space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. It also sent the first close-up pictures of the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos.

1987 – Goa becomes the 25th state of India.

1998 – Pakistan conducts an underground test. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.

1999 – India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.

2015 – Concerns over security in the Asia-Pacific region are raised after a U.S. surveillance flight identifies artillery on one of the man-made islands under development by China in the South China Sea.

2019 – Narendra Modi sworn in for a second term as Indian Prime Minister.

2019 – Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization.
Born….

1950 – Paresh Rawal, film actor, producer and politician (image credit-Filmfare.com)

1970 – Ness Wadia, businessperson.

RIP….

1912 – Wilbur Wright, American inventor and aviator, who with his brother Orville, invented the first powered airplane, Flyer, capable of sustained, controlled flight

2013 – Rituparno Ghosh, film director. (“Rituparno’s comparison is only Rituparno. Bengal has lost a golden man of golden era” – Mamata Banerjee’s obituary).

You may have known….

In 1991 a Swedish couple named their son ‘BRFXXCCXXMNPCCCCLLLMMNPPOKVCLMNCKSSQLBB11116’. They said it was pronounced “ALBIN”.

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