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On this day, May.19…….

1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.

1885 – 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Massachusetts).

1956 – The Indian govt bans six US and two British films for presenting a ‘disparaging’ impression of life in Africa, including ‘African Queen’ and ‘Mogambo’.

1961 – At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.

1971 – Indian Navy’s first submarine station started at ‘Veer Bahu’ in Visakhapatanam.

1987 – A patent for “keeping a head alive” was issued to Chet Fleming. A cabinet provides physical and biochemical support for an animal’s head severed from its body. Oxygenated blood and nutrients are circulated by means of tubes connected to arteries and veins that emerge from the neck. A series of processing components removes carbon dioxide and add oxygen to the blood. If desired, waste products and other metabolites may be removed from the blood, and nutrients, therapeutic or experimental drugs, anti-coagulants, and other substances may be added to the blood. After being thoroughly tested on research animals, the patent suggests it might also be used on humans suffering from various terminal illnesses.

1993 – Government decides to merge Vayudut with Indian Airlines.

2000 – A `civil coup’ in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency.

2012 – Robert Spitzer, a retired American psychiatrist, claims his 2001 study was ‘fatally flawed’; the study falsely supported the myth that gay people could be ‘cured’.

2019 – Sprinter Dutee Chand comes out as India’s first openly gay professional athlete.
2020 – Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 when the world was in lockdown, in study published in “Nature Climate Change”.

2021 – BBC investigation finds their 1995 Princess Dianna interview was secured through ‘deceitful behaviour’ by journalist Martin Bashir.
Born….

1910 – Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.

1913 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India.

1934 – Ruskin Bond, writer.

1938 – Girish Karnad, actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright.

RIP….

1904 – Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.

1935 – Thomas Edward (T.E.) Lawrence was a British archaeological scholar, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia”. He became best known as a military strategist, and author for his legendary war activities in the Middle East during WW I, and for his account of those activities in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926). He died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash near his home in Dorset.

1980 – General T. N. Raina, former Chief of Indian Army.

2008 – Vijay Tendulkar, playwright and screenwriter.

You may have known….

The blob of toothpaste that sits on a toothbrush is called a nurdle.             

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