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By NewsOnRadar Bureau Last updated Jul 16, 2024

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On this day, Sept. 11…

1822 – It was announced by the College of Cardinals that henceforth “the printing and publication of works treating of the motion of the earth and the stability of the sun, in accordance with the opinion of modern astronomers, is permitted.” The Catholic Church finally officially accepted the Copernican principle that on 22 Jun 1633 Italian scientist Galileo had been imprisoned for championing. It was not until 1835 that the Vatican removed Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems from its list of banned books. Finally, 31 Oct 1992, the Catholic Church admitted that Galileo had been correct.

1841 – The first U.S. patent for collapsible metal tubes was issued to an artist, John Rand. His purpose was as a “mode of preserving paints, and other fluids. The idea was later reinvented in 1892 for the commercial packaging of toothhpaste. (The first collapsible polythene tubes were produced in the U.S. for skin-tanning lotion in 1953).

1875 – 1st newspaper cartoon strip. (Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these have been published in newspapers and magazines. With the development of the internet, they began to appear online as web comics).

1906 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term “Satyagraha” to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

1908 – In the U.S., Orville Wright established a new flight record of 70 min aloft.

1928 – 1st TV drama; Queen’s Messenger was telecast. (Three still cameras were used to film the program. Two cameras shot the faces of the actors. The third was used to show props and other images. For close-ups on hands, they used the hands of two “assistant actors” in front of the third camera.

1946 – The first mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation took place between Houston, Texas and St. Louis, Missouri.

1948 – Indian Government troops enter in the Hyderabad State. (At the time of Independence in 1947, the princely states of India, who in principle had self-government within their own territories, were subject to subsidiary alliances with the British, giving them control of their external relations. In the Indian Independence Act 1947 the British abandoned all such alliances, leaving the states with the option of opting for full independence. However, by 1948 almost all had acceded to either India or Pakistan. One major exception was that of the wealthiest and most powerful principality, Hyderabad, where the Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII, chose independence and hoped to maintain this with an irregular army recruited from the Muslim aristocracy, known as the Razakars. The Nizam was also beset by the Telangana uprising, which he was unable to subjugate. Operation Polo, the code name of the Hyderabad ‘Police Action’ was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the State of Hyderabad and overthrew its Nizam, annexing the state into the Indian Union).

1951 – Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It took 16 hours & 19 minutes.

1952 – The first artificial aortic valve was successfully fitted in the heart of a 30-yr-old patient. The valve was made of Flexiglas and contained a 3/4″ diam. float that rose and slipped into one of three sockets in the side of the valve sleeve on the heart’s upbeat, when blood was forced into the aorta.

1956 – The PM announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash.