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On this day, Sept.12…

1624 – 1st submarine tested on the Thames, London. (The concept of underwater combat has roots deep in antiquity. There are images of men using hollow sticks to breathe underwater for hunting at the temples at Thebes, but the first known military use occurred during the siege of Syracuse (415 – 413 BC), where divers cleared obstructions).

1897 – Battle of Saragarhi: Thousands of Orakzai and Afridi tribesmen overwhelm and kill at great cost to themselves 21 Sikh Soldiers led by Havildar Ishar Singh at Tirah, North-West Frontier Province, British India.
1910 – World’s 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed in Los Angeles.

1915 – A prisoner developed a rash associated with the disease pellegra. He was part of a study designed by Dr. Joseph Goldberger to provide a protein-deficient diet for several months to 12 volunteer inmates of the state prison at Jackson, Mississippi. For Goldberger, it meant proof that the cause of the deadly disease pellegra was a result of poor diet, and that it was not contagious. For the inmates, it earned a pardon.

1940 – Five schoolboys exploring the Grotte de Lascaux, France, discovered an astonishing display of prehistoric art depicting animals in a variety of styles, which dated back to 15,000 BC.

1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrated his invention of a miniaturized electronic circuit to his supervisor at Texas Instruments, now recognized as the first integrated circuit to be built and operated.

1959 – Luna 2 was launched, one of a series of unmanned Soviet lunar probes, and 36 hours later on 14 Sep 1959 would become the first spacecraft to strike the Moon. It was followed by Luna 3, launched the following month, on 4 Oct 1959, which made the first circumnavigation of the Moon and returned the first photographs of its far side. (Earlier, the Luna 1 mission had blasted off 2 Jan 1959. That spacecraft failed to impact the Moon as intended, due to a guidance system failure, but it became the first manmade object in solar orbit).

1962 – President John F. Kennedy delivered perhaps the most famous space speech ever given. Speaking at the stadium of Rice University, the text of his speech included these memorable lines, “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency”.

1970 – 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport.

1992 – Mark Lee and Jan David became the first married couple to form part of the crew of space Shuttle Endeavour. The crew also included Mae Jemison as the 1st African American woman to go into space.

2013 – NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe makes history by advancing past the solar system – becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space.

2018 – Oldest known human drawing discovered, a hashtag-like abstract drawing with red ochre, 73,000 years old, in Blombos Cave, South Africa published in “Nature”.