Motto for Today: ‘The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!  

On this day, Sept. 30 ….

1841 – A machine “for sticking pins into paper” was patented by Samuel Slocum of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He had previously invented (1838), but not patented, a machine to manufacture pins with a solid head. He formed a company to make what became known as “Poughkeepsie pins” (1839). One man tending two such machines could produce 100,000 pins in 11 hours. Slocum’s pin was the first with a solid head to be made in the U.S., though John Ireland Howe had made the first practical pin-making machine.

1846 – Dentist Dr. William Morton used an experimental anesthetic, ether, for the first time on one of his patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for tooth extraction.

1862 – U.S. patent was issued for a revolving turret for battleships to the inventor, Theodore Ruggles Timby. When Ericsson built the first turret battleship in the world, the Monitor, he added a turret based on Timby’s design to the ship.

1882 – The world’s first hydroelectric power plant in the U.S. was opened on the Fox River, in Appleton, Wisconsin.

1906 – The world’s first international balloon race began. It was won by a coal-gas balloon, the ‘United States’.

1907 – Motor car speed traps were protested in a letter to The Times, London. Lord Montagu wrote to challenge anti-motorist complaints as opposing progress. To combat dust cloud nuisance from traffic, he called for more suitable roads: “reserved only for motorists and rubber-tired non-animal traffic – at least between large centres of population.” About speed traps, he continued, “By all means let police-traps be placed where there is any reason to think danger may exist, but … At present, the police neglect their other duties and look upon trapping as a regular sport” producing income to local government from the £5 or £10 fines for speeds of 20 or 30 mph.

1963 – The USSR openly lauded Indian view on Kashmir issue. This was against Pakistan’s motives.

1981 – Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International.

1982 – H. Ross Perot and Jay Colburn completed the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter, the Spirit of Texas. Their journey began 29 days, 3 hours, and 8 minutes earlier on September 1.

1993 – 6.4 earthquake at Latur, Maharashtra, 28,000 killed.

1996 – Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government’s decision to rename Madras as Chennai.

2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Born….

1881 – Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India.

1908 – Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist.

1922 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, film director.

1972 – Shaan, singer.

RIP….

1985 – Charles Francis Richter, an American seismologist who devised the Richter Scale that measures earthquake magnitudes, which he developed with his colleague, Beno Gutenberg, in

You may have known….
Calculus and Trigonometry originated in India.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

 

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