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By NewsOnRadar Bureau Last updated Jul 16, 2024

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On this day, Jan.06…….

1714 – An idea for a possible typewriter predecessor was patented by Englishman Henry Mill, but he never succeeded in perfecting his invention and it died with him. Nothing more than the patent record remains known about the machine.

1818 – Dominion of Holkar in India are annexed with Rajput states and come under the British protection.

1838 – Samuel Morse, with his partner, Alfred Vail, gave the first public demonstration of their new invention electric telegraphic system in `New Jersey, US.

1842 – 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before reaching India. (The Massacre of Elphinstone’s army took place during the First Anglo-Afghan War. Following an uprising in Kabul, Major General Sir William Elphinstone negotiated an agreement with Wazir Akbar Khan, one of the sons of the Afghan Emir Dost Mohammad Barakzai, by which his army was to withdraw to the British garrison at Jalalabad, more than 90 miles away. As the army and its numerous dependents and camp-followers began its march, it came under attack from Afghan tribesmen. Many of the column died of exposure, frostbite or starvation or were killed during the fighting).

1851 – The rotation of the Earth was proved experimentally by Leon Foucault. After weeks of work, he recorded in his journal that he made this discovery at 2:00 am working with a pendulum in the cellar of the house he shared with his mother. Using a steel wire 2-m long with a 5-kg brass bob, he had made a pendulum suspended in a way that freely permitted it, he found that its plane of oscillation slowly rotated relative to the ground. He demonstrated his discovery on 31 Mar 1851 for Napoleon.

1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school.

1929 – Sheffield Farms of New York began using Sealcone wax paper cartons instead of glass bottles for milk delivery.

1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongst India’s poorest and diseased people.

1930 – 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed.

1942 – 1st around world flight, Pan Am “Pacific Clipper”.

1947 – All India Congress Committee accepted the division of country.

1954 – A New York Times article on food included the news that a frozen turkey dinner from C.A. Swanson & Sons of Omaha was soon to be available in the newspaper’s home area for about $1. This was the first frozen meal of the “TV Dinner” type that was successfully sold across the U.S. An aluminium foil tray with a foil overwrap was filled with white and dark turkey slices, cornbread sage dressing and gravy, plus two separate segments contained green peas and mashed sweet potatoes with butter. Each 12-oz dinner needed only about 25 minutes in a hot oven to be ready to eat from the disposable foil tray (no plate needed). Six months later, having had great response to the turkey meal, Swanson introduced a “TV Fried Chicken Dinner,” reported in the Times on 10 Jun 1954. “TV Dinner” was the Swanson brand.

1971 – The first adult heart transplant in the U.S. was performed at the Stanford Medical Centre, Stanford, Calif., by Dr. Norman Shumway. The 54-year-old patient, whose heart had been damaged by a virus infection, survived for 15 days after the surgery.

1993 – India and Bhutan sign agreement on the giant Sankosh hydro-electric project.