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On this day, Jan.18……
1896 – The X-ray machine was first demonstrated.
1911 – The first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Lt. Eugene B. Ely brought his 50-hp Curtiss pusher biplane in for a safe landing on a 119-ft wooden platform attached to the deck of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania. (The previous year, on 14 Nov 1910 he first took a take-off from a ship).
1919 – WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France. One of the major decisions was the creation of the League of Nations.
1950 – India is declared a secular republic. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said he was determined to abolish casteism and industrialize the nation. Constitution makes Hindi official national language, English to continue for 15 years; 14 major state languages are recognized. India also moved a motion for no war treaty between India and Pakistan to improve the relations with neighboring countries.
1962 – US begins spraying foliage pesticide in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas.
1968 – The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherein the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive program for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, formulating a program for the coordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule along with Hindi, adopting of a tri-lingual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed.
1995 – The domain of yahoo.com was created.
2014 – A new world record is achieved by the United Kingdom’s Lewis Clarke of Bristol; the 16-year-old becomes the youngest person to trek to the South Pole.
2015 – South African batsman AB de Villiers makes fastest century in ODI cricket history from 31 balls during an innings of 149 against the West Indies in Johannesburg.
Born….
1813 – Joseph Farwell Glidden, American inventor who was an Illinois farmer when he developed the design of the first commercial barbed wire.
1972 – Vinod Ganpat Kambli, cricketer.
RIP….
1936 – Rudyard Kipling, famous English writer and author. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels children’s stories some of these were “The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories” and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
1947 – Kundanlal Saigal, famous film star and unique singer.
1996 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama (NTR) Rao, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
2003 – Harivanshrai Bachchan, poet. His fame is more for his work ‘Madhushala’.
Titbits….
1644 – 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston.
You may have known….
Pears are not served at Chinese weddings as the word peer sounds the same as ‘separation’ in Chinese.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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