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On this day, Mar.28……

1556 – Origin of Fasli Era in India. It was devised devised by the Mughal emperor Akbar for land revenue purposes in northern India, for which the Muslim lunar calendar was inconvenient.

1797 – Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire received a patent for a washing machine. (It is not possible to know exactly who invented the first washing machine and dryer. Some of the patents are so old that nothing is known about the original patent holder).

1905 – The radio fax was patented in the U.S. by Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. His device was called “a system for transmitting intelligence.” However, faxing did not become a practical mode of communication until the 1920s, and high-speed faxes were not available until the 1940s.

1910 – The first seaplane took off from Martigues near Marseilles, France, designed by Frenchman Henri Fabre.

1922 – Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C., patented a microfilm reading device.

1949 – Fred Hoyle unintentionally coined the term “Big Bang” as a household name, in a scripted radio broadcast on a BBC Program.

1977 – Morarji Desai forms government.

1996 – JKLF declared unlawful by Indian central govt.

1999 – Pakistan decides to ease visa restrictions for the aged, women and children from India in response to New Delhi’s move towards visa relaxation for several categories of Pakistani nationals.

2017 – World’s largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia.

2019 – Study of a 71 year-old British woman who has never felt pain, for the first time understood as due to a gene mutation, published in British Journal of Anesthesia.

Born….

1926 – Pahelam Ratanji “Polly” Umrigar, cricketer (Indian batsman & captain).

1948 – Moon Moon Sen, actor.

1975 – Sandhya Mridul. actor.

1975 – Akshaye Khanna, actor.

1976 – Chitrangada Singh, actor.

1978 – Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe,1997. (Joseph hanged herself in her flat in Versova on 29 July 2004. She was to marry businessman Gautam Khanduja in a few weeks’ time, and it broke up).

RIP….

1645 – Har Govind Singh, Sikh Guru.

1943 – Sundara Sastri Satyamurti, an Indian independence activist and leading Congress politician of Madras Presidency.

2006 – Chaudhary Bansi Lal, politician.

2012 – T. Damodaran, screenwriter of Malayalam cinema.

Titbits….

2012 – The Mega Millions jackpot in the U.S. reaches a world record in lottery history – $500 million dollars.

You may have known….   

A cat’s brain is known to share 90% similarity with ours.

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