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On this day, Mar.01…

1640 – Britishers were allowed to do commercial activities in Madras.

1818 – Singhgad was won by the Britishers after the end of Peshwa kingdom.

1869 – Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time.

1896 – Henri Becquerel accidentally discovered radioactivity when he developed a photographic plate, he left in a desk drawer with crystals of a uranium compound upon it. He found a fogged image of the uranium crystals resting on it, although the plate was wrapped in heavy black paper.

1912 – Captain Albert Berry performed the first parachute jump from an airplane over Jefferson , U.S.A. (Leonardo da Vinci drew a parachute in 1485. With two very large umbrellas, Frenchman Louis-Sébastien Lenormand tested the concept by jumping from a tree in 1783. The first parachute jump from a hydrogen balloon was made by Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin on 22 Oct 1797).

1954 – At Bikini, in the Pacific Ocean, the blast of the U.S. hydrogen bomb code-named Bravo was the most powerful of all U.S. thermonuclear bomb tests in the area. Equivalent to at least 15 megatons of TNT, it was similar to 1,000 atomic bombs of the kind dropped on Hiroshima. Bikini is a Pacific archipelago that is part of the Marshall Islands. In this test, one of the atolls was totally vaporized and disappeared in the over 100-mile wide mushroom cloud. Fallout exceeded predictions. Earlier tests began in 1946 after the indigenous people were evacuated to an island believed to be a safe distance away. (They were moved again in 1949.) Radioactivity made the bomb site islands an unsafe wasteland for many decades to follow.

1966 – The mission of the Soviet Union’s unmanned spacecraft Venera 3 (Venus 3) was a partial success when it reached Venus and automatically released a small landing capsule intended to explore the planet’s atmosphere during a parachute descent. However, contact had been lost since 16 Feb 1966. Although no data was returned before the capsule impacted, it became the first man-made object to touch the surface of another planet.

1978 – Charlie Chaplin’s coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery.

2000 – Harikrishna becomes India’s youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament.

2018 – Earliest evidence for figural tattoos (bull and sheep) on two naturally mummified bodies from Egypt’s predynastic period (3351-3017BC) published in “Journal of Archaeological Science”.

2022 – Cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury Volkswagen Group cars sinks off the Portuguese Azores archipelago, two weeks after it caught fire.
Born….

1917 – Kartar Singh Duggal, famous author.

1939 – Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen, former Air Chief.

1983 – Mary Kom, boxer.

RIP….

1994 – Manmohan Desai, screenwriter.

1995 – Iftikar, famous character actor.

You may have known….

Maximum risk of a heart attack is either on a Monday morning or on Christmas Day.

 

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