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On this day, Dec.23…….
1912 – In Delhi violent agitation continues as British Viceroy Lord Hardinge is wounded by a bomb explosion. (Indian
revolutionary underground in Bengal and Punjab, headed by Rash Behari Bose attempt to assassinate Viceroy of India Lord Hardinge, by throwing homemade bomb into Viceroys’s Howdah (elephant carriage) during ceremonial procession in Delhi. Although wounded, the Viceroy survives. Investigations lead to the Delhi conspiracy trial.)
1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated in Santiniketan, West Bengal.
1922 – BBC Radio began daily newscasts.
1947 – The transistor was first demonstrated by Walter H. Brattain and John Bardeen to their higher-ups at Bell Laboratories. The name transistor came from its electrical property known as trans-resistance.
1954 – The first successful kidney transplant was carried out between identical twins by surgeons at Peter Bent Hospital, Boston.
1968 – American astronauts on Apollo 8 became the first men to orbit the Moon. The three-man crew was Frank Borman (Commander), James A. Lovell, Jr. (Command Module Pilot) and William Anders (Lunar Module Pilot).
1970 – 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie’s play “The Mousetrap” (record).
1993 – Indian PM announces Local Area Development Scheme by which each MP can sanction projects worth Rs.1 crore.
1995 – The crew of the seized Russian AN-26 aircraft in Bombay confess dropping of arms at Purulia.
2000 – The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government’s proposal to rename Calcutta as ‘Kolkata’.
Born….1902 – Chaudhary Charan Singh, former Prime Minister of India and a farmers’ leader. Served as PM from July 28, 1979 to Jan. 14, 1980.
1968 – Arbaaz Khan, actor.
RIP….
1995 – 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit.
2000 – Noor Jehan, Indian singer and actress.
2004 – PV Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India.
2013 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle bearing his name.
Titbits….
1997 – Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of his wife Mia Farrow.
You may have known….
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
(Viswa Bharti pics credits-Binayak Prasad Gupta and Anindya Pakhira)
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