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On this day, Mar.23……

1836 – The coin press was invented by Franklin Beale, who produced first batch of coins for the U.S. Mint.

1839 – 1st recorded use of “OK” [oll korrect] (Boston’s Morning Post).

1840 – Englishman John William Draper took the first successful photo of the Moon. He made a daguerreotype, a precursor of modern photography.

1857 – The world’s first passenger safety elevator went into service in a store at 488 Broadway and Broome Street in New York City. The safety elevator invented by Elisha Otis was powered by steam through a series of shafts and belts.

1858 – Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia patented the first plans for a cable car system.

1861 – London’s first tramcars began operating.

1869 – An electrical resistance heater was patented by Leigh Burton

1875 – The first sounding of the Mariana Trench was made by the British survey ship, H.M.S. Challenger, discovering part of the deepest known region of Earth’s oceans. {The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific Ocean, east of the Mariana Islands, near Guam. Accurate measurements from the surface remain difficult, but in 2010, NOAA used sound pulses to record a 36,070-ft depth in the Challenger Deep at its southern end}.

1903 – The Wright brothers filed a U.S. patent for their method of controlling a airplane in flight.

1913 – Indian Muslim Conference passes resolution demanding immediate self-government.

1940 – All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland.

1942 – Second World War was turning against the British and they needed the help of the Indians. So Prime Minister Churchill sent a delegation under Sir Stafford Cripps (Cripps Mission) to hold talks with the Indian leaders on the future of the subcontinent in UK, which could not take place because of the non-cooperation movement and they left after a fortnight. They submitted their report in April 1942 which was rejected by the Congress and Muslim League.

1942 – Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean.

1950 – The U.N. World Meteorological Organisation was established.

1983 – Dr. Barney C. Clark, the first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah’s Medical Centre after 112 days with the device.

1986 – The first women’s company of Central Reserve Police Force camp was raised in Durgapur.

1994 – Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev.

Born….

1910 – Dr. Ram Manohar Hiralal Lohia also known as “Dauntless Dr. Lohia”, freedom fighter and socialist leader. He founded Praja Socialist Party.

1968 – Atul Satish Wassan, cricketer.

1976 – Smriti Malhotra-Irani, politician.

RIP….

1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivram Rajguru and Sukhdev, great freedom fighters and revolutionaries, were hanged for assassination of Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Central Jail at Lahore. Bhagat Singh and his associates showed no signs of any fear as they kissed the noose, chanting “Inquilab Zindabad”.

1938 – Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, cricketer.

2000 – Udham Singh, hockey legend.

2010 – Kanu Sanyal. A communist politician, in 1967, he was one of the main leaders of the Nax

albari uprising. He committed suicide by hanging at his residence on 23 March 2010.

You may have known….

The full form of Amul is Anand Milk Union Limited.

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