Today’s Motto: ‘Among the various causes of defeat, fear tops the list’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History! 

On this day, Dec.19…….

1854 – The first U.S. patent was issued for a sewing machine with a four-motion feed, which enabled sewing curving seams.

1863 – Frederick Walton of London developed linoxine by oxidizing linseed oil to produce a rubbery base. The result, Linoleum or kamptulicon was warmer and more comfortable to the feet than the ordinary painted oil-cloth. The name linoleum is formed from two Latin words for linen and oil (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1871 – Samuel Clemens received a patent for “An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Garment Straps”. He is better known as the author Mark Twain. (He subsequently held two more patents. One was for “Mark Twain’s Self-Pasting Scrapbook” in 1873, and the other in 1885 for an educational game that helped players remember important historical dates).

1899 – Black American inventor, who patented the electric race track. Woods, being the most prolific African-American inventor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has been

called the black Edison.

1910 – Rayon was first commercially produced, in Marcus Hook, USA, by the American Viscose Company. At the time, it was known by the name of artificial silk or a similar name.

1950 – Rose Marie Reid of Los Angeles received a U.S. patent for a one-piece bathing suit “embodying a novel construction for causing it to snugly fit the body of a wearer in a flattering manner.”

1952 – Nehru announces the Government’s decision for establishing an Andhra State, constituting Telugu speaking areas of the State of Madras, excluding the city.

1958 – The first known radio broadcast from outer space was transmitted. President Eisenhower’s voice issued a Christmas greeting from a pre-recorded tape on a recorder aboard an orbiting space satellite.

1961 – Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.

1978 – The Lok Sabha expels Indira Gandhi from the House and sentences her to imprisonment for a term lasting its prorogation. She was released from jail on December 26.

1995 – Unidentified aircraft drops a heap of sophisticated arms and ammunition, including AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers and anti-tank grenades in Purulia district in West Bengal.

2000 – The Government suffers an embarrassing defeat for  PM Vajpayee, defending three of his Cabinet colleagues charged in the Babri Masjid demolition case.

2018 – First use of a drone to deliver vaccines – to island of Erromango, Vanuatu, by Unicef.

2022 – 190 countries agree to protect 30% of world’s land and oceans by 2030 and other measures to halt declining global biodiversity at UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal.

Born….

1934 – Ms Pratibha Patil, former President of India.

1975 – Mahi Gill, Punjabi and Bollywood cine actor.

1984 – Ankita Lokhande, TV and cine actor.

RIP….

1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist who recognised the disease named after him (pic credit -Dermli Sozler).

1994 – K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author (photo credit-Hindu Tamil).

You may have known….

It is illegal to die in Falciano Maggico in Italy because cemetery is full.

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