Today’s Motto: Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day………….

............Set a man’s imagination on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life'

As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book.

By Editor's Desk Last updated Jul 16, 2024

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

On this day, Jan. 21……..

1790 – Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed the guillotine to the newly formed National Assembly of Paris as a “humane” method of execution. Three years later, in 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine, for treason. Named after the originator, A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The aim of capital punishment was to end life and not to inflict pain. Designed during the French Revolution, the guillotine remained France’s standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. The last person guillotined in France was Hamida Djandoubi, on 10 September 1977. (Interestingly, Dr. Guillotin was opposed to the death penalty (pic credit-Academic Kids)).

1799 – Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination was introduced.

1840 – Charles Wheatstone and William F. Cooke were granted the earliest English alphabetic telegraph patent. Wheatstone. The ABC telegraph was popular in England and Europe because it did not require a trained telegraphist to read or send the messages (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1880 – tion of The first independent municipal sewage system in the U.S. began in

Memphis.

1954 – The first atomic submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Connecticut. Its nuclear propulsion system was a landmark in the history of naval engineering and submersible craft. All vessels previously known as “submarines” were in fact only submersible craft. Because of the nuclear power plant, the Nautilus could stay submerged for months at a time, unlike diesel-fuelled subs, whose engines required vast amounts of oxygen.

1970 – The world’s largest airplane, ‘Jumbo jet’, Boeing 747, had its first flight from New York to London. With almost double the capacity of Boeing 737 the 747 opened up economic long-distance travel to the masses.

1976 – Commercial supersonic passenger service began with two simultaneous Concorde jet airplane flights. With engines twice as powerful as those of normal jets, their 1,350 mph cruising speed was double the speed of sound (Mach 2.04), and halved air travel time, at a cruise altitude of 60,000 feet