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By Editor's Desk Last updated Jul 16, 2024

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On this day, Mar. 28……..

1556 – Origin of Fasli Era, India . (Fasli era is a chronological system devised by the Mughal emperor Akbar for land revenue purposes in northern India, for which the Muslim lunar calendar was inconvenient Fasli {“harvest”} is derived from the Arabic term for “division,” which in India was applied to the groupings of the seasons).

1797 – Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire received a patent for a washing machine. (It is not possible to know exactly who invented the first washing machine and dryer. Some of the patents are so old that nothing is known about the original patent holder. The first British patent for a washing machine was issued in 1691. Not much is known about this machine or the creator. In Germany, Jacob Christian Schäffer published a design for a washing machine in 1767. In 1782 Henry Sidgier was issued a British patent for a rotating drum washer).

1866 – The first hospital-based ambulance went into service in US. (The first recorded use of ambulances for emergency purposes dates back to Spain in 1487).

1905 – The radio fax was patented in the U.S. by Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. His device was called “a system for transmitting intelligence.” However, faxing did not become a practical mode of communication until the 1920s, and high-speed faxes were not available until the 1940s.

1910 – The first seaplane took off from Martigues near Marseilles, France, designed by Frenchman Henri Fabre.

1922 – Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C., patented a microfilm reading device.

1949 – Fred Hoyle unintentionally coined the term “Big Bang” as a household name, in a scripted radio broadcast on a BBC Programme.

1977 – Morarji Desai forms government.

1996 – JKLF headed by Yasin Malik declared unlawful by Indian central govt. (pic credit-Wikipedia)

1999 – Pakistan decides to ease visa restrictions for the aged, women and children from India in response to New Delhi’s move towards visa relaxation for several categories of Pakistani nationals.

2012 – The Mega Millions jackpot in the U.S. reaches a world record in lottery history – $500 million dollars.

2017 – World’s largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia.

2019 – Study of a 71 year-old British woman who has never felt pain, for the first time understood as due to a gene mutation, published in British Journal of Anaesthesia.