Today’s Motto: ‘If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit’

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

On this day,  May 13…………

1796 – English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox to an eight-year-old boy James Phipps, with material from the sores of dairymaid Sarah Nelmes who had a mild case of cowpox. A few weeks later, on 1 Jul, he subsequently tested the boy’s resistance to smallpox, by inoculating Phipps with smallpox virus. Fortunately, the immunisation had been successful. This tested a conventional wisdom he had heard that those who had survived cowpox seemed to be immune to the deadly smallpox disease (pic credit-ResearchGate).

1850 – The first U.S. patent for a dishwashing machine was issued to Joel Houghton of Ogden, NY, for an “Improvement in Machines for Washing Table Furniture”.

1856 – Charles Darwin began writing his book, The Origin of Species, sitting in the study of his country home in Down, England.

1862 – Swiss watchmaker Adolphe Nicole patented the chronograph, which was able to give split-second timing of sports events.

1878 – The name Vaseline was registered as a trademark for the petroleum jelly developed by an English-born chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough. He began, in 1859, with an interest in the petroleum oil boom, and travelled to Pelsylvania, where oil strikes began, to enter that business. Once there, his chemist’s curiosity was caught by a pasty residue that stuck to driller’s rods and clogged their pumps. Workers had found it was practical to use on burns and cuts to promote healing. Cheseborough returned to Brooklyn and spent years experimenting to extract and purify the useful ingredient he called “petroleum jelly.” Manufacturing from 1870, he received a patent on the product on 4 Jun 1872.

1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.

1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

1954 – President issues an order extending application of Indian Constitution to Kashmir with the concurrence of the State government.

1955 – The Warsaw Pact is established.

1973 – Skylab launched, 1st Space Station (pic credit-Britannica).

1986 – Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank’s complete diary.

1992 – LTTE banned in India.

2018 – China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier begins sea trials in Dalian, China.

2019 – Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide curfew from 9pm to 4am to curb violence against Muslims after the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks.

2021 – World’s largest iceberg ‘A-76’ at 1,667-square-miles (4,320 square km) calves off the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Born….

1657 – Dharmavir Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj.

1923 – Mrinal Sen, Bangladeshi-Indian director, producer, and screenwriter.

1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, as well as one of the world’s youngest billionaires.

1988 – Zarine Khan,  model and Bollywood actor (The Movie Database).

RIP….

1923 – Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar, one of the founder members of Indian Congress and social reformer.

You may have known….                                                                                                                             Emus cannot  walk backward.                                                                                                         {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}