Today’s Motto: ‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog’

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

On this day, Jan. 30…

1790- The first lifeboat – built specially to rescue people from stormy sea, the Original, was first tested at sea.

1844 – Richard Theodore Greener became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.

1847 – The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.

1894 – Charles B. King of Michigan received a patent for the pneumatic hammer. Inside the hammer, a piston in a cylinder was driven by air pressure to hit a striker and tool. (Pneumatic tools had been developed and manufactured as early as 1883).

1911 – The first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer “Terry.” Pilot James McCurdy was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.

1948 – Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse. (Prior to his death, there had been five unsuccessful attempts to kill Gandhi, the first occurring in 1934).

1950 – Development of the hydrogen fusion bomb (H-bomb) was ordered by U.S. President Truman. The codename of “Super” for the project reflected the far greater power of this thermonuclear device over the earlier fission bombs used to end WW II.

1957 – An external artificial pacemaker with internal heart electrode was first used. (To maintain a patient’s heartbeat rhythm an electrode was sewn to the wall of the heart and connected through the chest to an external desk-top pulse generator). However, such bulky equipment was not a good long-term solution since infection often occurred along the electrode wires, and the device required no interruption in the house electricity. Research was undertaken for use of a small portable external pacemaker for patients with heart block. This ultimately led to the development of the billion-dollar pacemaker industry.

1958 – Yves Saint Laurent, at age 22, held his first major fashion show in Paris.
1958 – The first two-way, moving sidewalk, 1,425 feet long, was put in service at Love Field Air Terminal in Dallas, Texas. It was known not only as a moving sidewalk, but also as a passenger conveyor.
1994 – Peter Leko became the world’s youngest-ever grand master in chess.
1994 – Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee’s world record of 431 Test wkts.

1996 – Mob ransacks Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Bangalore.

1997 – Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes immersed in Sangam.
1998 – A new glue, Dermabond, able to replace painful stitches, won the unanimous vote of a medical advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration, US. As claimed the Dermabond could seal off certain wounds

quickly, without the need for painful shots, With the use of Dermabond, a wound can be kept closed, sterile and flexible while it is healing. A doctor simply presses the cut’s edges together and paints the glue across the top. Proper medical application takes skill and practice, so the glue isn’t meant for home use.

2002 – Japan’s last coal mine was closed. The closures were due to high production costs and cheap imports.

2017 – Scientists in central China reveal oldest known human ancestor – 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus in a fossil.

Born….
1889 – Jaishankar Prasad,  most prominent Hindi writer who wrote Kamayani and many best selling epics.
1913 – Amrita Sher-Gill, popular painter, writer, politician. (pics credit-Architectural Digest India) 
RIP….
1528 – Rana Sanga of Mewar, who had built up an extensive and powerful kingdom over the central and western regions of Northern India, including Rajasthan  (pic credit-Dharamyudh).
Titbits….

1798 – The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
You may have known….
Alcohol related driving fatalities are higher in dry countries than in countries that sell alcohol.

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