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On this day, 17 Jun….

1756 – Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.

1837 – Charles Goodyear obtained his first rubber-processing patent. At this time, the original india-rubber would become sticky melt in the summer heat. Goodyear resolved to solve this problem. After various unsuccessful methods, he devised a process to treat the India rubber with metallic solutions such as copper nitrate and strong acid for a few minutes, followed by washing with water. Such process treated both rubber on the surface and below the surface to a useful condition.

1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour from France aboard French ship `Isere’.

1928 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman passenger to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Wales.

1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

1936 – Edwin H. Armstrong demonstrated his invention of FM radio in Washington D.C. to a fact-finding investigation conducted by the Federal Communications Commission into the future of radio and television.

1950 – The first kidney transplant operation took place in Chicago in a 45-minute operation performed by Dr. Richard H. Lawler.

1967 – China tested its first hydrogen bomb. This was China’s sixth nuclear test, and its first full scale radiation implosion weapon test. Thus China became world’s 4th thermonuclear power.

1970 – Edwin Land patented the Polaroid camera.

1988 – Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0.

1991 – The body of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the USA, is exhumed to test how he died; rumours had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning – no evidence of this was found.