Today’s Motto: ‘If you can imagine it, you can make it’

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 NewsonRadar Last updated Feb 1, 2024

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

On this day, Feb. 01……

1788 – Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat (Pic credit-PatentYogi).

1811 – The Bell Rock Lighthouse was lit for the first time. It was built by Robert Stevenson on a treacherous sandstone reef, which, except at low tides, lies submerged just beneath the waves. Since then, no repair has been necessary to its stonework. It is the oldest sea-washed lighthouse in existence. It was Stevenson’s finest achievement,

regarded by many as the finest lighthouse ever built, the most outstanding engineering achievement of the 19th century. In the centuries before, the dangerous Bell Rock had claimed thousands of lives, as vessels were wrecked on its razor-sharp serrated rocks.

1820 – A U.S. patent for a cement that hardened under water was issued to Canvass White, an engineer.
1851 – The submarine, Le Plongeur-Marin was tested in Kiel Harbour, but it suffered leaks and sank 50 feet. Its builder, Sebastian Wilhelm Valentin Bauer, a German pioneer inventor of submarines, was on board. He survived by waiting for the inside air pressure, compressed as more water leaked in, to match the water pressureoutside.

Seven hours later, he and his crew opened the hatch and rose to the surface to find funeral services in progress. (He was not deterred by the accident, and went on to build a treadmill-powered, 52-ft iron submarine, Le Diable-Marin).
1851 – Evaporated milk was invented by Gail Borden.
1881 – The prestigious St. Stephen’s College in Delhi was established.
1884 – 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published.
1887 – Harvey Wilcox subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood).

1898 – China’s empress Tzu-hsi who gained power by killing Coup leaders . She forbid binding woman’s feet. (Foot binding was a Chinese custom to prevent further growth. The practice possibly originated among upper-class court dancers and later became a means of displaying status and a symbol of beauty in Chinese culture. Feet altered by binding were called lotus feet. If a woman’s feet were bound, it was a sign that she was a higher-class woman who did not have to do hard work. However, foot binding slowly spread to the lower classes who wanted to try and get a higher social status. By the 17th century, Chinese girls of all social statuses had their feet bound. Foot-binding, since declared illegal, caused lifelong disabilities. (Pic credit-History Today).
1911 – Thomas Jennings was found guilty with the first use of fingerprint evidence in the U.S. Upon appeal, the Illionis Supreme Court ruled the evidence was admissible.
1972 – The first scientific hand-held calculator was introduced for $395 by Hewlett- Packard, named the HP-35 for having 35 keys. (It was the first hand-held calculator able to perform logarithmic and trigonometric functions with one keystroke).

1984 – Ravindra Hareshwar Mhatre, an Indian diplomat in UK who was kidnapped and later murdered in Birmingham by British Kashmiri militants. Yasin Malik of JKLF claimed responsibility and demanded a ransom of 1 million pounds and the release of militant prisoned in India (pic credit-Organiser).

1985 – Muhammad Azharuddin created a world record at Kanpur by hitting a century in each of his first three tests.
1994 – ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company.

2011 – Protesters stage the largest demonstration ever against the Mubarak regime in Egypt; two million people gather in Tahir Square, vowing to stay until Mubarak leaves his post.

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