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On this day,  Mar.22……

1739 – Nadir Shah entered Delhi. He gave the signal to one of his soldiers from Sunheri mosque.

1793 – Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by

Santa Clara, California, USA – March 29, 2018: Entrance of The Intel Museum in Silicon Valley. Intel is an American multinational corporation and technology company.

the zamindars every year.

1895 – The first motion picture shown on a screen was presented by Auguste and Louis Lumière. An invited audience in Paris, viewed the film La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière.

1907 – The first internal combustion-powered cabs in London with taximeters began operating. The taximeter gave the cab its modern name. Its purpose was to indicate to both driver and passenger the distance travelled and so avoid arguments about payment due. The word derives from French taxe = price and Greek metron = measure. (The taximeter was invented by Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891).

1907 – Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organised a campaign of civil disobedience. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations.

1932 – Indian Muslims break with Great Britain.

1942 – Both Congress and Muslim League refused Cripps Mission offer. Congress adopts Quit India Resolution. Cripps Commission came to India which was preceded by Sir Stephard Crips to find out a political formula for transfer of power to Indians.

1945 – The Arab League is founded.

1946 – The first rocket built in the United States left the Earth’s atmosphere, whereas Germany had launched a rocket the year before. The U.S. rocket attained an altitude of 50 miles.

1957 – The national calendar based on the Saka Era, with Chaitra as its first month and a normal year of 365 days was adopted in India along with the Gregorian calendar. (Also marks the beginning of Chaitra Navaratras)

1960 – The first laser was patented by Arthur Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes under the title “Masers and Maser Communications System.”

1964 – 200 die in communal violence in the industrial towns of Jamshedpur and Rourkela.

1977 – Indira Gandhi-led Indian National Congress party lost the 6th general election of India. She resigned as Prime Minister.

1985 -The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer was adopted and opened for signature. It entered into force on 22 Sep 1988.

1993 – The Intel Corporation produces the first Pentium microprocessor.

2018 – US President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports.

2020 – India puts 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19.

2021 – Evanston, Illinois, votes to become the first US city to pay reparations to Black residents for past discriminations and effects of slavery, giving $400,000 to each household.

2021 – Sanctions imposed on Chinese officials over rights abuses against Uighurs in China by EU, UK, US and Canada.

(image credits-Deccan Herald)

2022 – Microplastics found in human blood for first time through new research conducted at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs.
RIP….2005 – Gemini Ganesan, actor. (Ramaswamy Ganesan, was known as the “King of Romance”, for his good-looking charm and on and off-screen romances. One of his daughters is the Bollywood star Rekha).

Titbits….

1903 – Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought.

You may have known….

Six billion kg of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.

{Compiled by Lt.Gen. (R) RajKadyan}