Motto for Today: ‘A leader is a dealer in hope.’

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

On this day, Sept.10…. ….

1846 – Elias Howe of Spencer, Massachusetts, received a patent for his hand-cranked sewing machine. Isaac Singer patented one five years later. Howe sued Singer for infringement and won…but by that time Singer was well ahead in the sewing machine business.

1869 – Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan. (Though the origins of the rickshaw are not entirely clear, they seem to be Japanese, and of Tokyo specifically. The most widely accepted theory offers the name of three inventors, and gives 1869 as the date of invention).

1896 – The first successful surgery on heart muscle was performed by Ludwig Rehn in Frankfurt, Germany, who sutured a myocardial laceration of a 22-yr-old man stabbed in a drunken brawl. Previously, suturing of the pericardium, a fluid sac surrounding the heart – but not a part of the heart proper – was successfully executed by Americans Henry C. Dalton on 6 Sep 1891and Daniel Hale Williams on 9 Jul 1893. These operations took place at a time when the prevailing belief was of the inviolability of the heart. Rehn’s achievement is regarded as a landmark for the beginning of cardiac surgery.

1984 – DNA fingerprinting was discovered in Leicester, England, by Alec Jeffreys as X-ray films of his tests first revealed the possibility. As he studied the image, at first what he saw seemed just a complicated mess. Then he realised this could be DNA-based biological identification since every person has a unique DNA profile. The technique has since helped in forensics, crime investigation and identifying family members. However, this result was merely an accident outcome of research Jeffreys was conducting to trace genetic markers through families for the original purpose of understanding inheritance patterns of illness. (The first use of DNA profiling in criminology (1986) proved innocence).

1964 – Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms.

1966 – Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill for the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states.

1977 – The Planning Commission decides to introduce the Rolling Plan concept.

1985 – Karl Hassel of Plain City, Ohio was awarded a patent for his built-in child’s car seat.

2015 – Scientists discover a cache of skeletons of a new species of human ancestor, named Homo naledi, in a South African cave; the hominids are thought to have possibly lived up to three million years ago.

2019 – Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari dies after setting herself on fire during her trial, for entering a stadium disguised as a man in Tehran.

Born….

1872 – Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji “Ranji”, Maharaj Jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer. He was referred to as “The prince

of a little state, but the king of a great game”.

1887 – Govind Ballabh Pant. He was an outstanding parliamentary figure of his days. Was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1959.

1923 – Ram Jethamalani, lawyer.

1972 – Anurag Kashyap, screenwriter.

1980 – Jayam Ravi, actor.

RIP….

1915 – Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.

1920 – Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary.

You may have known….
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan