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On this day, 01 Jan….

1772 – 1st traveller’s checks issued (London).

1785 – The first edition of the newspaper The Universal Daily Register was published in London. Its name was changed to become The Times, by which it has been known to the present day.

1841 – Austrian inventor Friedrich Voigtländer began selling the world’s first purpose-built portrait camera.

1877 – England’s Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India.

1880 – Money order system was introduced (pic credit-Getty Images).

1889 – A motor vehicle excise tax took effect in Great Britain.

1896 – German scientist, Wilhelm Röntgen announced his discovery of X-rays.

1902 -Tthe first radio broadcast demonstration in the U.S. was given by Nathan B. Stubblefield. His voice was the first to be carried on the air-waves (“wireless” – without any wires used for the transmission).

1906 – In British India, all the railway and telegraph clocks were put at Indian Standard Time. The country had a single time zone, IST, at 5 hours and 30 minutes in advance of GMT. This was about 9 minutes faster than Madras time, and about 24 min slower than Calcutta time. However, Calcutta and adjoining areas, until 1948, kept a separate time zone, Calcutta LMT (Local Mean Time). {Pakistan kept IST for three years after its partition, then in 1951 introduced Pakistan Standard Time at 5 hours ahead of GMT}.

1915 – Aspirin was made available for the first time in tablet form. The medicine had previously been sold in powder form from 1 May 1899.

1928 – The first high-rise office building in the world with air-conditioning installed during construction – the Milam Building – opened in San Antonio, Texas (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1946 – ENIAC, the first U.S. computer was finished by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. Though not the first ever computer, ENIAC is regarded as the first successful, general digital computer. It weighed over 27,000 kg and contained more than 18,000 vacuum tubes.

1948 – Orissa province accedes to India.

1949 – A ceasefire between India and Pakistan came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North.

1966 – Effective on this day, all US cigarette packages began carrying the health warning: Caution: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health.

1976 – Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on Indian TV stations started.

1988 – The Officers Training School (OTS, Chennai)) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy

2000 – Greenwich Electronic Time – known as GeT – was initiated in Britain to act as an international standard for all electronic commerce. All e-mail messages and e-commerce transactions already carry a “time stamp” based on Co-ordinated Universal Time – the modern equivalent of GMT.

Born….

1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician who collaborated with Albert Einstein to develop a theory of statistical quantum mechanics, now called Bose-Einstein statistics.

1950 – Deepa Mehta, film actor, director knoen for roles in Fire, Water, Earth, Midnight’s Children, Funny Boys, Hollywood-Bollywood etc.  She has  won many  Canadian Film awards, Cannes and  others  for her  direction.

1951 – Nana Patekar,  Marathi and Bollywood actor known for aggrressive and bold dialogues in pics like  It’s My Life, Natsamrat, Andha Yudh, SP Suhas Dandekar, Trishagni, Awam, Col Mustafa  Ali  Zahidi, Saalm Bombay, Parinda, Tiranga, Krantiveer, Hum Dono, Dharma etc. He has won 3 National Awards, 4 Filmfatre and 2 Filmfare Marathi awards. (pic credit-KaviraChhibber.com)

1975 – Sonali Bendre, Bollywood  and also Telugu, Tamil film actor. Known for roles in  Aag, Diljale, Duplicate, Murari, Sarfarosh, Ham Saath Saath Hain,   Kal Ho Na Ho etc. She has won 11 awards, from 14 nomonations in Filmare and other accolades.

1978 – Vidya Balan, popular Bollywood actor who is known for Bhool Bulaiya, Dirty Picture, Kahaani, Do Aur Do Pyaar, Shakuntla Devi, Mission Mangal, Lage Raho Munna Bhai,  etc. She has won a National award, 7 Filmfare and others..

RIP…. 1944 – Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England’s most outstanding architect of his time. Was awarded  Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects and other industry awards.

1966 – Bimal Roy, legendary  film maker and producer. He is known for  socialistic films like Do Bigha Zamin, Prem Patras, Devdas, Biraj Bahu, Madhumati, Sujata, Bandini, Parakh, Yahudi,  etc. He won 2 National, 11 Filmfare and one Cannes Film awards. Madhumati won 9 awards, an all time  record.

You may have known….

An 1839 satirical article about grammar included an intentional misspelling of “oll korrect,” and the course of American English was changed. OK came into every day use.

                                                                                              {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}