On this day, 11 Jan....
1820 - As the steel industry was making huge technological advances, chemists tried to create a rust-proof, or stainless steel. A French metallurgist observed that when carbon steel was combined with an alloy like chrome, it did yield a rust-resistant metal. A century would pass before two British scientists continued his work and, in 1913, Europe was introduced to stainless steel.
1913 - 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City).
1922 - Leonard Thompson, age 14, was the very first person to receive an injection of insulin as a treatment for diabetes. He weighed only 65 pounds and was about to slip into a coma and die. The allergic reaction he displayed was attributed to an impurity in the pioneering extract provided by Drs. Frederick Banting and Charles Best. Twelve days later Thompson received a more purified dose of insulin prepared by Dr. James Collip. His symptoms began to disappear as his blood sugar returned to normal and he regained strength. Before this time, diabetes had inevitably resulted in death within months or even weeks of the diagnosis. Thompson lived another 13 years with the insulin. He died at the age of 27 due to pneumonia, a diabetes complication.
1954 - The first in-vision weather forecaster broadcast on BBC television. George Cowling of the Meteorological Office presented from the BBC's Lime Grove studios with two hand-drawn weather charts pinned to an easel.
1958 - Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
1964 - The U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry, announced the results of a study on the health effects of smoking, ordered by President Kennedy in 1962. As America's first widely publicised official recognition of the dangers, it stated “Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action.”
1986 - The first MiG-27M fighter, built under license by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is delivered and inducted into the Indian Air Force.
1986 - Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.
Born
1951 - MJ Akbar, journalist.
1951 - Shekhar Gupta, journalist.
1954 - 1954 – Kailash Satyarthi, engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate. Born 'Kailash Sharma' he is anIndian children's rights and education advocate and an activist against child labour. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries.
1973 - Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
RIP
1966 - Bharat Ratna Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61. {Shastri's slogan of "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" became very popular during the 1965 war and is remembered even today. The war formally ended with the Tashkent Agreement on 10 January 1966; he died the following day, still in Tashkent, The cause of death was said to be a heart attack but there are various speculations to think that it was a planned murder by the CIA}.
1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator.
Titbits
1971 - 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK.
You may have known....
Mother Earth has a generous waistline: At the equator, the circumference of the globe is 24,901 miles (40,075 kilometers). At the equator, you would weigh less than if standing at one of the poles.
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