January 12 : Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business; keep a happy team.

 On this day, 12 Jan....

1896 - The first x-ray photograph in the U.S. may have been taken by Dr. Henry Louis Smith. It showed the location of a bullet in the hand of a corpse, using a 15 minute exposure. Immediately after he first heard of Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery in Germany, Smith obtained the hand of the cadaver, and fired a bullet into it, for this experiment. The X-ray photograph was published on 27 Feb 1896 in the Charlotte Observer.

1908 - A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

1937 - The first U.S. patent for a submarine cable plow was issued. It was designed to feed a cable at the same time that it would dig a trench in the ocean bed. The device could be used at depths up to a half mile.

1948 - Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.

1990 - Upper age limit for Indian Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years.

1996 - Supreme Court of India holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill.

2012 - A law banning Palestinians who marry Israeli's from gaining citizenship is upheld by Israel's Supreme Court.

2013 - The air pollution in Beijing reaches levels deemed hazardous to human health.

Born

1399 - Kritiwas, writer of Ramayana in Bengali language.

1863 - Swami Vivekananda, (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer.

1918 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Transcendental Meditation movement)

1918 - C Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director.

1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, politician.

1973 - Sakshi Tanwar, actor.

RIP

1897 -   Sir Isaac Pitman, English inventor of the Phonetic Shorthand System.

1992 - Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous Classical singer.

2001 -  William Hewlett, an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Hewlett-Packard Company, a leading manufacturer of computers, computer printers, and analytic and measuring equipment.

2005 - Amrish Puri, actor.

You may have known....

Researchers calculate the age of the Earth by dating both the oldest rocks on the planet and meteorites that have been discovered on Earth.  Their findings? Earth is about 4.54 billion years old.