A Very Happy Army Day
On this day, 15 Jan....
1656 - Chhatrapati Shivaji conquered Javali state.
1759 - The British Museum, in Bloomsbury, London, the world's oldest public national museum, opened to the public who were admitted in small groups, by ticket obtained in advance, for a conducted tour.
1797 - The top hat was first worn in England by James Heatherington, a Strand haberdasher in London. An issue of the Times of that period records that when he left his shop with his extraordinary headwear, a crowd of onlookers assembled, which degenerated into a shoving match. Consequently, Heatherington was summoned to appear in court before the Lord Mayor and fined £50 for going about in a manner "calculated to frighten timid people." Within a month, he was overwhelmed with orders for the new top hats.
1861 - The safety elevator was patented as a “Hoisting Apparatus” by the American inventor, Elisha G. Otis, of Yonkers, New York. His invention was designed to arrest a fall in case of the lifting rope breaking.
1863 - Woodpulp paper was first used in the U.S. for a printed newspaper by the Boston Morning Herald of Boston.
1889 - The idea of a "Rotary Dining Table" was issued a U.S. patent to a Black American inventor, Daniel Johnson of Kansas City, Kansas. His idea was to combine a "rotary table and adjustable chair adapted for saloons of sea-going vessels and of other descriptions, in which the occupants of the chairs may be served in rotation from one stationary base of supply without the danger and inconvenience incident to the person making the circuit of the table when the vessel is upon the seas, and also enabling the persons seated at the table to be served with dispatch."
1907 - Gold dental inlays were first described in the U.S. by H. William Taggart, a Chicago dentist. His invention of a method for casting gold inlays by the inverted pattern procedure used the ancient principle of the "disappearing core." (The use of gold for the filling of dental cavities was first described a half century earlier, in Oct 1854).
1934 - 8.0/8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal; 10,700 die.
1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed.
1948 - Gandhiji hails Indian Cabinet's decision to release Pakistan dues of Rs. 550 million. Fast continues for establishment of communal peace.
1949 - Cariappa's took over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander-in-Chief of India. It is celebrated as an Army Day.
1955 - The first U.S. house to be both solar-heated and radiation-cooled started its system. It was made using a large slanted slab of steel and glass that converted sunlight into heat, which was ducted into the house. Summer cooling used the same ducts and associated fans and controls.
1958 - Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.
1970 - The first evidence was uncovered of the razing by fire of Jerusalem by Roman troops led by General Titus in 70 A.D. upon orders from Caesar. Israeli archaeologist Prof. Nahumn Avigad excavated ruins in the Jewish Quarter of Old Jerusalem, a few hundred yards from the Wailing Wall. Three meters (10 feet) under the earth, he found two rooms with evidence of intense heat and ashes.
1988 - Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 and 8-75) vs. WI on Test debut.
1988 - Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record.
1996 - Restoration of the original name of the city as "Mumbai" for Bombay.
1996 - Victoria Terminus (VT) station in Mumbai renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus by the Centre.
Born
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor.
1947 - Pritish Nandi, journalist.
1956 - Mayawati, politician.
1964 - Bhanupriya, actor.
1982 - Neil Mukesh, actor.
RIP
1970 - William T. Piper, American manufacturer of small aircraft, best known for the Piper Cub, a two-seater that became the most popular family aircraft. He earned the sobriquet "the Henry F
Titbits
1831 - 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston.
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