Thursday 25 January 2018

January 25 : Too many kings can ruin an army.


On this day, 25 Jan....


1565 - Battle at Talikota: the Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar's army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India.


1799 - A seed-planting device was patented by Eliakim Spooner of Vermont. The seeds were fed by gravity. The machine was not practical, however. The first truly practical seeding machine to be patented in the U.S. was invented by Joseph Gibbons of Adrian. His machine combined a grain drill with cavities to deliver seed and a device for regulating the volume.


1870 - Gustavus Dows of US received his first patent for an "Improved Soda Fountain" being the vessel in which carbon dioxide was injected, both forming the soda-water beverage, and delivering the drink using the internal pressure.


1914 - An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorse the agreement between General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters.


1915 -The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated transcontinental telephone service in the United States with a call made between New York City and San Francisco, which was answered by Dr. Watson, his longtime assistant.


1945 - Grand Rapids became the first U.S. city to begin fluoridating the drinking water. With the intention of reducing tooth decay, one part per million of fluoride was added to the water supply. (Fluorine is the 13th most abundant element on earth, found in nature in its ionic form - fluoride - in combination with other elements, such as calcium, magnesium, phosphates etc. The highest concentrations are found in the bones and teeth. Decades after the conclusion of the Grand Rapids fluoridation study, fluoride continues to be dental science's main weapon in the battle against tooth decay).

1950 - The post of the Governor General of India was abolished.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II. During the Second World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command (1943–46). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of independent India (1947–48).


Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972) informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer and statesman. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India.


1952 - The Autronic Eye, an automatic car headlamp beam control was introduced to the public by General Motors. A phototube atop the left end of the dashboard, just inside the windshield, dimmed the lights upon the approach of an oncoming car, and back to bright when the traffic had passed.


1955 - Columbia University scientists developed an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years.


1957 - Kashmir becomes Indian State.


1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian State.


1981 - Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death.

2000 - The Centre begins the process of privatising the country's domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, and also approves the sale of majority equity in Modern Foods India Limited.


2005 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.


2015 - U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi make progress in the areas of defence and nuclear trade; the countries plan to cooperate on defence issues, military manufacturing initiatives and nuclear power development.

Born


1917 - Captain P.K. Sahgal, freedom fighter who attended Indian Military Academy course at Dehradun.


1958 - Kavita Krishnamurthy, singer.


1988 - Cheteshwar Pujara, cricketer.

You may have known....


The deepest point on the ocean floor is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) below sea level in the Mariana Trench. The lowest point on Earth not covered by ocean is 8,382 feet (2,555) meters below sea level. That spot is in the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica, buried under lots and lots of ice.

Google (Doodle) Celebrations....



She is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Born in an affluent household in Kensington, London, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College and was acquainted with the early reformers of women's higher education.


Having been home-schooled for the most part of her childhood, mostly in English classics and Victorian literature, Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. She published her first novel titled The Voyage Out in 1915, through the Hogarth Press, a publishing house that she established with her husband, Leonard Woolf. Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."


Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism, and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary for "inspiring feminism", an aspect of her writing that was unheralded earlier. Her works are widely read all over the world and have been translated into more than fifty languages. She suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.[2] Google celebrated her 136th birthday with a doodle.


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