March 04 : The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.

On this day, 04 Mar....

1840 - The world's first commercial photography studio was opened in New York City by John Johnson and Alexander S. Wolcott. By 8 May 1840, Wolcott had patented a camera using a mirror reflector to correct the reversed image from the usual single lens.

1841 - Longest US presidential inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison.

1951 - Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.

1955 - 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent.

1961 - First Indian aircraft carrier naval fighter vessel ''I.N.S. Vikrant'' was commissioned in Belfast.

1962 - The Atomic Energy Commission announced that the first atomic power plant in Antarctica became operational.

1977 - Cray supercomputer. The first Freon-cooled Cray-1 supercomputer, costing $19,000,000, was shipped to Los Alamos Laboratories and was used to help the defense industry create sophisticated weapons systems. This system had a peak performance of 133 megaflops and used the newest technology, integrated circuits, and vector register technology. The Cray-1 looked like no other computer before or since. It was a cylindrical machine 7 feet tall and 9 feet in diameter, weighed 30 tons and required its own electrical substation to provide it with power (an electric bill around $35,000/month).

1991 - The "Rotoblator," an artery cleaning tool, was announced by Dr. Maurice Buchbinder at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. Using a diamond head rotating at 200,000 rpm on a small shaft (only nine-thousandths of an inch) inserted in a clogged artery, obstructions could be successfully removed in about 95% of cases. This procedure is particularly useful for hardened, calcified blockages.

2015 - Scientists uncover a 2.8-million-year-old jawbone of a primitive human; the find suggests that humans may have evolved from hominins, or humanlike primates, about 400,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Born

1922 - Dina Pathak, actor.

1980 - Rohan Bopanna, tennis player.

RIP

1925 — Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali playwright, musician, editor, and artist.

1939 - Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter.

1995 - Iftekhar, actor.

Titbits

1792 - Oranges introduced to Hawaii.

1931 - Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as West Indies win the Test.

1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus".

You may have known....

In space metal sticks together. In a vacuum like space, when two pieces of metal touch each other they bond together. This is a process called cold welding. On the Earth because of the oxygen in our environment, this does not happen naturally but it is used during some manufacturing processes. It is something to take into account but it is not usually a problem as the astronaut’s tools maintain an oxide layer even when leaving Earth.