On this day, 09 May...
1753 - Maharaja Surajmal attacks on Delhi.
1825 - The first gas lighting of a theatre in New York city, U.S. (Previously gas lighting had been seen in theatres, it was only as a novelty, but not illumination. The New York Post and Mirror reported that the whole theatre was lighted by gas "which sheds a clear soft light over the audience and stage." The illumination "elicited the loudest plaudits from those present).
1865 - A U.S. patent was issued to Richard Jordan Gatling for the Gatling gun, invented 1861. It was the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate and ease of loading into a single device. The gun was hand-cranked to rotate a cylinder of ten barrels, each loaded from a gravity-feed magazine on top and fired on each revolution. (He was motivated to invent the weapon after he noticed the majority of dead returning from the American Civil War died of illness, rather than gunshots. He thought if a rapid-firing gun could enable one man to do what previously required many, then armies could be smaller, saving men from exposure to battle and disease).
1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, travelling two routes.
1882 - A stethoscope of the now classic design, invented by William F. Ford was issued a U.S. patent.
1893 - The first motion picture exhibition was given by Thomas Alva Edison in New York to an audience of 400 people using Edison's Kinetograph. An optical lantern projector showed moving images of a blacksmith and his two helpers passing a bottle and forging a piece of iron.
1899 - Lawnmower patented. (The first lawn mower was invented by Edwin Budding in 1830 in England. Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the grass on sports grounds and extensive gardens, as a superior alternative to the scythe. , and was granted a British patent on August 31, 1830. It took ten more years and further innovations to create a machine that could be drawn by animals, and sixty years before a steam-powered lawn mower was built).
1926 - A rotor ship first replaced the sails.
1926 - The first flight over the North Pole was made by Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett.
1936 - The Hindenburg Zeppelin arrived at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, from Germany marking the beginning of regular transatlantic passenger service. The flight, carrying 51 passengers and 56 crew, took 61-hr 38-min.
1949 - Britain's first launderette opened in Queensway, London.
1960 - The birth control pill was approved as safe by U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
1962 - A laser beam was bounced off the moon from the earth by MIT scientists. The area of the light beam on the surface was estimated at a diameter of 4 miles.
1995 - Militants set Chara township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine in Kashmir. More than 1,000 houses burnt.
Born
1540 - Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary Rajput warrior.
1866 - Gopal Krishan Gokhale. He was one of the social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement. He also founded the Servants of India Society.
1954 – Mallika Sarabhai, social activist.
RIP
1998 – Talat Mahmood, singer and film actor. (His lilting number जायें तो जायें कहाँ picturised on Dev Anand on a sea beach, in the black & white movie 'Taxi Driver' remains immortal).
You may have known...
Mahatma Gandhi who had paid his only visit to Kashmir when visited from 1 to 4 Aug 1947, admired the masses for maintaining exemplary Hindu-Muslim unity at a time when there were dark clouds of strife and observed that he saw “a ray of hope” in Kashmir despite communal frenzy elsewhere on the sub-continent.
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