On this day, 15 Jun...
1752 - Ben Franklin's kite-flying experiment proved lightning and electricity were related. In Sep 1752, he equipped his house with a lightning rod, connecting it to bells that ring when the rod is electrified.
1785 - 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident.
1844 - Charles Goodyear patents the vulcanization of rubber.
1867 - The first U.S. gallstone operation was performed by Dr. John Stough Bobbs, known as "the father of cholecystotomy". While operating on his patient, Mary E. Wiggins for a suspected ovarian cyst, he found the gallbladder was inflamed and containing structures like "several solid ordinary rifle bullets." He opened the sack, removed multiple gallstones but left the gallbladder in place after closing the defect (cholecystostomy). The patient recovered and outlived Dr. Bobbs. (The first account of gallstones had been given as early as 1420 by a Florentine pathologist Antonio Benevieni, in a woman who died with abdominal pain. Jean-Louis Petit performed gallbladder surgery in Europe in 1743).
1869 - John Wesley Hyatt and Isaiah Hyatt have issued a U.S. patent for the first plastic, which they called "Improved Method of Making Solid Collodion".
1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground.
1880 - The first U.S. patent for a safety razor was issued to brothers Frederick and Otto Kampfe of New York. Their patent described their razor to be “simple and durable in construction, of small first cost, compact in form, and adapted to be used without soiling the fingers of the user.” Two decades later, King Camp Gillette invented the disposable safety razor blade.
1908 - Stock Exchange of Calcutta was opened of Baldeodas Daduawala and Overend.
1924 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile.
1947 - All-India Congress accepts British plan for the partition of India in New Delhi. Also known as the Mountbatten Plan, it envisioned dividing British India on the basis of religious demographics, which went on to create the Sovereign States of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India (later the Republic of India). The creation of Pakistan was advocated by the All India Muslim League (which was founded in Dhaka in 1906) by Muslims who were of the opinion that Muslim members of the Indian National Congress did not enjoy the same rights as Hindu members did.
1990 - Punjab Government returned gold and other valuables seized from Golden Temple during the 1984 Blue Star operation to SGPC.
Born
1950 - Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist.
1953 - Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (2012-) and President of the People's Republic of China (2013-).
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2006 – Surinder Kaur, songwriter.
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- CBDT notifies Cost Inflation Index for FY 2018-19 at 280. This notification shall come into force with effect from April 1, 2019, and shall accordingly apply to the AY 2019-20.
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- ED Attaches Rs 138-Crore Assets of Kanishk Gold & its Managing Director Bhoopesh Kumar Jain under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)
- Govt raises the Import Duty by 5-10 percent on Non-Palm Edible Oils, Both Crude and Refined Ones, in order to protect the interest of Domestic Oilseeds Growers and Processors
- Fortis Healthcare Withdraws Amalgamation Scheme with SRL & Fortis Malar, citing a delay in its completion
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