On this day, 02 Jun...
1756 - Fort William, the English stronghold in Bengal, was surrendered to Siraj-Ud-Daulah.
1857 - The first practical U.S. chain-stitch sewing machine was patented by a farmer, James E. A. Gibbs. He had invented his own model out of curiosity in 1855, after seeing a newspaper illustration of the sewing machine. When Gibbs saw a tailor's Singer sewing machine, he thought it was too heavy, complicated, and expensive. Willcox and Gibbs sold their chain-stitch sewing machine, on a simple iron-frame stand with the treadle, for approximately $50, which was half the price of anything similar.
1875 - Alexander Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson had been working on the "harmonic telegraph". In the transmitter room, Watson had been trying to free a reed that had been too tightly wound to the pole of its electromagnet, when it produced a twang. Bell, who had been working in the receiving room heard the twang. He realized that now his dream of speech transmission must be a possibility, for the complex overtones and timbre of the twang he had just heard had a lot in common with the sound of the human voice. The next day, they continued tinkering with their experiment, anxious to achieve more ambitious results.
1896 - The first radio patent was issued to Guglielmo Marconi in England for the radio.
1928 - In 1928, Kraft's Velveeta Cheese was invented. It was packaged using the 1921 invention of a tinfoil lining that could house the cheese inside a wooden box. Its special cooking properties quickly caught on. When melted, it was as smooth as velvet (hence its name), and it would never curdle when heated.
1954 - The first test of a VTOL airplane takes place. It was known as a "Tail Sitter," but as a prototype to test the concept, its glory flared, and faded in a matter of months.
1964 - Lal Bahadur Shastri elected prime minister.
1990 - Union Government set up a tribunal to settle the Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu & Karnataka.
Born
1921 - Satyajit Ray, writer, filmmaker.
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, composer.
1955 - Nandan Nilekani, Indian entrepreneur and politician.
1956 - Mani Ratnam, film director, screenwriter and producer. He made famous films like Rosa, Bombay and Dil Se.
1987 – Sonakshi Sinha, actor.
RIP
1988 - Raj Kapoor, famous film actor, director, and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee.
2004 - Dom Moraes, writer, and poet.
You may have known...
The Beatles' first band name was The Quarrymen. They also briefly changed their name to Johnny and the Moondogs.
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