1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1897 - Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1936 - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce is published
1946 - The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
1954 - For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.
1964 - Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturg
1971 - China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1984 - Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 & Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)
2011 - Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
Birthdays
Franklin Pierce - President USA (1804),
1837 - Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States), (d. 1923)
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1910/waals-bio.html
IIT JEE - http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.in/2008/02/ideal-gas-equation-van-der-waals.html
1888 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (d. 1955)
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1926 - Puttaparti Satya Sai Baba
1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian author and activist
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