Today’s History: 125 years ago on this day Marconi got the patent for the radio, this invention gave birth to the communication revolution in the world

There was a very famous physicist from Italy – Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi thought of transmitting messages from one place to another through electromagnetic waves. For this he made a device, through which messages could be sent from one place to another for some distance. The device had a sender and a receiver. Electromagnetic waves would be released from the sender and the receiver would catch them.

It is said that Marconi did not get much attention in his country. So in 1896 Marconi went to England with this device. There he met Sir William Price, who, like Marconi, was working on wireless telegraphy. Marconi made different experiments with this device and each time managed to send the signal to a greater distance than before. Marconi applied for a patent for the radio in 1896 and was granted a patent on this day.

Marconi with his own instrument.

In the year 1899, Marconi did the same thing. This year he succeeded in sending a wireless signal between France and England. By now it was completely proved that these radio waves can be used for communication, but scientists still believed that radio waves could not travel very far due to the roundness of the earth. Marconi determined that he would prove this thing wrong. He decided that he would send these waves across the Atlantic Ocean.

For this, a mound located on the seashore in St. John’s, Canada was chosen and here Marconi installed his instrument. On the other hand messages were sent from Poldhu in England to Canada. In December 1901, a message sent from England was successfully captured by Marconi’s antenna and this experiment revolutionized the communication in the world. Today, all the media around the world work on the principle of Marconi. In 1909 Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize for this invention.

1757: Assassination of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal

Although the East India Company had come to India for trade, but seeing the weakening power of the Mughals, the Company gradually started taking over the territories of India. From the point of view of trade, Bengal was a favorite destination for both the British and the French. Both were adopting different tactics to capture here.

In 1740, Alivardi Khan separated Bengal from the Mughal Empire and became its Nawab. After his death, Siraj-ud-Daula sat on the chair of the Nawab of Bengal. Here, the British were building fortifications at different places in Bengal. On 20 June 1756, Siraj-ud-Daula attacked Fort William near the Hooghly River and drove the British from here. During this, 146 people were locked in a room, out of which more than 100 died the next day.

Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah.

The British made preparations to remove Siraj-ud-daula from their path. For this, he lured Siraj-ud-Daulah’s general, Mir Jafar, to make him the Nawab of Kolkata and took him to his side. On 27 June 1757, there was a war between the British army and Siraj-ud-Daulah’s army in Plassey, but General Mir Jafar betrayed Siraj-ud-Daulah and he lost the war. Siraj-ud-daula was taken prisoner and the British made Mir Jafar the Nawab of Bengal. On this day Siraj-ud-Daulah was brutally murdered by the people of Mir Jafar. His body was tied on an elephant and carried around the city.

1990: 1426 Haj pilgrims were killed in a stampede during Haj

Those who believe in Islam have to perform 5 duties, one of which is Hajj. Every year millions of Muslims from all over the world visit the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina to perform this duty. On this day in 1990, 1426 people died in a stampede during the Haj pilgrimage. This accident is counted among the worst accidents during Hajj.

In September 2015, 717 people were killed in a stampede during Haj.

This incident happened when Haj pilgrims were passing through a tunnel. During this, some people stopped in the tunnel for a while, due to which the crowd started gathering at the mouth of the tunnel, because it was very hot outside the tunnel, so people started hurrying to go into the tunnel. In this haste, a stampede broke out inside the tunnel in which 1426 people were buried and died. It is said that the fans installed for ventilation in the tunnel were also turned off. This also caused a stampede. Most of the people who died were from the continent of Asia.

The day of July 2 is also remembered because of these important events in history.

2002: Steve Fossett circumnavigated the world by balloon. He is the first person to do so.

1972: India-Pakistan signed the Simla Agreement on this day after Pakistan’s crushing defeat in the 1971 war. The agreement was signed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on the Indian side and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on the Pakistani side.

1962: Sam Walton started Walmart. Today Walmart is the largest retail store in America.

1962: Renowned author Ernest Hemingway committed suicide by shooting himself. However, his wife said that while cleaning the gun, he got shot.

1940: Subhash Chandra Bose was arrested by the British.