Down memory lane
- POSTED ON: 31 Dec, 2021
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- POSTED BY: Madhuvanti S. Krishnan
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Several important anniversaries fall in 2022. Some have achieved a 50-year milestone; some a century. Here are a few of them.
Insulin was successfully administered for the first time
In the 1800s, a 10-year-old with Type 1 diabetes would rarely live beyond a year. Today, patients can expect to live up to 70 years on average. This was primarily due to the discovery of insulin by a team led by Frederick Banting, a scientist from Canada. A hundred years ago, on January 11, it was tested on 14-year-old Leonard Thompson, a patient at the Toronto Hospital who didn’t have very long to live. However, after two rounds of insulin injections, his blood sugar levels stabilised and he lived until 27 when he died of pneumonia.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
As the race for nuclear weapons began to heat up, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, 50 years ago, in an attempt to defuse the situation and to reduce the need to build more/newer weapons. It was signed on May 26 during the Moscow Summit by U.S. President Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
BBC founded
Formed by a group of leading wireless manufacturers including Marconi, daily broadcasting began in Marconi’s London studio, on November 14, 50 years ago. John Reith, a 33-year-old Scottish engineer, was appointed General Manager at the end of the same year. The BBC started its first daily radio service in London: 2LO. In January, five years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation was established.
Munich Olympic Massacre
During the Munich Olympics, 50 years ago, eight terrorists from Black September (a Palestinian terrorist group) took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage demanding the release of Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, founders, German Red Army Faction, and around 200+ Palestinians and non-Arabs jailed in Israel. Two members were killed. The Munich victims were honoured at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Tokyo Olympics.
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