Facts. History. Tank Medium Mark A (Whippet) Tank Medium Mark A (Whippet) Witold J. Lawrynowicz Col. Ernest D. Following the first action of the British Mark I tanks, on the Somme on September 23, 1916, the Tank Supply Department turned its attention to future tank designs. The idea of a cavalry type tank was presented and accepted by the senior staff officers, including Col. Production Whippet was developed from the "Tritton No. 2 Light Machine", but with several significant simplifications. Whippet had a crew of three: a commander, a driver and gunner; sometimes a second gunner was taken in order to better utilize 4 machine guns. The production of the Whippet tanks began in the fall of 1917, and the first vehicles were delivered to the Tank Corps in March of 1918.
The 3 Tank Battalion received tanks in Bray-sur-Somme on March 21, just at the beginning of the operation Michael. Company X, detached from the 3 Tank Battalion, gained total victory over a German infantry on April 24 at Amiens. . ~ Witold J. American Plains. Gandhi assassinated — History.com This Day in History — 1/30/1948. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. Born the son of an Indian official in 1869, Gandhi's Vaishnava mother was deeply religious and early on exposed her son to Jainism, a morally rigorous Indian religion that advocated nonviolence. Gandhi was an unremarkable student but in 1888 was given an opportunity to study law in England.
In 1891, he returned to India, but failing to find regular legal work he accepted in 1893 a one-year contract in South Africa. Settling in Natal, he was subjected to racism and South African laws that restricted the rights of Indian laborers. Gandhi later recalled one such incident, in which he was removed from a first-class railway compartment and thrown off a train, as his moment of truth. From thereon, he decided to fight injustice and defend his rights as an Indian and a man. Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. History. Russian History.
Did Queen Hatshepsut Moisturize Herself to Death? Corpus delicti? Hatshepsut's tiny flask of lotion contained a cancer-causing tar residue. credit: Barbara Frommann/University of Bonn Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's greatest female pharaoh, might have moisturized herself to death, according to controversial new research into the dried up contents of a cosmetic vial. Researchers at the University of Bonn, Germany, found a highly carcinogenic substance in a flask of lotion housed at the University's Egyptian Museum.
The vessel, which featured an inscription saying it belonged to Hatshepsut, was long believed to have held perfume. "After two years of research, it is now clear that the flacon was a kind of skin care lotion or even medication for a monarch suffering from eczema," the University of Bonn said in a statement. The skin lotion's ingredients included large amounts of palm and nutmeg oil, polyunsaturated fats that can relieve certain skin diseases, and benzopyrene, an aromatic and highly carcinogenic hydrocarbon. The True Story of the Statue of Liberty. Tday in history Lindbergh baby stolen. TIME's Man of the Year List. 1066 and all that. Kasparov loses chess game to computer — History.com This Day in History — 2/10/1996.
On this day in 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Gary Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize. An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action on the Internet.
Kasparov had previously defeated Deep Thought, the prototype for Deep Blue developed by IBM researchers in 1989, but he and other chess grandmasters had, on occasion, lost to computers in games that lasted an hour or less. The February 1996 contest was significant in that it represented the first time a human and a computer had duked it out in a regulation, six-game match, in which each player had two hours to make 40 moves, two hours to finish the next 20 moves and then another 60 minutes to wrap up the game. Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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