- Hindi News
- National
- Today History Aaj Ka Itihas 23 December | World First Kidney Transplantation In United States Boston
One hour ago
- copy link
Today is a big day in medical history. The world’s first successful kidney transplant was performed 67 years ago on this day. Joseph Murray performed this operation at Peter Bent Hospital in Boston.
The idea of organ transplantation is not new. Before the 1950s, many major achievements had been made by scientists regarding organ transplantation, but no internal organ had been transplanted till now. Scientists were now working on transplanting an internal organ. If scientists were successful in doing this, then it was a big achievement.
Richard Harrick (left) and his twin brother Ronald.
Scientists considered the kidney the most suitable for transplant because there are 2 kidneys in the human body. Even if one kidney is removed, a person can still live. Kidney transplants were tried several times only after 1900, but each time the patient died due to one reason or the other. Because of this, the hopes of scientists about the transplant began to break.
On 23 December 1954, scientists got a major breakthrough in the field of transplant. Richard Harrick, 23, had kidney disease. Richard Harrick contacted doctors at a hospital in Boston. One good thing about Richard’s case was that he also had a twin brother, Ronald.
Because of this it was decided that Richard would be given kidney transplant of his twin brother. The team of Dr. Joseph Murray did a kidney transplant in an operation that lasted about 5 hours. This transplant was successful and Richard lived for 8 more years. The doctor who performed the surgery, Joseph Murray, was later awarded the Nobel Prize.
AK-47 maker Mikhail Kalashnikov’s death anniversary today
The AK-47 is probably the most widely used rifle in the world. Around 100 million different versions of the AK-47 have been used around the world. Today is the death anniversary of Mikhail Kalashnikov, who created it. He died on this day in 2013.
He was born in 1919 in Kurya, Soviet Union. He was so much in love with machines that he joined the army as a tank mechanic. Another hobby was to write poetry. Kalashnikov wrote poems throughout his life. His poems have also been printed in the form of 6 books.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the creator of the AK-47, died on 23 December 2013.
As a child, Kalashnikov and his family were deported from Kurya to Serbia. When Kalashnikov was in the seventh grade. He had come back to his home in Kurya after traveling for a thousand kilometers. At the age of 19, he joined the Russian army.
During the Second World War, Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941. More than 8.8 million soldiers of the Soviet Union were killed in this battle. Kalashnikov’s tank also caught fire. They were badly injured. During his recovery from injury, he started working in making weapons. In 1947, at the age of just 28, he made the Automatic Kalashnikov 47 ie AK-47. Automatic meant automatic and Kalashnikov was named after its creator, Mikhail Kalashnikov. This gun was made in 1947, so 47 was put at the end of the name.
It is said that the biggest feature of this rifle is its simplicity. It is easy to use, easy to repair, easy to maintain rifle. Its effectiveness is shown by the fact that 600 rounds can be fired in a minute from this rifle on full automatic setting.
Towards the end of his life, Kalashnikov said that if he had a chance to make something again, he would like to make something less dangerous than it, like a mower for farmers. However, when asked how do you sleep thinking that thousands of people are killed by your weapon, he replied, ‘I sleep very well, thank you.’
Story of the Messiah of the Farmers
Today is Farmer’s Day. Birthday of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh. He is said to be the biggest leader of the farmers. Chaudhary Charan Singh became the fifth Prime Minister of the country, but he had to resign only in 23 days. During the British rule in 1939, when the Congress government was formed in United Pradesh (present-day Uttar Pradesh), Charan Singh brought the Debt Redemption Bill to free the farmers from the clutches of moneylenders.
He brought the Zamindari Abolition Bill for the farmers while he was a minister in UP. He established the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) while being a minister at the Centre. Chaudhary Charan Singh could not get a chance to speak in Parliament as Prime Minister. It is said that if this messiah of the farmers had spoken in Parliament, if he had got some more time, then the fate of the farmers could have been reversed.
Due to which other important events the day of 23 December is remembered…
2010: Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Kerala K. Karunakaran passed away.
2008: World Bank banned software company Satyam.
2004: PV Narasimha Rao, the tenth Prime Minister of India, passed away.
2000: Noor Jahan, an actress and singer who worked in Indian and Pakistani cinema, passed away.
1995: A fire broke out during a program in a school in Haryana’s Mandi Dabwali. About 400 people died in the accident.
1968: Successful launch of country’s first meteorological rocket ‘Maneka’.
1922: BBC Radio started broadcasting daily news.
1899: Famous novelist, story writer, revolutionary, journalist and editor Ramvriksha Benipuri was born.
.