November 8

German Scientists Discover X-rays

  On this day in the year 1895, a mechanical physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible. Rontgen’s discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

  

  X-ray is an an electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light. It is a photographic or digital image of the internal composition of something, especially a part of the body, produced by X-rays being passed through it and being absorbed to different degrees by different materials.

  Rontgen holed up in his lab and conducted a series of experiments to better understand his discovery. He learned that X-rays penetrate human flesh but not higher-density substances such as bone or lead and that they can be photographed.

  Rontgen’s discovery was tagged a medical success and X-rays became an important diagnostic tool in medicine, allowing doctors to see inside the human body for the first time without surgery. In 1897, X-rays were first used on a military battlefield, during the Balkan War, to find bullets and broken bones inside patients.

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

John F. Kennedy Elected President

  In the year 1960 on the 8th of November, John F. Kennedy became the most youthful man ever to be chosen leader of the United States, barely beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was likewise the first Catholic to become president. The campaign was hard battled and unpleasant. Just because, presidential applicants occupied with broadcast discusses. Numerous eyewitnesses accepted that Kennedy's balanced and beguiling exhibition during the four discussions had the effect in the last vote. Issues, be that as it may, likewise assumed a job in the political race, and the country's international strategy was a significant bone of dispute among Kennedy and Nixon. 

  

  This was the first election in which all fifty states took part in, and the last in which the District of Columbia did not. It was also the first election in which an current president was ineligible to run for a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. It is also the last election where the losing candidate won Ohio.

Post Election Gazette

Abolition Of The Death Penalty Act In The U.K

  The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It abolished the death penalty for murder in Great Britain (the death penalty for murder survived in Northern Ireland until 1973). The Act replaced the penalty of death with a mandatory sentence of imprisonment for life.

  The Act was introduced to Parliament as a private member's bill by Sydney Silverman MP. The Act provides that charges of capital murder at the time it was passed were to be treated as charges of simple murder and all sentences of death were to be commuted to sentences of life imprisonment. The legislation contained a sunset clause, which stated that the Act would expire on 31 July 1970 "unless Parliament by affirmative resolutions of both Houses otherwise determines". This was done in 1969 and the Act was made permanent.

  The Act left four capital offences: high treason, "piracy with violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under military law. The death penalty was not finally abolished in the United Kingdom until 1998 by the Human Rights Act and the Crime and Disorder Act.

  The Act replaced the Homicide Act 1957, which had already reduced hangings to only four or less per year. No executions have occurred since the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, with the last executions in the United Kingdom carried out on 13 August 1964, when Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans were hanged for murdering John Alan West during a theft four months earlier, a death penalty crime under the 1957 Act.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AGAINST DEATH PENALTY

Gordon Ramsey Was Born

  Gordon James Ramsay was born on the 8 of November in the year 1966. He is a British chef, restaurateur, writer, television personality and food critic. He was conceived in Johnstone, Scotland, and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His eateries have been granted 16 Michelin stars altogether and as of now hold a sum of seven.

  His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held three Michelin stars since 2001. Showing up on the British TV miniseries Boiling Point in 1998, by 2004 Ramsay had gotten extraordinary compared to other known and most compelling gourmet specialists in the UK.

Gordon Ramsey (British Chef)

  This day years back brought forth so many things that makes up how we live today and how free we are. Each day has its own Uniqueness and so do you. More On This Day Posts coming your way...