Important Events of December – 12
December 12 – December 12 is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 19 days remaining until the end of the year.
Delhi Became the Capital of India
To assuage the feelings of the nationalists, the British government decided to shift its capital from Calcutta to Delhi in the year 1911. Interestingly, Lord Curzon, who was the Viceroy at the time of division of Bengal, was critical of the move to shift British capital to Delhi. Two British architects were put to work to create an area that was suited to the British taste and liking. New Delhi thus came into existence with architecture and planning done by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker. It was on 13 February 1931 that Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India declared New Delhi as the capital of India. The city has been serving as the capital of the country since then.
First Wireless Transmission was sent
On December 12, 1901 Marconi sends first wireless transmission over 2000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada . The transmission consisted of the Morse-code signal for the letter “s” which consists of three dots
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