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On this day, Feb.03……..
1690 – 1st paper money in America issued.
1862 – As a boy of 15, Thomas Edison became the first publisher of a newspaper produced and sold on a moving train.
1879 – The first practically usable incandescent filament electric light bulb was demonstrated by its inventor Joseph Wilson Swan.
1919 – The first meeting of the League of Nations was held. This organisation was later replaced by the present-day United Nations (UN). The goals of the UN are very similar to the goals of the League of Nations.
1928 – Simon Commission, a group of seven British Members of Parliament comes to India to study constitutional reform in Britain’s most important colonial dependency. (On arrival in Bombay, the Commission met with black flag protests and a strike. Similar protests occurred in every major Indian city that the Commission visited. One protest against the Simon Commission became infamous. On 30 October 1928, the Commission arrived in Lahore where the protest was led by Indian nationalist Lala Lajpat Rai. In order to make way for the Commission, the local police did a lathi charge. The police were particularly brutal towards Lala Lajpat Rai, who died later on 17 November 1928. His death was widely believed to have been caused by the mental trauma of the beating).
1966 – Three days after its takeoff, the unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft landed safely on the moon. It was the first ever soft landing on another celestial body, and opened the way for manned trips to the moon, by removing doubts lest the surface was unsafe dusty quicksand. A TV camera with a revolving mirror system enabled Luna 9 to take pictures, including panoramic views of the lunar landscape and closer views of nearby rocks, which were transmitted back to earth until 6 Feb when the batteries ran out and contact with the spacecraft was lost.
1984 – World’s first baby, conceived through embryo transplant, was born in California.
1998 – The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code.
2009 – Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been made a knight of the Légion d’Honneur, which is France’s highest civilian award. (The best-selling author’s great-grandfather was French. In fluent French, she apologized to the crowd for giving Potter’s evil nemesis a French name).
Born….
1905 – Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist.
RIP….
1969 – Thiru Conjeevaram Natrajan Annadurai “Anna”, a great writer, editor, orator, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the commencer of Dravid Movement.
You may have known….
The largest volcanic eruption recorded by humans occurred in April 1815, the peak of the explosion of Mount Tambora. The explosion is said to have been so loud it was heard on Sumatra Island, more than 1,200 miles away. The death toll from the eruption was estimated at 71,000 people, and clouds of heavy ash descended.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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