Motto for Today: ‘Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.’
As each day is a new beginning in one's life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Books
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb.05…….
1825 – Housewife Hannah Lord Montague of Troy, New York took her scissors and created the first detachable collar on one of her husband’s shirts in order to reduce her laundry load to the collar only. Her husband showed his wife’s invention to other men around town. Their wives embraced this new invention. Merchants followed suit, and Troy, New York, became “Collar City” to the rest of America.
1861 – Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia.
1901 – Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot.
1918 – Thomas A. Edison was issued a U.S. patent for a “Starting and Current-Supplying System for Automobiles”
1918 – 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson.
1922 – DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Wallace publish the first Reader’s Digest magazine designed to provide abridged articles on a wide variety of subjects, for easy reading.
1929 – Earlier, athletes dig holes in the ground to get a firm foot-hold for starting. On this day, the first U.S. patent for starting blocks, titled “Foot Support,” was issued to George T. Bresnahan of Iowa City. He described his invention as “what might be termed a starting block” to be used on a running track or field.
1989 – The last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul.
1991 – The last of 1.2 Lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
2016 – Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities.
Born….
1388 – Sant Ravi Das, also called Sant Raidas
1630 – Guru Har Rai, 7th Sikh Guru.
1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, actor.
RIP….
2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation.
2010 – Sujit Kumar, actor.
You may have known….
A car thief in Florida was apprehended by police after he was cornered by crows.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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