Motto for Today: ‘You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.’
As Everyday makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book; We bring out a new feature for our viewers, on historical importance of Each Day !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb.07…….
1817 – The first public gas street light in the U.S. was lit (in Baltimore, Maryland).
1896 – X-rays were first used in UK to discover the location of a bullet in a 12-yr-old boy’s wrist who shot himself the previous month. When the pellet could not be found on probing, it was identified embedded in the third carpo-metacarpal joint through X-ray.
1915 – The first wireless message sent from a moving train to a station was received.
1935 – Monopoly, which had been invented by Charles Darrow on 7 Mar 1933, was first marketed. It is primarily a game of barter, involving trading and bargaining.
1943 Shoe rationing begins in US. (During World War II, many items were rationed in the United States. Due to serious rubber shortage footwear made of rubber or with rubber soles was rationed or unavailable. Also, the military had a high need for leather, not just for shoes and combat boots but for those popular leather flight jackets. As a result, civilians made do with less).
1960 – Old handwriting found in Qumran, near the Dead Sea. The scrolls were in eleven caves in the immediate vicinity of the ancient settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the third oldest known surviving manuscripts.
1984 – The first untethered spacewalks were made by Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart.
1991 – The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
1992 – Shalki’, the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy.
1999 – Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became only the second bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi.
2018 – Armed groups release 300 child soldiers from Yambio, South Sudan according to UN.
2018 – All citrus fruit can be traced to the southeast foothills of the Himalayas, according to DNA study published in “Nature”.
2019 – First reports of poisonous homemade alcohol killing people in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, (will go on to kill about 100).
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{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Raj Kadyan}
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