Motto for Today: ‘The day is what you make it.’
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 the historical importance of Each Day!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb.11…….
660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
1531 – Henry VIII, king of England, recognized as supreme head of Church in England
following the schism with Rome.
1751 – The Pennsylvania Hospital, the first in America, received its first patient.
1808 – Judge Jesse Fell of Pennsylvania experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm. He developed a method to burn the stone coal without the use of forced air and his fireplace grate opened up the home heating market. He had found a cheap, clean burning fuel. As a result, that area of northeast Pennsylvania became an important coal mining area for generations.
1818 – Britishers captured the ‘Ajinkyatara’ fort which belonged to the Marathas.
1922 – Insulin treatment announced. The use of insulin to treat diabetes in a dog was announced in their first paper published on the subject by the Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting and his assistant Charles Best. Within a year, diabetics had hopes of living full and productive lives. Banting received a share of the Nobel Prize in 1923 for the work.
1942 – “Archie” comic book debuts.
1979 – Cellular Jail, which is situated at Andaman Nicobar Islands, was declared as a National Memorial.
1990 – Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa.
2011 – Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
2019 – Doctors competed against A.I. computers to recognize illnesses on magnetic resonance images of a human brain during a competition in Beijing last year. The human doctors lost.
2020 – Snow falls in Baghdad, Iraq, for only the second time in a century.
2021 – World’s second oldest person French nun Sister André’ celebrates her 117th birthday after surviving COVID-19 in Toulon.
Born….
1847 – Thomas Alva Edison, great scientist and inventor of electric light lamp.
1917 – T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary.
1957 – Tina Munim, actor.
RIP….
1942 – Jamnalal Bajaj, great industrialist, social reformer, freedom fighter and Gandhi-wadi.
1968 – Deendayal Upadhyaya, great philosopher, litterateur, social worker, thinker and founder of Jansangh.
1977 – Dr. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed the 5th President of India.
1993 – Kamal Amrohi, film producer, director and writer.
You may have known….
Sick whales do not die of disease. They become too weak to come to the surface and drown
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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