Motto for Today: ‘To be the best, we must be able to handle the worst.’
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 historical importance of Each Day!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb.14…….
1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his photograph taken (by Matthew Brady).
1876 – Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.
1899 – US Congress begins using voting machines
1924 – IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson.
1933 – The first telephone speaking clock came into operation in the Paris area.
1971 – Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House.
1978 – The first “micro on a chip” (microprocessor) was patented.
1984 – Six-year-old Stormie Jones from Texas became the world’s first heart-liver double transplant recipient. Followed by drug treatment, her cholesterol level dropped to the normal range. She lived until age 13. On 11 Nov 1990, she died of a possible heart infection.
1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 m damages for Bhopal disaster.
1996 – President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation.
1998 – 13 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
2003 – Dolly, the world-famous first cloned sheep, was put down, at age about 6½ years. She had been suffering from a progressive lung disease.
2019 – Explosive-packed vehicle rams CRPF convoy in Pulwama (Kashmir) killing at least 40. Islamic group Jaish-e-Mohammad claim responsibility.
Born….
1483 – Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, founder of Mughal dynasty in India.
1914 – Jan Nisar Akhtar, poet.
1922 – Bhimsen Joshi, singer and composer.
1933 – Madhubala (Mumtaz Jehan Dehlavi), actor. (She is considered to be one of the most beautiful actresses to have worked in the industry and is highly regarded as “The Venus of Indian Cinema” and “The Beauty with Tragedy”).
1952 – Smt. Sushma Kaushal Swaraj, Indian Foreign Minister.
You may have known….
In 2009 Microsoft patented a process for stopping hurricanes.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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