Motto for Today: ‘You can do anything you set your mind to.’
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, 22 Feb….
1630 – Popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by an Indian named Quadequina who brought it in deerskin bags as his contribution at their first Thanksgiving dinner.
1903 – Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water.
1907 – 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London.
1918 – According to the documented world record tallest human Robert Pershing Wadlow was born in US. Shortly after graduating from high school, he was 8-ft 4-in tall. He grew to a final height, shortly before his death, of 8-ft 11.1-in. This unique size was attributed to an over active pituitary gland, which produced much higher than normal levels of growth hormone.
1946 – The first specific antibiotic (streptomycin) effective against tuberculosis was discovered.
1947 – Nehru welcomes British independence offer, invites Muslims to join at New Delhi.
1983 – 3000 die in communal clashes in Assam.
1995 – Bomb attack on train in Assam (27 soldiers killed).
1997 – Dolly the Sheep, world’s first cloned mammal (from an adult cell) is announced by the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
Born….
1873 – Sir Muhammad Ekbal, writer of song ‘Sare Jahan se Achha’.
1948 – Jayalalitha, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
1964 – Sooraj R Barjatya, screen writer.
RIP….
1944 – Kasturba Gandhi. (Passed away in British imprisonment in Aga Khan Palace at Pune).
1958 – Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom.
2014 – Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen set a new record for the highest number of Olympic medals awarded to a female Winter Olympics athlete after her gold medal at Sochi; Bjoergen has won ten Olympic medals over to date, including six golds.
You may have known….
The Shanay Timpishka River in the Amazon is boiling with temperatures hot enough to kill someone who fell in.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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