Motto for Today: ‘When you discover your own self-worth, you will lose interest in anyone else who doesn’t see it.’

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History! 

On this day, Feb.25…….

1616 – The Minutes of the Inquisition recorded that following the judgment by the Farher Theologians against the opinions of the mathematician Galileo on the heliocentric model, Pope Paul V ordered Cardinal Bellarmine to summon Galileo and in person, warn him to abandon his assertion that the earth moves around the sun. If Galileo were to refuse, an injunction would be issued that he should abstain completely from teaching, defending or discussing the doctrine. Further, if Galileo should not acquiesce, he would be imprisoned. The next day, 26 Feb 1616, Galileo was ordered by Bellarmine “to give up altogether the false doctrine… and if you should refuse.. you should be imprisoned.” Given such a choice, Galileo made a renouncement, but he knew that would not change the real facts of the Earth’s motion.

1836 – Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multi-shot firearm.
1837 – Thomas Davenport patented the first practical electrical motor as “an application of magnetism and electro-magnetism to propelling machinery.”
1859 – 1st use of “insanity plea” to prove innocence (US).

1862 – Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln.
1899 – The first petrol-fuelled car crash in which the driver died, occurred at Grove Hill Harrow, England.
1902 – On this date (?) the first power-driven vacuum cleaner was built by Hubert Cecil Booth of London. In 1901, Booth devised a filter bag system that made commercial vacuum cleaners practical. An early use of Booth’s machine was to clean the great blue coronation carpet under the throne at Westminster Abbey for the coronation of Edward VII.
1908 – 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens.
1910 – Dalai Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troops to British India. (In September 1908, the Dalai Lama was granted an audience with the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi. The emperor tried to stress Tibet’s subservient role, although the Dalai Lama refused to kowtow to him. He stayed in Beijing until the end of 1908.When he returned to Tibet in December 1908, he began reorganising the government, but the Qing sent a military expedition of its own to Tibet in 1910 and he had to flee to India).

1963 – Nehru refuses to recognize China-Pakistan border pact in New Delhi. (The Sino-Pakistan Agreement is a document between the governments of Pakistan and China establishing the border between those countries. It resulted in China ceding over 1,942 square kilometres (750 sq mi) to Pakistan and Pakistan recognizing Chinese sovereignty over hundreds of square kilometres of land in Northern Kashmir and Ladakh).
1976 – India announces plan to penalize parents who have more than two children.

2012 – World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries.

2019 – The National War Memorial is inaugurated in New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Born….
1894 – Meher Baba of Poona, Indian saint of Persian origin and gifted with psychic powers of prediction. The mystical teachings of this silent sage stressed love, self-inquiry and God consciousness.
1948 – Danny Denzongpa, actor.
1974 – Divya Bharti, actor.

1981 – Shahid Kapoor, actor.

RIP….
1586 – Birbal, renowned wit and one amongst the ‘Navratna’ of Emperor Akbar’s Court; died in a war with Usuf Jard Kabile.
Titbits….
1923 – Bread price in Berlin rises to 2,000 marks.
You may have known….
All the stars we see at night are bigger and brighter than the sun.

{Compiled by Lt. Gern. (R) Raj Kadyan}