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On this day, Feb.26…….
1797 – Bank of England issues first £1-note.
1857 – Sepoys of the 19th Native Infantry at Berhampur (West Bengal) refuses to use ‘new cartridges made with cow fat’ in rifle practice.
1895 – Michael Joseph Owens of Ohio patented a glass-blowing machine. He later became a co-founder of the glass industry. The world’s first fully automatic machine he invented was a revolution in glass bottle making.
1907 – U.S. Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500.
1910 – Gandhi supports the African People’s Organisations resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in South Africa
as a day of mourning in protest against the South Africa Acts on disenfranchisement of Indians, ‘Coloureds’ and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa.
1935 – The feasibility of radar (Radio Detection and Ranging) was demonstrated to Air Ministry officials at Daventry, England, by Robert Watson-Watt, a Scottish physicist. Earlier, while working on methods of using radio-wave detection to locate thunderstorms in order to provide warnings to airmen, he realised that it could be used to track enemy aircraft for air defence. The test showed that a RAF Heyford bomber flying in the main beam of a BBC short-wave radio transmitter gave back reflected signals to the ground on three occasions that the aircraft passed overhead. By 1939, the outbreak of WW II, the military installed a chain of radar stations along the east and south coasts of England to prevent a
German invasion.
1936 – Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche’s “Volkswagen”.
1975 – Bhanubhai Shah established the first kite museum of India called ‘Shankar Kendara’ in Ahmedabad.
2014 – NASA announces that its Kepler space telescope has discovered 715 planets in other solar systems, bringing the instrument’s new-planet tally to 961; four of the latest discoveries are thought to have an orbit favourable to habitation, but the distance of these planets makes exploration impossible with current technology.
2019 – India launches air strikes on terrorist camps in Balakot, Pakistan.
2019 – City of Venice in Italy introduces a day visitors tax.
2022 – Scientists publish findings into “lost” continent Balkanatolia, that linked southern Europe with Asia, providing passageway for animal migrations 35 to 38 million years ago.
Born….
1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, American physician and health-food pioneer whose development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry.
1922 – Manmohan Krishna, actor.
1936 – Manmohan Desai, film producer and director.
RIP….
1966 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar “Veer”, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer. He was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists.
You may have known….
Poverty stricken English teenagers were shorter than their counterparts during the 1700s.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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