Today’s Motto: ‘If you focus too hard on what you want…………
..............you may lose sight of what you deserve'
As Every Day 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.
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb. 04…….
1895 – The first rolling lift bridge opened over the Chicago River.
1932 – The first Winter Olympics was held in the US.
1938 – The animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released and had major success in the box-office, making more money than any other motion picture up till that point.
1931 – Banks continue to close across the US when depositors ask for their deposits back. Most small banks had large amounts invested in the stock market and with the crash of wall street in late 1929 many banks do not have sufficient funds left to meet current members’ deposits. The government is looking at schemes to bail the banks out and help consumer confidence.
1941 – Roy Plunkett received a U.S. patent for “Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers,” now known under the trade name Teflon. (The invention was by accident, when on 6 Jun 1938, Plunkett had discovered a lining of the solid polymer had resulted when he examined the inside of containers that had stored tetrafluoroethylene gas under pressure).
1948 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from British rule and becomes an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1948 – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) banned.
1948 – R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, the first Finance Minister of India announces nationalization of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
1951 – The longest operation in medical history, taking four days, began in Chicago to remove a huge ovarian cyst from 58-year old Mrs. Gertrude Levandowski. Over a period of ten years, she had increased in weight to 616-lb and reached 9-ft in circumference. She had developed a huge ovarian cyst, causing a bad heart condition as it pressed against her heart. Dr. M.S. Roberts tapped the cyst, draining fluid slowly, 120 drops a minute, to slowly reduce its pressure on her heart. Some 200-lb of fluid were removed in four days. Then the remaining 100-lb cyst, the size of bushel-basket, was removed. Her weight dropped to 308-lb after the operation.
1957 – 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York).
1959 – This first day of the invention of the Barbie Doll. This doll was created by Ruth Handler, 
who was one of the founders of the Mattel Company. Barbie was named after Ruth’s daughter. (Later on, when the Ken doll was made, it was named after Ruth’s son).
1969 – The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded.
1990 – Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
2006 – Following the publishing of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad Muslim protesters torched and destroyed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. And in Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and burning German and Danish flags.
2014 – Satya Nadella succeeds Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft.
2023 – Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by US fighter jets off the US eastern seaboard, after drifting across the US for days and igniting a political storm.
Born….
1922 – Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, legendary Indian Classical Singer of Tanpura and vocal.. Sang for films like Basant Bahar, Birbal My Brother, Was awarded Bharat Ratna in 2008. (pics credit-Karnataka.com and Wikipedia)
1924 – Kocheril Raman Narayan, 10th President of India.
1974 – Urmila Matondkar, Bollywood actor, acted in Rangeela, Judai, Masoom, Kunwara, Daud etc. Was nominated to Filmfare award 4 times and won it in 2004 for film Bhoot (pic credit-Facebook)
RIP….
1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician who collaborated with Albert Einstein to develop a theory of statistical quantum mechanics, now called Bose-Einstein statistics.
2001 – Pankaj Roy, cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman, he is best known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs, together with Vinoo Mankad, against New Zealand at Chennai. The record stood until 2008.
2002 – Bhagwan Dada, versatile comedy actor of Hindi cinema. Acted in films like Albela,
Bhagam Bham, Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje etc.
Titbits….
1998 – Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium.
2013 – The government of France has overturned a two-hundred year law that banned women from wearing trousers. The law had effectively been out of use for several years as people just ignored the law. However the change would make it formally legal for women to wear trousers.
You may have known….Before ‘’Say Cheese’ became the norm for getting people to smile, the photographers told people to ‘Say Prunes’. 
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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