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Today’s Motto: ‘Results, not style, should be the focus’

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. 21…….

1811 – Humphry Davy introduced the name “chlorine” from the Greek word for “green” for the bright yellow green gas chemists then knew as oxymuriatic gas.

1842 – The first U.S. patent for a sewing machine was issued to John J. Greenough of Washington. It was designd for “Stitching all Kinds of Straight Seams.” The needle was gradually tapered to a point at each end, with an eye in the middle. It did not use thread from a bobbin of thread. Instead, the lengths of thread were inserted in the needle, similar in length to those used in hand sewing.

1858 – The first electrical burglar alarm installation in the U.S.

1866 – The first woman dentist in the U.S. to obtain a D.D.S. degree from a dental college graduated. Lucy B. Hobbs (Mrs. Taylor). Being a woman, Hobbs had been originally turned down by many schools.

1878 – The first U.S. telephone directory, listing about 50 names, was issued.

1902 – Dr. Harvey Cushing, the first US brain surgeon, performed his first brain operation.

1916 – One of World War I’s deadliest and longest battles, the Battle of Verdun, began with a German offensive.

1931 – Alka-Seltzer, an effervescent antacid and pain reliever first marketed. It originated after Hub Beardsley, the president of Miles Laboratories, during a severe flu epidemic in winter 1928, had visited a local newspaper and learned from the editor, Tom Keene, that the staff seemed to be resistant to the illness. Keene explained that at the first sign of illness, he treated staff members with a combination of aspirin and baking soda. This resulted in a tablet with aspirin and sodium bicarbonate as the main ingredients.

1947 – The Polaroid camera, with the first used self-developing film, was demonstrated. It produced a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds.

1958 – The first U.S. submarine to circumnavigate the world returned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It spent 228 days travelling about 25,000 miles while visiting ports in Asia, Africa and Europe.

1983 – More than 600 people were killed in Assam after student agitators protesting the immigration of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh attempted to stop state elections.  Accord was signed in 1985. (pic credit-Frntline-The Hindu)

1994 – Whirlpool Corporation began production of an energy efficient refrigerator that did not use freon. It had an efficiency 25% better than the U.S. law required. By removing freon, the destructive effect on ozone in the atmosphere by that chemical was eliminated.

2013 – 21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad.

2018 – Film star Kamal Haasan launches a new political party – Makkal Needhi Mayyam in Tamil Nadu state.

2021 – BJP issues resolution country had “defeated COVID under the able, sensitive, committed and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”; massive second wave hits two months later.

Born……

1901 – Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, longest serving Prime Minister of Russia, (1964-1980). He was Dy. PM before that for 4 years.

1988 – Vedhika Kumar, Romantic, exotic South Indian model, actor (pic credit-Gethu Cinema).

RIP….

1991 – Nutan, famous film celebrity. (She appeared in over 700 films nearly 4 four cdecades. Nutan holds the record of five wins of the Best Actress award at Filmfare, which was held only by her for over 30 years until it was  matched by her niece Kajol in 2011; she is overall the most-awarded actress in the female acting categories at Filmfare, with six awards alongside Jaya Bachchan).

1998 – Om Prakash, actor. (Born as Om Prakash Chibber, he used to play the role of Kamla in the stage play. Since his career began in 1942, he was a popular supporting actor from the 1950s until the 1980s).

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Our bones are five times stronger than steel.

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

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