Today’s Motto: ‘Don’t let your life feel like a test you didn’t study for’

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

On this day, Feb. 25……….

1616 – Pope Paul V reportedly summoned Galileo and in person, to warn him to abandon his assertion that the earth moves around the sun. If Galileo should not acquiesce, he would be imprisoned. The next day, 26 Feb 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.” (pic credit-X.com)
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 occurred at Grove Hill Harrow, England.
1902 – On this date (?) the first power-driven vacuum cleaner was built by Hubert Cecil Booth of London.
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 Aksai Chin . (The  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 thousands of square kilometres of land in Northern Kashmir and Ladakh).
1976 – India announces plan to penalise parents who have more than two children.

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

2023 – Turkey widens probe into buildings that collapsed during the Feb 6 earthquakes arresting 184 people, as the death toll passes 44,128 (including Syria, more than 50,000), with nearly two million people left homeless.

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, Bollywood, actor, singer and director. His roles in films like  Ghatak, Seven Years in Tibet, Bang Bang, Asoka, Baby, Agnipath, Pukar, Sanam Bewafa etc.. Mostly in Villain roles. He was awarded Padam Shri, and was nominsated for Filmfare award in 1996.
1974 – Divya Bharti, Bollywood actor who acted in Deewana, Vishwatma, Dil; ka Kya Kasoor, Dil; Ashna Hai etc. Was awareded Filmfare and Nandy Awards. (pic credit-Pinterest) .

1981 – Shahid Kapoor,Bollywood  actor. Son of legendary Pankaj Kapoor. (Nicknamed Sasha, he is the chocolate boy of Bollywood). Acted in films like  When We Met, Vivah, Kabir Singh, Padmavat, Jersey, Shandaar, Udta Punjab etc.     Was awarded Filmare 3 times, Zee Cinema and AIIFA awards.

RIP….
1586 – Birbal, renowned for extraordinary wit and one amongst the ‘Navratna’ of Emperor Akbar’s Court; died in a war with Usuf Jard Kabile. (pic credit-Wikipedia)
You may have known….
All the stars we see at night are bigger and brighter than the sun.

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