Today’s Motto: ‘For every enemy there is a friend’
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. 26…….
1797 – Bank of England issues first £1-note.
1878 – The French scientist, Sédillot corresponded with Littré concerning certain micro-organisms, and a suitable word to name them. Littré replies in a letter on this date that he chooses the word “microbe,” rather than “microbia,” 
even though it was coined from two Greek words that together would mean “short-lived” rather than “small life.” 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 (pic credit-Ohio County Public Library).
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 Alexander Watson-Watt, a Scottish physicist (pic credit-Science Museum/SSPL)
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 alleged terrorist camps in Balakot within Pakistan (Wng Commander Abhonandan Varthman & IAF Chief BS Dhanoa pic credit-the Logical India).
Born….
1922 – Mamohan Krishna, popular Bollywood actor. He acted in Bees Saal Baad, Dhool ka Phool, Noorie, Railway Platform, Ladla, Sanjh aur Savera, Masoom, Dharmputra. Sehra etc. Awared Flimfare Award in 1960 (pic credit-
Indian Film History).
1936 – Manmohan Desai, famous film producer and director. He did films like Dharmveer, Coolie, Amar Akbar Antony, Mard, Naseeb, Parvarish, Sacha Jhutha, Suhaag etc. Was nominated for Filmfare award once but won none (pic credit-Bollywood Direct Museum).
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 (Pic credit-Wikipedia).
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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