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On this day, 07 Feb….

1817 – The first public gas street light in the U.S. was lit in Baltimore, Maryland.

1896 – First British X-ray – was used  by a German  physician Dr.  Gilman Frost,  to discover the location of a bullet in a 12-yr-old boy’s wrist who shot himself the previous month (pic credit-scantimes.mgh.harvard.edu).

1915 – The first wireless message sent from a moving train to a station was received.

1935 – Monopoly game was first marketed. It is primarily a game of barter, involving trading and bargaining.

1943 Shoe rationing begins in US. (To make up form serious war time shortage of footwear made of rubber or with rubber soles. was rationed or unavailable. The military had a high need for leather, not just for shoes and combat boots but for those popular leather flight jackets. As a result, civilians made do with less).

1960 – Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea. The scrolls were in eleven caves in the immediate vicinity of the ancient settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the third oldest known surviving manuscripts.

1984 – Bubble boy. 12-year-old boy publicly identified only as “David,” born without immunity to disease, touched his mother for the first time after he was removed from a plastic “bubble”, where he had lived in a protective, germ-free environment in a Houston hospital. (He died two weeks later on 22 Feb 1984).

1984 – The first untethered spacewalks were made by Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart (video  clip above courtsey-NASA).

1992 – Shalki’, the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy.

1999 – Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became only the second  bowler in Test history to take all Ten Wickets. against Pakistan in the second Test in Feroxeshah Kotla, Delhi. Kumble, also called ‘Jumbo’,  is the highest wicket taker for India. He has taken 619  Tests, 337 in ODIs wickets over 18 playing  years having played  132 Test and 271 ODIs.  He’s been a coach and commentator after hanging his boots (pic credit-Yahoo.com).

2005 – Britain’s Ellen MacArthur becomes the then fastest personto sail solo around the world, taking 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds.

2018 – All citrus fruit can be traced to the southeast foothills of the Himalayas, according to DNA study published in “Nature” magazine.

2021 – Himalayan glacier crashes into the Dhauliganga river, destroying a dam and causing a huge flood in Uttarakhand province (India), killing 26, leaving 150 missing.

Born: …….  1906 – Puyi, the 11th and last emperor of Chinese Quing (Manchu) dynasty. He was ruled as  king from 1908-12, was also called a Puppet Emperor of thje Japanese who controlled his  kingdom.  Quing dynasty ruled China from 1644 to 1912 AD.

1908 – Manmathnath Gupt – Indian marxist  revolutionary,  popular historian who was jailed for 14 years in 1926 at the age of 18 only for his writings and  participating in Kakori Train Robbery during  Freedom Movement.

1962 – Eddie Izzard. British actor, stand-up comedian.  He acted in Ocean’s Thirteen,  Valkyrie, My Super Girlfriend, Dress to Kill, Unrepeatable, Circle etc. Won 2 Primetime Emmy awards and a Tony award.

1993 – Srikanth Kidambi. One of the top Indian shuttlers,  former world No. 1 in 2018, the 2nd Indian after veteran Prakash Padukone. Kidambi won two Gold in 2016 South Asia Chamionship, a Silver in 2021 World Badminton Champ’ship and represented India in 2016 Rio Olympics.

You may have known….

In addition to Indian cotton textiles and steel industries;  wood, stone and ivory carvings, silk textiles, pottery, bronze, brass, silver and copper works, dyeing and calico printing were also famous throughout the world.

 

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