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Motto for Today: ‘It is a happy moment in life when you find the courage to let go what you…
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On this day, Feb.10.......
1846 - British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon. (The First Anglo-Sikh war began in late 1845, after a combination of increasing…
Motto for Today: ‘We cannot tailor-make the situations in life but we can tailor-make the…
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On this day, Feb.09........
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts. (The game was originally called "Mintonette". Morgan met James Naismith,…
Motto for Today: ‘An ordinary man worries about his aching feet. A creative man thinks up how…
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On this day, Feb.08.......
1802 - Banjo Clock: Simon Willard, of Grafton, Massachusetts, patented his eight-day “Improved Timepiece,” a wall clock that came to be…
Motto for Today: ‘You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.’
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On this day, Feb.07.......
1817 - The first public gas street light in the U.S. was lit (in Baltimore, Maryland).
1896 - X-rays were first used in UK to…
Motto for Today: Sometimes you have to distance yourself to see things more clearly.
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On this day, Feb.06.......
1918 - Britain grants women (30 and over) the right to vote.
1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific…
Motto for Today: ‘Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.’
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On this day, Feb.05.......
1825 - Housewife Hannah Lord Montague of Troy, New York took her scissors and created the first detachable collar on one of her…
Motto for Today: ‘If you focus too hard on what you want, you may lose sight of what you…
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On this day, Feb.04.......
1670 – Battle of Sinhagad.
1895 - The first rolling lift bridge opened over the Chicago River.
1938 - The animated film Snow White…
Motto for Today: ‘Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.’
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb.03........
1690 - 1st paper money in America issued.
1862 - As a boy of 15, Thomas Edison became the first publisher of a newspaper produced and…
Motto for Today: ‘The only way round is through.’
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On this day, Feb.02......
1046 - The weather turns especially cold throughout Europe. Monks note in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that "no man alive...could remember…
Motto for Today: ‘If you can imagine it, you can create it.’
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On this day, Feb.01.......
1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.
1811 - The Bell Rock Lighthouse was lit for the first time. It…
Motto for Today: ‘The wisest men follow their own direction.’
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On this day, Jan.31...
1893 - The trademark "Coca-Cola" was first registered in the United States Patent Office. (The name refers to two of its original…
Motto for Today: ‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in…
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On this day, Jan.30......
1844 - Richard Theodore Greener became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
1847 - The town of Yerba Buena…
Motto for Today: ‘There is no greater investment than self-growth.’
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On this day, Jan.29.......
1856 - Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria.
1886 - The first successful…
Motto for Today: ‘Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes,…
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On this day, Jan.28......
1846 - Battle of Aliwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab.
1878 - The first commercial telephone exchange in the U.S. was installed at New…
Motto for Today: ‘A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change…
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On this day, Jan.27.......
1880 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp he invented on 21 Oct 1879. Edison’s invention of the light…
Motto for Today: ‘If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.’
As each day is a new beginning in one's life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Books
Motto for Today: ‘Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.’
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On this day, Jan.25.......
1565 - Battle at Talikota: the Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar's army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India.
1840 -…
Google, Meta and GroupM content unit join together to launch new series on ‘Bharat ki Anant…
Mumbai: GroupM's Motion Content Group, in partnership with Google and Meta, has announced the launch of a new show,
"Jai Ho! Bharat Ki Anant Yatra," in collaboration with Optimum Television. The show, a tribute to the contribution that…
Motto for Today: ‘Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they…
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On this day, Jan24........
1848 - Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, California. This initiated the
California Gold Rush. Some nuggets of gold in native…
Motto for Today: ‘The best way to annoy your enemies is to forgive them.’
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On this day, Jan.23...
638 – Start of the Islamic Calendar.
1556 - Shaanxi Earthquake - deadliest ever recorded; kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China.…