Motto for Today: ‘It is a happy moment in life when you find the courage to let go what you cannot change.’

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

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 disorder in the Sikh empire following the death of Ranjit Singh in 1839 and provocations by the British East India Company led to the Sikh Khalsa Army invading British territory).

1859 – General Horsford defeats Begum of Oudh and Nana Sahib.

1914 – In accordance with the understanding reached by General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, 60 passive resistance prisoners released from Pietermaritzburg Prison; 40 passive resisters released in Durban, 8 in Newcastle, 11 in Port Elizabeth.

1915 – US President Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans.

1916 – Conscription begins in Britain. (Conscription in the UK has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, the second was from 1939 to 1960, with the last conscripted soldiers having left the service in 1963. Known as Military Service from 1916 to 1920, the system of conscription from 1939 to 1960 was called National Service, but, between 1939 and 1948, it was often referred to as “war service”).

1931 – Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.

1933 -Adolf Hitler proclaims end of Marxism.

1958 – Radar signals were bounced off the planet Venus by MIT engineers at Lincoln Laboratories in experiments conducted during an inferior conjuction with Venus.

1961 – The Niagara Falls hydroelectric project, the largest (at the time) hydroelectric facility in the Western world, was officially opened.
1979 – Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
1992 – Andaman and Nicobar Islands opened for foreign travellers.
1999 – P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men’s and women’s singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.

2021 – Astronomers confirm the planetoid named Farfarout as the most distant orbiting the Sun, almost four times more distant than Pluto.
RIP….
1921 – Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and nobel prize winner. He had discovered X-Ray.
1974 – Pahadi Sanyal, actor.

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