Motto for Today: ‘Tough times never last, but tough people do.’
As Everyday 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; We bring out a new feature for our viewers, on the historical importance of Each Day!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb.13… ….
1601 – John Lancaster leads first East India Company voyage from London.
1633 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition for professing the belief that the earth revolves around the sun. Enemies of Galileo had convinced Pope Urban VIII that the character Simplicio in the ‘Dialogue’ ineptly defending the Ptolemaic system, was a thinly veiled caricature of himself. A document was produced alleging that Bellarmine in 1616 forbade Galileo to discuss Copernican ideas in any way. He faced two charges: disobeying Bellarmine’s order and misleading censors who published his book. Humiliated and threatened with torture, Galileo had no choice but to admit guilt, and “abjure, curse and detest the aforesaid errors and heresies…”
1832 – First appearance of cholera in London.
1856 – East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
1875 – The first well-documented U.S. birth of quintuplets was five boys born at Watertown, Wisconsin, to Mrs. Edna Beecham Kanouse. Though the babies appeared normally developed, one was stillborn, three died within minutes of delivery, and the remaining one survived only a few hours. Their total birth weight was 10-lb 2-oz. The doctor, and the father who fetched him arrived after the birth, delayed by heavy snow. (Until the 28 May 1934 birth of the famous healthy Dionne quintuplets in Canada, the longest known survival of a quint was 55 days, born in Lisbon, Portugal).
1895 – A French patent was issued for the Cinématographe, a combined motion-picture camera and projector.
1922 – The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence.
1946 – The world’s first electronic digital computer, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was first demonstrated at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, by the late John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. The ENIAC machine occupied a room 30 by 50 feet. Its birth lay in WW II as a classified military project known only as Project PX. The ENIAC is historic because it laid the foundations for the modern electronic computing industry.
1959 – Barbie doll goes on sale.
2010 – A bombing at the German Bakery in Pune kills 10 and injures 60 more.
2011 – In Iran, opposition leaders plan a nationwide anti-government rally in an attempt to replicate the success of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
2018 – Israeli Police report recommends Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud and breach-of-trust charges. (He is now back as PM).
2020 – January 2020 was the hottest January in recorded history according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Born….
1879 – Sarojini Naidu “Nightingale of India”. She holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London.
1945 – Vinod Mehra, actor.
RIP….
2008 – Rajendra Nath actor.
2012 – Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Shahryar, lyricist.
You may have known….
For the first week of their lives tigers are completely blind. Half of them do not make it to adulthood.
{compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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