Motto for Today:’ Broken crayons still colour’
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 historical importance of Each Day!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb.16……….
600 – Pope Gregory, the Great, decrees saying “God bless You” is the correct response to a sneeze.
1659 – 1st known cheque (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey).
1838 – Kentucky (US) passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions.
1846 – Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India. {The Sikhs lost. Gulab Singh, the effective ruler of Jammu, negotiated terms for surrender. By the Treaty of Lahore, the Sikhs ceded the valuable agricultural lands of the
Jullundur Doab (between the Sutlej and Chenab Rivers) to the East India Company and allowed a British Resident at Lahore with subordinates in other principal cities. These Residents and Agents would indirectly govern the Punjab, through Sikh Sardars. In addition, the Sikhs were to pay an indemnity of 1.2 million pounds. Since they could not readily find this sum, Gulab Singh was allowed to acquire Kashmir from the Punjab by paying 750,000 pounds to the East India Company}.
1852 – Studebaker founded. Converting from making horse carriages to automobiles, the company also made aircraft in World War 2. The company was absorbed by the Packard Corporation in 1954.
1927 – Rail service started between India and Nepal.
1937 – Dr. Wallace Carothers, who invented nylon, received a patent for synthetic fibre.
1946 – The first commercial helicopter, the four-seat Sikorsky S51, single rotor helicopter had its maiden flight. The design established would be followed by others to this day. It could carry 3 passengers over 250 miles at a speed of 100 miles per hour.
1953 – First man-made diamonds. Diamond crystals, the size of grains of sand, were produced in Sweden in a high pressure press by subjecting graphite to 83,000 atmospheres pressure and about 2000°C for an hour.
1968 – Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1969 – Mirza Ghalib centenary stamp released.
1994 – Military museun established at Ahmednagar.
1994 – The first successful operation on a foetus without surgically opening the woman’s body was announced by Dr. Ruben Quintero, US.
2005- The Kyoto Protocol comes into force following its ratification by Russia committing industrialized nations to limit and reduce greenhouse gases.
2019 – India’s new high-speed train the Vande Bharat Express breaks down on its first return trip on Delhi to Varanasi route.
Born….
1920 – IS Johar, actor.
1978 – Wasim Jaffer, cricketer.
RIP….
1944 – Dadasaheb Phalke, remembered as the ‘Father of Indian Cinema’. He produced India’s first feature Film, ‘Raja Harishchandra’. He was Director, Producer, Writer, Editor & Laboratorian. In his career of 19 years, he made 95 full-length movies and 26 short movies. Dada Saheb Phalke Award issued by Government of India is given in his memory.
You may have known….
11% of the world population eats with their left hand.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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