Motto for Today: Sometimes you have to distance yourself to see things more clearly.
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
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
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 hurricane.
1944 – American obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr John Rock with Miriam F. Menkin fertilised the first human egg in a test tube. (Rock is best known as a developer of the birth control pill).
1954 – Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India.
1971 – Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard took a few shots at some golf balls while on the moon. He attached a 6-iron golf club to the end of a sample collecting tool. Despite thick gloves and a stiff suit that forced him to swing the club with only one hand, he hit two golf balls. The first landed in a nearby crater. The second was hit squarely, and in the one-sixth gravity of the moon, Shepard said it travelled “miles and miles and miles.” The golf club is on display at the U.S. Golf Association headquarters.
1979 – Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto.
2015 – Scientists report that climate change may be influenced by the carbon dioxide released by undersea volcanoes, which have been assumed until now to have a negligible effect; further studies are needed to assess the degree of impact.
2019 – Honeybees are able to add and subtract and understand concept of zero according to research from RMIT University in Australia.
Born….
1915 – Kavi Pradeep, poet (born Ramchandra Narayanji Dwivedi). He wrote many patriotic songs, best known for ‘Aye mere watan ke logo’.
1983 – Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, cricketer.
RIP….
1804 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist, clergyman and political theorist who discovered the element oxygen.
1931 – Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, revolutionary, founder of ‘Swaraj Party’, political leader and barrister.
1932 – Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist.
You may have known….
Romans threw weaponised lawn darts called “plunbata” over the heads of their enemies.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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