Today’s Motto: ‘A hug fits all sizes’

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

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 discover the location of a bullet in a 12-yr-old boy’s wrist who shot himself the previous month. When the pellet could not be found on probing, it was identified embedded in the third carpo-metacarpal joint through X-ray.

1915 – The first wireless message sent from a moving train to a station was received.

1935 – Monopoly, which had been invented by Charles Darrow on 7 Mar 1933, was first marketed. It is primarily a game of barter, involving trading and bargaining.

1943 – Shoe rationing begins in US. (During

World War II, many items were rationed in the United States. Due to serious rubber shortage footwear made of rubber or with rubber soles was rationed or unavailable. Also, the military had a high need for leather, not just for shoes and combat boots but for those popular leather flight jackets. As a result, civilians made do with less).

1960 – Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea. The scrolls were in eleven caves in the immediate vicinity of the ancient settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the third oldest known surviving manuscripts.

1969 – Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (pic credit-The Courier-Journal) .

1984 – 12-year-old boy publicly identified only as “David,” born without immunity to disease, touched his mother for the first time after he was removed from a plastic “bubble”, where he had lived in a protective, germ-free environment in a Houston hospital. He died two weeks later on 22 Feb 1984.

1984 – The first untethered spacewalks were made by Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart. (pic credit-NASA)

1991 – The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.

1992 – Shalki’, the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy.

1999 – Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became only the second bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi (pic credit-The Statesman).

2018 – Armed groups release 300 child soldiers from Yambio, South Sudan according to UN.

2019 – First reports of poisonous homemade alcohol killing people in the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, will go on to kill about 100.

2021 – Himalayan glacier crashes into the Dhauliganga river, destroying a dam and causing a huge flood in Uttarakhand state, killing 26, leaving 150 missing.

Born….

1934 – Sujit Kumar Bollywood Actor, acted in many blockbuster films like Aaradhana, Avataar, Mere Jeevan Saathi, Haathi Mere Saathi, Amar Prem, Ittefaq etc. mostly in supporting roles (pic credit-IMDb).

1948 – Prakash Karat, Indian politician, was Gen. Secretary of Communist Party (Marxist) from 2005-2015. (pic credit-Wikipedia)

You may have known….

Every year there are two minutes that have 61 seconds.

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