Today’s Motto: ‘A patient waiter is not a loser’
As Every Day 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.
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) voting right.
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). 
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen.
1954 – Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India.
1959 – Jack S. Kilby filed for a U.S. patent on his invention of “Miniaturised Electronic Circuits.” This described the manufacturing method for the integrated circuit chips that revolutionised computers, calculators and other electronic devices.
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 one hand only, 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….
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915 – Kavi Pradeep, poet (real name Ramchandra Narayanji Dwivedi). He wrote many patriotic songs, best known for ‘Aye mere watan ke logo’ sung by legendary Lata Mangeshkar.
1983 – Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, cricketer (pic credit-OnManorama).
RIP….
1804 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist, clergyman and political theorist who discovered the element oxygen (pic credit-Wikipedia).
1931 – Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, co-founder of ‘Swaraj Party’, political leader and barrister and father of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first PM of India. (pic credit-Asian Age).
1932 – Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, founder of Tata empire..
1976 – Ritwik Kumar Ghatak, film director, screenwriter and playwright. HIs cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality, partition and feminism.
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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