Today’s Motto: Always start with the belief as if it were impossible to fail

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

On this day, Feb.15  ……. ….

399 – Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth and of impiety (pic credit-iStocks.com).

1758 – Mustard was first advertised for sale in erica. The seller claimed that he had brought the art with him from London.

1842 – 1st adhesive postage stamps in US.
1903 – The first teddy bear was introduced in America. It proved enormously

popular with the public.
1936 – Hitler announces building of Volkswagens
1951 – The first atomic reactor to be used in medical therapy treated its first patient at the Brookhaven  National Laboratory, Upton, New York.
1954 – An ocean exploration depth record of 13,287 feet was set when two French Navy officers, Lt. Commander Georges Houot and Lt. Pierre Willm, reached the Atlantic Ocean floor, 120 miles southwest of Dakar, Senegal, Africa. The French research submersible they used was untethered and self-propelled, designed by Auguste Piccard, and built by the French Navy. This exceeded Otis Barton’s 1948 diving record of 4,500 feet off the coast of California in a tethered modified bathysphere.
1970 – A U.S. patent was issued for a “Soft Shell Mushroom Shaped Heart” to the inventor Willem J Kolff of Salt Lake City, Utah. (He also invented an artificial kidney dialysis machine).
1998 – Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open.
2013 – In 2013, a meteor exploded in the sky over Russia’s Ural Mountains. The intense shock wave injured a reported 1,000 people, most by flying glass fragments. Many people had been at their windows viewing the meteor when the sonic boom shattered the glass panes. It was estimated to be—very approximately—65-ft in diameter, with a mass of about 11,000 tons. It entered the Earth’s atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of over 42,500 mph. The residents saw a thick, white contrail and an intense flash of light ending with a very 

loud thundering sound. The meteor blew apart with about 440 kilotons of total impact energy (as much as a large atomic bomb).

2023 – Scientists warn the Thwaites Glacier, the so-called “Doomsday Glacier” and the size of Florida, is weakening threatening a global sea level rise of 1.6 metres.
Born….
1947 – Randhir Kapoor, Bollywood actor from Kapoor family.
1964 – Ashutosh Gowariker, Bollywood screenwriter wrote scrpts for Lagaan, Swades, Panipat, Jodha Akbar, Mohenjo Daro, What’s Your Raashee etc. (pic credit-X.com).
RIP….
1869 – Mirza Ghalib (Asad Ullah Beg Khan), famous Urdu poet and writer.
You may have known….

In 1921, when USSR-14 submarine ran out of fuel in the Pacific Ocean, the crew rigged up

their hammocks and blankets together and sailed back home.

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