Today’s Motto: ‘Everything is cool in retrospect’
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 Books!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On this day, 04 Feb….
1670 – Tanaji Malusare, a commander of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, r
ecaptured the Sinhagad Fort from the Mughals.
1881 – First issue of the Marathi newspaper Kesari was published under the editorship of Lokmanya Tilak (Bal Gangadhar Tilak), becoming a powerful voice for the Indian freedom struggle.
1932 : The first 
Winter Olympics was held in the United States.
1948 – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) banned.
1948 – Finance Minister RK Shanmukham Chetty, announces nationalisation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after Sept 30, 1948. He was India’s first FM from August 15, 1947 to August 17, 1948. 1951 – The longest operation in medical history, taking four days, began in Chicago to remove a huge ovarian cyst from Mrs Gertrude Levandowski, age 58
1959 – Barbie Doll is created. by American businessman Ruth Handler, making to
ys and textile gifts under his toy company Mettle Toys. Barbie was named after Ruth’s daughter. (Later on, when the Ke
n doll was made, it was named after Ruth’s son).
1990 – Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg on Feb. 04, 2004.
2006 – Following the publishing of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad Muslim protesters torched an
d destroyed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. And in Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and burning German and Danish flags.
2013 – The government of France has overturned a two-hundred year law that banned women from wearing trousers. The law had effectively been out of use for several years as people just ignored the law, however the change would make it formally legal for women to wear trousers.
2023 – Chinese Surveillance Balloon shot down by US fighter jets off the US eastern 
seaboard, after drifting across the US for days and igniting a political storm (pic credit-7News.com).
Born…. 1922 – Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer, composer who belonged to Kirana Gharana and
invented Raga Hindola, Shuddhkalyan, Basant Bahar, Sandhya Raga and other ragas. Learned Indian classical on harmonium, taanpura and powerful vocal music under his Gurus, Thumri exponent Abdul Karim Khan and Kumar Gandharva. He also sang Bhajans and some popular film songs like Basant Bahar, Ankahe, Tansen etc. He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademy fellowship and Bharat Ratna in 2009 (video credit-Saregama Karvan/Music).
1924 – Kocheril Raman Narayanan, ninth VP and 10th President of India from 1997 to 2002. Studied in London School of Economics thru’ a Tata Scholarship in 1945-48. An academician, journalist, diplomat and statesman, he served as Indian ambassador to Vietnam, Japan, Australia, United States and China. He was elected to Lok Sabha t
hrice and served as Minister in Rajiv Gandhi govt.
1974 – Urmila Matondkar, Romantic Marathi, Bollywood, Telugu, Malayalam film actor famous for her roles in Rageela, Satya, Makadi, Khoobsurat, Narsimha, Chamatkar, Drohi, Bhoot, Ek Musafir Ek Hasina, Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya, Shreeman Aashique etc. She won a Filmfare and many other accolades (pic credit-pinterest.com).
1938 – Pandit Birju Maharaj, the legendary Kathak dancer. He was an Indian composer, singer, and exponent of the Lucknow “Kalka-Bindadin” Gharana of Kathak dance in India. He was the nephew of other two famous Indian classical music Gurus Shambhu Maharaj and Lachhu Maharaj, worked in Bhartiya Kala Kendra (now Kathak Kendra) in New Delhi. Birju Maharaj also composed music and dance sequences for films like Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Dil To Pagal Hai, Devdas, D
edh Ishqiya, Vishwaroopam, Bajirao Mastani He was awarded Kalidas Samman, Sangeet Natak Akademi award and several other honours including Padma Vibhashan in 1986.
RIP…. 1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician who collaborated with Albert Einstein to develop a theory of statistical quantum mechanics, now called Bose-Einstein statistics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics in Germany, and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. he was nominated for Nobel Prize in 1962 but denied the honour. 
2002 – Bhagwan Dada, famous actor known for the films Ek Albela, Jhamela, Bhagam Bhag, Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje, Chori Chori, Gateway of India etc. He won many state film awards and honours.
You may have known…. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many a
ncient Indian texts.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
