Today’s Motto: ‘Fear defeats more people than any other one thing’
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, 20 Feb….
1835 – Calcutta Medical College was formally opened, marking a significant advancement in modern medical education in India. The college was opened by Lord William Bentinck, then Viceroy of India. 
1846 – Following the First Anglo-Sikh War, British forces captured the city of Lahore. British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore, defeating Sikh Khalsa Army led by commander Sham Singh Attariwala. Sikhs were asked to pay an indemnity amount of 1.2 million pounds, which they could not. Gulab Singh paid the amount and got Kashmir region as part of deal.
1847 – The Royal Calcutta Turf Club was established. 1872 – Luther Childs Crowell, received a patent for a machine for manufacturing square-bottom paper bags.
1947 – Br
itish Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
1968 – Dr. P.K. Sen performed the first heart transplant surgery in India at Mumbai’s KEM (King Edward Memorial) Hospital, Mumbai.
1976 – Production 
of Crude Oil started from offshore Bombay High near Mumbai.
1987 – Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh became the 23rd and 24th 
states of Indian Union.
1994 – Government makes the first appointment under 27% reservation for OBCs in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking.
1999 – Delhi-Lahore Bus Diplomacy: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee embarked on a historic bus journey to Lahore (Pakistan) to meet PM Nawaz Sharif for peace talks. PM Vajpayee and celebrities chanting their urge unending for eternal peace..(हम जंग ना होने देंगे…!), travelling in the Delhi-Lahore bus, named Sada-e-Sarhad included NSA Brajesh Mishra, EAM Jaswant Singh, Punjab CM PS Badal, legendary youth icon and hero Dev Anand, popular Indian cricketer Kapil Dev, film story/script writer Javed Akhtar, classical dance celebrity Mallika Sarabhai, hero/villain and politician Shatrughan Sinha and more…, were received by Shariff in Lahore. Yet the sentiment was short-lived as Pak General Musharraf sent his army to his futile Kargil adventure in May 1999. (pic credit-archive.sssmediacentre.org).
2012 – Scientis
ts successfully regenerate the flowering plant, Silene Stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years.
Born…. 1942 – Mitch McConnoll. American Republican Senator. Faught for minority rights and wrote books like Man in the Arena, Rand Slide, Election Rand P
aul, West Wing Week etc.
1945 – Annu Kapoor, Bollywood actor, singer, radio dic jockey, TV presenter and producer. He has acted in Mr. India, Om Jai Jagdish, Vicky Donor, Jolly LLB, The Perfect Murder, Ram Lakhan, 7 Khoon Maaf etc. He won V Santaram Award for direction, Zere Cine and 2 National Awards.
1988 – Rihanna. Popular Barbedian singer of pop/rock. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 250 million records. After signing with Def Jam Recordingh she sang for the Caribbean-inspired records Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006), both of which reached the top ten of the US Billboard 200. Their respective lead singles, “Pon de Replay” and “SOS”, peaked at numbers two and one on the US Billboard Hot 100. Adopting a more mature image, Rihanna rose to stardom and transitioned to dance-pop and R&B with the album Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) and its reissue, subtitled Reloaded (2008). The project yielded a string of successful songs, including the US number-one singles “Umbrella”, “Take a Bow”, and “Disturbia”. Her guest appearances on “Live Your Life”, “Love the Way You Lie”, and “The Monster” also topped the Billboar
d Hot 100.s She has won several music awards including Grammy , MTV Europe etc.
RIP…. 1707 – Aurangzeb, 6th Mughal emperor, also called Alamgir, ruled India from 1658 to 1707. He was a very oppressive tyrant, who levied Jazia tax on Hindus, non-muslims and demolished many of their major temples like Ayodhya, Mathura, Benaras, Dwarka and many more. He even imprisoned his father Shah Jahan in his old age due to battle of succession. He got his elder brothers Dara Shikoh and Danyal killed. He rationed food, water supplies for Shah Jahan in jail..
1950 – Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose. He went to Germany to meet Netaji’s wife Anita Bose and bring her to India but she declined. He faught against the Partition of Bengal and Punjab. He founded Socialist Republican Party in 1948 and wanted to form a United Nations of South Asia (UNSA) by uniting India, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma and Ceylon to have common financial foreign policies. .
You may have known…. 1. As of 2024, India has documented 104,561 species of fauna. 2. Heavy chemical industry was started in 1941 and th
e production of sulphuric acid, synthetic ammonia, caustic soda, chlorine and bleaching powder commenced. 
The Hindustan Aircraft Company also assembled its first aircraft in 1941. {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
