Today’s Motto: ‘For success in life, the strongest part of body needed is the backbone’
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, 13 Feb….
1601 – A fleet o
f five British East India Company ships departed on its first voyage, marking the beginning of British commercial influence in India. John Lancaster leads first East India Company voyage from London. 1633 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition for professing the belief that the earth revolves around the sun. 1856 – East India Company captured Lucknow along with Awadh Kingdom, from Wajid Ali Shah and sanctioned him an annual pension of Rs. 12 lakhs. He was very much adicted to the game of Chausar (Chess) and cared little fpor management of his state. 1895 – A French patent was issued for the Cinématographe, a combined moti
on-picture camera and projector.
2004 – Indian shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won the Gold medal at the 10th Asian Shooting Championship in Kuala Lumpur.
1946 – The world’s first electronic digital computer, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was first demonstrated at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, by the late John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
1960 – France detonated their first plutonium bomb from a 330-foot tower at the Reggane base in 
the Sahara in what was then French Algeria.
2010 – A bomb exploded at the popular German Bakery in Pune, killing 
nine people and injuring 53 others. (pic credit-news.bbc.co.uk)
2013 – North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, claiming it is a nuclear device that can be weaponized.
2018 – Israeli Po
lice report recommends Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud and breach-of-trust charges.
2021 – Archaeologists announce the discovery of the oldest known beer factory in Abydos, Egypt, from the early Dynastic period, 3150 B.C. to 2613 B.C. archaeologists from Egypt and the United States have found this 5,000-year-old large-scale brewer
y at a funerary site in North Abydos. The brewery probably dates to the time of King Narmer, who ruled ancient Egypt around 3150 B.C. One factory is believed to have a capacity to make 5,900 gallons of Beer at a time. (pic credit-egyptinsights.com)
Born…. 1835 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a writer, Sunni Muslim philosopher, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. Born in Qadian (Punjab), he established the Ahmadiya Jammat in March 1889.
1879 – Sarojini Naidu, born in Hyderabad, she was a renowned poet, freedom fighter, and the first woman Governor in India. She represented Indian women in Round T
able Conference in London. Was also popular as Nightingale of India for her peotery and singing.
1915 – Pandit Gopal Prasad Vyas, one of the famous poets, writers, and litterateurs of India. Known for his humorous poems. His poems have been compiled into several books such as To Mein Kya 
Karoon, Ras Rasamrit, Maff Kijiye and Baat Baat Mein Baat. He was considered a poet of Brajbhasha, a critic, a penetrator of grammar, literature, rasa-riti, ornamentation, heroine-bhed and pingal. He was famous as ‘Hasyarasavatar’.
1929 – Lekh Tandon, a Bollywood actor and successful film producer. He had directed numerous Bollywood movies and Indian TV Serials. He gained national fame due to success of his directorial ventures Professor, Prince, Amrapali, Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye, and Swades, Ek Baar 
Kaho and Agar Tum Na Hote.
1931 – Rajendra Nath, popular Bollywood actor and comedian in Hindi and Punjabi films. He appeared in 187 movies, including classics like Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai, Mere Sanam and 
Purab Aur Paschim. Younger brother of
1945 – Vinod Mehra, Amritsar born popular Hindi film actor. He started out as a child actor in the mid 1950s, before starting his film career as an adult in 1971. He appeared in over 100 films from the 1970s, until his death in 1990. His films Ek Thi Reeta, Bewakoof, mparde Ke Peeche, Amar Prem, Laal Pather, Anura
ag, Swarg Narag, saajan Bina Suhagan etc. were poipular. He also produced Gurudev, Pather ke Phool, Auarat Aurat Aurat etc. He is believed to have married thrice but had heart attack at an age of 45 only.
You may have known…. Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s composed song “Vande 
M
ataram” was adopted as the National Song. It has an equal status with “Jana Gana Mana”. It was first sung in the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
