Today’s Motto: ‘The staircase to success is made of steps of toil’

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

On this day,  Feb. 10…………

1837 – Russian poet Alexander Pushkin is fatally injured in a duel with French officer Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès (pic credit-iStock).

1846 – British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon. (The First Anglo-Sikh war began in late 1845, after a combination of increasing disorder in the Sikh empire following the death of Ranjit Singh in 1839 and provocations by the British East India Company led to the Sikh Khalsa Army invading British territory).

1859 – General Horsford defeats Begum of Oudh and Nana Sahib.

1863 – Dubois D. Parmelee was issued a U.S. patent for an “Improvement in Artificial Legs” using a custom-moulded suction cup to receive the stump. Atmospheric pressure held the socket in place such that “straps usually employed for this purpose can be dispended with, and at the same time a perfect fit of the bucket is attained.”

1863 – The first U.S. patent on a fire extinguishing system for buildings was granted to Alanson Crane. The patent drawing showed a longitudinal vertical section of a building. The innovation catered for flooding the building through pre-laid pipes and extinguish the fire.

1914 – In accordance with the understanding reached by General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, 60 passive resistance prisoners released from Pietermaritzburg Prison; 40 passive resisters released in Durban, 8 in Newcastle, 11 in Port Elizabeth (pic credit-South African History Online).

1915 – US President Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans.

1916 – Conscription begins in Britain. (Conscription in the UK has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, the second was from 1939 to 1960, with the last conscripted soldiers having left the service in 1963).

1931 – Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.

1933 -Adolf Hitler proclaims end of Marxism (Pic credit-Roger Viollet for Getty Image).

1952 – India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power.

1958 – Radar signals were bounced off the planet Venus by MIT engineers at Lincoln Laboratories in experiments conducted during an inferior conjuction with Venus.

1961 – The Niagara Falls hydroelectric project, the largest (at the time) hydroelectric facility in the Western world, was officially opened.

1979 – Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.

1992 – Andaman and Nicobar Islands opened for foreign travellers.

1999 – P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men’s and women’s singles titles respectively in

the National badminton championship in Delhi (Pics credit-RocketReach & X.com).

2013 – 36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad.

2019 – Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a“ catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered.

Born….

1970 – Kumar Vishwas, poet, spiritual Speaker and politician .

RIP….

1921 – Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and Nobel prize winner. He had discovered X-Ray (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1974 – Pahadi Sanyal, popular Bengali and Bollywood actor.

Did you know this ?

Finger nails of the hand with which we write, grow relatively faster.

 

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}