Today’s Motto: ‘Tough people always outlast tough times’
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 Book.
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb. 13………
1601 – John Lancaster leads first East India Company voyage from London (pic credit-Wikipedia).
1633 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inqu
isition for professing the belief that the earth revolves around the sun. Humiliated and threatened with torture, Galileo had no choice but to admit guilt, and “abjure, curse and detest the aforesaid errors and heresies…”
1822 – A U.S. patent was issued for the first practical grass mowing machine to Jeremiah Bailey of Chester county, Pennsylvania, said to mow ten acres a day. It was horse-drawn.
1832 – First appearance of cholera in London.
1856 – East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
1895 – A French patent was issued for the Cinématographe, a combined motion-picture camera and projector.
1922 – The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence.
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.
1959 – Barbie doll goes on sale.
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 bombing at the German Bakery in Pune kills 10 and injures 60 more.
2011 – In Iran, opposition leaders plan a nationwide anti-governmental rally
in an attempt to replicate the success of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
Born….
1879 – Sarojini Naidu “Nightingale of India”. A poet, Freedom Fighter, She returned the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal to British Govt. under protest against Jalianwala Massacre of peaceful Indians in Amritsar (April 13, 1919). She holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London (Pic credit-ShutterStock.com)
1945 – Vinod Mehra, Bollywood actor. Acted in Ghar, Nagin, Sabse Bada Rupaiya, Anurag, Dada etc. Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award in Kolkata in 2018. (pic credit-IMDb).
1969 – Subroto Banerjee, cricketer, Indian quickie and Dennis Lillee protege.
RIP….
2008 – Rajendra Nath Bollywood comedy actor Youngest brother of legendary Prem Nath. Acted in Raaj Kumar, Jeevan Mrityu, Jhuk Gara Aasman, Phir Vihi Dil Laya Hoon etc. (pic credit-IMDb).
2012 – Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Shahryar, lyricist.
You may have known….
For the first week of their lives tigers are completely blind. Half of them do not make it to adulthood.
{Compiled by Lt. BGen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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