Today’s Motto: ‘Try to be the person you were……..

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

On this day,  Feb. 27………..

1803 – Great fire raged through Bombai (comprising seven islands), destroying almost a third of the city’s houses. Densely populated, it was devastated, and in its aftermath authorities pushed through major changes, greatly altering the urban landscape and uprooting communities. Ironically, considering the post-fire desire for space and expansion, Mumbai today is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.

1867 – Dr. William G. Bonwill of US invented the dental mallet while watching a telegraph key sounder operate in a Philadelphia hotel.

1869 – John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in US Congress (pic credit-Blackpast).

1874 – Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord’s Cricket Grounds.
1879 – Saccharin, the artificial sweetener, was discovered accidentally by Constantin Fahlberg while researching coal tar compounds.
1892 – With comparative scarcity of water power in many parts of England, attention was paid to producing electricity from wind power. A small experimental plant was set up at a flour-mill near London, the wind-mill supplying sufficient power to charge a storage battery, from which a number of arc and incandescent lamps were lighted nightly. Although the current obtained was small, the experiment demonstrated the possibilities.

1900 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann was issued a U.S. patent for “Acetyl Salicylic Acid”. He had discovered the chemical compound on 10 Aug 1897 while a researcher at the Bayer company. It was marketed as Apirin.
1932 – The neutron was discovered by Dr. James Chadwick.
1942 – J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun.
1947 – The first closed-circuit broadcast of a surgical operation showed procedures to observers in classroom by Dr. Alfred Blalock.
2014 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to revise food labels by providing realistic serving sizes, emphasizing calories and sugar amounts, and breaking down fat listings into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fats.   

Born….1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, legendary English-American actress. Her most successful films were Cleopatra,Giant,  Little Woman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, etc.. She won British Academy and other 4 awards (pic credit-Reddit).

1952 – Prakash Jha, Bollywood screenwriter and producer.  Known for films on social impact like Ganga Jal, Rajneeti,  Chakraview, Mrityudand, Apharan, Dil Kya Kare etc. He won 12 National and Filmfare awards ((Photo credit Ian Gavan/Getty Images for BFI)

RIP….
1931 – Chandra Shekhar Azad. He was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association under the new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. He is considered to be the mentor of Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
You may have known….100 richest people in the world earn so much that it can remove poverty in the world four times over.
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