Today’s Motto: ‘You can do anything you set your mind to’
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. 22…….
1630 – Popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by an Indian named Quadequina who brought it in deerskin bags as his contribution at their first Thanksgiving dinner. (Popcorn is a type of corn with 
smaller kernels than regular corn, and when heated over a flame, it “pops” into the snack we know it as today. Native Americans were growing it for more than a thousand years before the arrival of European explorers. In 1964, scientists digging in southern Mexico found a small cob of popcorn discovered to be 7,000 years old. Today, the United States grows nearly all of the world’s popcorn).
1903 – Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water.
1907 – 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London.
1918 – Tallest human. The documented world record tallest human Robert Pershing Wadlow was 
born in US. Shortly after graduating from high school, he was 8-ft 4-in tall. He grew to a final height, shortly before his death, of 8-ft 11.1-in. This unique size was attributed to an over active pituitary gland, which produced much higher than normal levels of growth hormone. Today’s medical science can compensate for such problems, but in the 1920s there was no therapy available. He died on 15 Jul 1940, at age 22, from a fatal infection. At the time of his death he weighed 490 pounds. The 1,000-pound casket required a dozen pallbearers, assisted by eight other men (pic credit-Pinterest).
1946 – The first specific antibiotic (streptomycin) effective against tuberculosis was discovered.
1947 – Nehru welcomes British independence offer, invites Muslims to join at New Delhi.
1983 – 3000 die
in communal clashes in Assam.
1995 – Steve Fossett completed the first hot air balloon flight over Pacific Ocean:9600 km. (On 3 Mar 2005, he completed the first solo non-stop and fastest flight around the world without refuelling, in The Global Flyer, a single-engine, single-use experimental jet plane).
1995 – Bomb attack on train in Assam (27 soldiers killed).
2014 – Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen set a new record for the highest number of Olympic medals awarded to a female Winter Olympics athlete after her gold medal at Sochi; Bjoergen ultimately won 15 Olympic medals to date, including six golds.
2016 – 10 million people are without water in Delhi due to sabotage of Munak water canal.
2018 – Neanderthals, not humans, were the first artists on Earth, producing red cave paintings 65,000 years ago in Spain, according to new research published in “Science” (picc credit-Natural History Museum).
2023 – Astronomers reveal Webb telescope data is upending existing theories of how early galaxies were formed, after finding six massive galaxies 100x larger than expected soon after the Big Bang.
Born….
1873 – Sir Muhammad Ekbal, famous Urdu poet, writer of song ‘Sare Jahan se Achha’. He shifted to Pakistan after the partition .
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948 – Jayalalitha, popular Tamil film actress, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu (pic credit-Rediff.com).
1964 – Sooraj R Barjatya, Mumbai film producer, screen writer who made very successful films like Ham Aap ke Hain Kaun, Maine Pyar Kiya, Prem Rattan Dhan Paayo, Vivah, Unchai etc. (pic credit-X.com).
RIP….
1944 – Kasturba Gandhi wife of Mahatma (MK) Gandhi. was married at the age of 14 years. Passed away in British prison in Aga Khan Palace at Pune on Feb. 22 1944. (pic credit-Telegraph India).
1958 – Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. He was a great leader, great orator, revol
utionary and fighter for national freedom.
Titbits….You may have known….
The Shanay Timpishka River in the Amazon is boiling with temperatures hot enough to kill someone who fell in.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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