Today’s Motto: ‘Your big opportunity may be right where you are now’

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

On this day, Feb. 05…….

1576 – Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism.

1825 – Housewife Hannah Lord Montague of Troy, New York took her scissors and created the first detachable collar on one of her husband’s shirts in order to reduce her laundry load to the collar only. Her husband showed his wife’s invention to other men around town. Their wives embraced this new invention. Merchants followed suit, and Troy, New York, became “Collar City” to the rest of America (pic credit-New Hampshire PBS).

1850 – Gail Borden of Brooklyn, New York, was issued a U.S. patent for his process that baked a combination of extracts from meat with flour to produce a meat biscuit capable of long term storage. This gave a convenient method that a preserved meat-based product could be carried by the military, seamen and other travellers. Because it could be reconstituted with hot water as a soup, the patent title was “Preparation of Portable Soup-Bread.” (Six years later, he perfected a process to heat milk in a vacuum to produce condensed milk capable of extended storage).

1861 – Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia.

1884 – Black American inventor Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio, was issued a U.S. patent for an “Egg Beater”.

1901 – Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot.

1918 – Thomas A. Edison was issued a U.S. patent for a “Starting and Current-Supplying System for Automobiles”
1918 – 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson.

1918 – Separation of church and state begins in USSR.

1922 – Readers Digest First Published. DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Wallace publish the first Reader’s Digest magazine designed to provide abridged articles on a wide variety of subjects, for easy reading (pic credit-Pinterest).

1929 – Earlier, athletes dug holes in the ground to get a firm foot-hold for starting. On this day, the first U.S. patent for starting blocks, titled “Foot Support,” was issued to George T. Bresnahan of Iowa City. He described his invention as “what might be termed a starting block” to be used on a running track or field.
1989 – The last Russian troops withdrawn from the capital city of Kabul.
1991 – The last of 1.2 Lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.

2016 – Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities.

Born….
1630 – Har Rai,  7th Sikh Guru. He became Guru at the age of 14 on March 03, 1644. (pic credit-Bhagwan Photos)
1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, Bollywood actor son of Amitabh Bachchan. acted in Refugee, Guru, Ghumar, Bunty and Babli, Dhoom etc. Won several cine and Filmfare awards (pic credit-Filmfare.com).
RIP….
2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation.
2010 – Sujit Kumar, veteran Bhojpuri actor. Mostly acted in support or villain roles in Bollywood films.
You may have known….
A car thief in Florida was apprehended by police after he was cornered by crows.

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