Saturday 6 February 2016

On this day 06 Feb - Lt Gen Raj Kadyan

You always miss 100% of the shots you do not take.

On this day, 06 Feb....

1918 - Britain grants women (30 and over) vote.

1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane.

1944 - American obstetrician and gynecologist Dr John Rock  with Miriam F. Menkin fertilized the first human egg in a test tube. ( Rock is best known as a developer of the birth control pill).

1954 - Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India.

1959 - Jack S. Kilby filed for a U.S. patent on his invention of “Miniaturized Electronic Circuits.”  This described the manufacturing method for the integrated circuit chips that revolutionized computers, calculators and other electronic devices

1971 - Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard took a few shots at some golf balls while on the moon. He attached a 6-iron golf club to the end of a sample collecting tool. Despite thick gloves and a stiff suit that forced him to swing the club with one hand only, he hit two golf balls. The first landed in a nearby crater. The second was hit squarely, and in the one-sixth gravity of the moon, Shepard said it travelled “miles and miles and miles.”  The golf club is on display at the U.S. Golf Association headquarters. 

1979 - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier ZA Bhutto.

RIP....

1932 - Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist.

Titbits....

1968 - Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one.

You may have known....

The Gujarat state has accounted for the highest number of Harappan sites after independence.

Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan

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