To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
On this day, 13 Feb....
1601 - John Lancaster leads first East India Company voyage from London.
1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition 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.
1875 - The first well-documented U.S. birth of quintuplets was five boys born at Watertown, Wisconsin, to Mrs Edna Beecham Kanouse. Though the babies appeared normally developed, one was stillborn, three died within minutes of delivery, and the remaining one survived only a few hours. Their total birth weight was 10-lb 2-oz. The doctor, and the father who fetched him arrived after the birth, delayed by heavy snow. (Until the 28 May 1934 birth of the famous healthy Dionne quintuplets in Canada, the longest known survival of a quint was 55 days, born in Lisbon, Portugal).
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. The ENIAC machine occupied a room 30 by 50 feet. Its birth lay in WW II as a classified military project known only as Project PX. The ENIAC is historic because it laid the foundations for the modern electronic computing industry.
Born....
1879 - Sarojini Naidu "Nightingale of India". 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.
Titbits....
1959 - Barbie doll goes on sale.
You may have known....
Bankim Chandra Chatterji's composed song "Vande Mataram" was adopted as the National Song. It has an equal status with "Jana Gana Mana". It was first sung in the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
No comments:
Post a Comment