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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