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On this day, 04 Feb….

1932 : The first Winter Olympics was held in the United States.

1938 – The animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released and had major success in the box-office, making more money than any other motion picture up till that point.

1931 – Banks continue to close across the US when depositors ask for their deposits back. Most small banks had large amounts invested in the stock market and with the crash of Wall Street in late 1929 many banks do not have sufficient funds.

1941 – Roy Plunkett received a U.S. patent for “Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers,” now known under the trade name Teflon. The invention was by accident, when on 6 Jun 1938, Plunkett had discovered a lining of the solid polymer had resulted when he examined the inside of containers that had stored tetrafluoroethylene gas under pressure (pic credit-Getty Images).

1948 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from British rule and becomes an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.

1948 – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) banned.

1948 – Finance Minister announces nationalisation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after Sept 30, 1948.

1951 – The longest operation in medical history, taking four days, began in Chicago to remove a huge ovarian cyst from Mrs Gertrude Levandowski, age 58.

1957 – 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York).

1959 – This first day of the invention of the Barbie Doll. This doll was created by Ruth Handler, who  was one of the founders of the Mattel Company. Barbie was named after Ruth’s daughter. (Later on, when the Ken doll was made, it was named after Ruth’s son).

1969 – The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded.

1990 – Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India.

2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg on Feb. 04, 2004.

2006 – Following the publishing of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad Muslim protesters torched and destroyed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. And in Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and burning German and Danish flags.

2013 – The government of France has overturned a two-hundred year law that banned women  from wearing trousers. The law had effectively been out of use for several years as people just ignored the law, however the change would make it formally legal for women to wear trousers.

2023 – Chinese Surveillance Balloon shot down by US fighter jets off the US eastern seaboard, after drifting across the US for days and igniting a political storm (pic credit-7News.com).

Born….

1922 – Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer, composer who belonged to Kirana Gharana and invented Raga Hindola, Shuddhkalyan, Basant Bahar, Sandhya Raga  and other ragas. Learned Indian  classical on  harmonium, taanpura  and powerful vocal music under his  Gurus, Thumri exponent   Abdul Karim Khan and Kumar Gandharva. He also sang Bhajans and some popular film songs  like Basant Bahar, Ankahe, Tansen etc.  He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademy  fellowship  and Bharat Ratna  in  2009 (video credit-Saregama Karvan/Music).

1924 – Kocheril Raman Narayanan,  ninth VP and 10th President of India from 1997 to 2002. Studied in London School of Economics thru’  a  Tata   Scholarship in 1945-48.  An academician,  journalist,  diplomat and statesman, he served as Indian ambassador to Vietnam,  Japan, Australia, United States and China.  He was elected to Lok Sabha thrice and served as Minister in Rajiv Gandhi govt.

1974 – Urmila Matondkar, Romantic Marathi, Bollywood, Telugu, Malayalam  film  actor famous for her roles in  Rageela, Satya, Makadi,  Khoobsurat,  Narsimha, Chamatkar,  Drohi, Bhoot, Ek Musafir Ek Hasina, Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya, Shreeman Aashique  etc. She won a Filmfare and many other accolades (pic credit-thefamouspeople.com).

RIP….

1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian theoratic physicist and mathematician who who studied under legendary Sir JC Bose, Prof. SP Das and  Dr. PC Roy and  worked on Radiation and Plank  theory of physics, later collaborated with Albert Einstein to develop a theory of statistical quantum mechanics, now called Bose-Einstein statistics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize but not awarded. Govt of India nominated him to Rajya Sabha and headed CSIR, ISC, ISI and Fellow of Royal Society.

You may have known….

There is enough evidence to show that the Indians knew weaving some 1,500 years before Christ, when the Europeans were still covering themselves with animal skins. Pyrard, the 17th century Portuguese writer has recorded that everyone from the Cape of Good Hope to China  was clothed from head to foot in India made handloom  garments.The fine and soft  Dhaka   Malmal  (Muslin)  was the envy of the world for centuries together (pic credit-mgbd.net).

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