Today’s Motto: ‘To be the best, we must be able to handle the worst’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book.
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, Feb. 14………….
1556 – Akbar was crowned ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his photograph taken (by Matthew Brady).
1876 – Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.
1899 – US Congress begins using voting machines
1924 – IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson.
1933 – The first telephone speaking clock came into operation in the Paris area.
1971 – Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House (pic credit-Santa Monica 
Daily Press).
1978 – The first “micro on a chip” (microprocessor) was patented.
1984 – Six-year-old Stormie Jones from Texas became the world’s first heart-liver double recipient. She had a heart attack at age 6. She lived until age 13.
On 11 Nov 1990, she died of a possible heart infection.
1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopal disaster.
1996 – President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation
1998 – 13 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
2003 – Dolly, the world-famous first cloned sheep, was put down, at age about 6½ years. She had been suffering from a progressive lung disease.
Born….
1483 – Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, founder of Mughal dynasty in India.
1914 – Jan Nisar Akhtar, popular Urdu poet, ghazal writer, father of film story, script writer Javed Akhtar.(pic credit-Saregama)
1922 – Bhimsen Joshi, great singer and composer.
1933 – Madhubala (Mumtaz Jehan Dehlavi), actor. She is considered to be one of the most beautiful actresses to have worked in the industry and is highly regarded as “The Venus of Indian Cinema” and “The Beauty with Tragedy”. She acted in Sipahiya, Mr. & Mrs. 55,Chalti ka Naam, Gaadi, Mughal-e-Azam, Kala Pani, Hawrah Bridge, Barsat Ki Raat Mahal etc. Was awarded with National Film Award and was nominated to Filmfare awards several times.(Video credit-Shemaroo; Photo credit, James Burker/Aman Kumar)
1952 – Smt. Sushma Kaushal Swaraj, talented speaker, was Indian Foreign Minister between 2014-2019. Awarded 2nd highest National, Padma Vibhushan (pic credit-Wikipedia)
You may have known….
In 2009 Microsoft patented a process for stopping hurricanes.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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