Today’s Motto: ‘When you truly believe in what you are doing, it shows’
As Every Day is 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, 10 Feb….
1837 – Russian Alexander Pushkin, poet, playwright and novelist of the romantic era, was fatally injured in a duel with French officer Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès. Reportedly
, the French officer had attempted to seduce the poet’s wife, Natalya Pushkina (pic credit-Getty Images).
1846 – British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon. (The First Anglo-Sikh war began in late 1845, after a combination of increasing disorder in the Sikh empire following the death of Ranjit Singh in 1839 and provocations by the British East India Company led to the Sikh Khalsa Army invading British territory).
1859 – General Horsford defeats Begum of Oudh and Nana Sahib.
1863 – The first U.S. patent on a fire extinguishing system for buildings was granted to Alanson Crane. The innovation catered for flooding the building through pre-laid pipes and extinguish the fire.
1915 – US President Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans.
1916 – Conscription begins in Britain.
1931 – Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.
1958 – Radar signals were bounced off the planet Venus by MIT engineers at Lincoln Laboratories in experiments conducted during an inferior conjuction with Venus.
1961 – The Niagara Falls hydroelectric project, the largest (at the time) hydroelectric facility in the Western world, was officially opened.
1979 – Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
1992 – Andaman and Nicobar Islands opened for foreign travellers.
1996 – IBM chess-playing computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Garry Kasparov. He was a Russian chess player and ruled the game for several years (pic credit-Reddit.com).
2019 – Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a“catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered.
Born…. 1915. G V Chalapati Rao, Noted writer, educationaist, 
administrator
1970 – Kumar Vishwas. Famous poet, writer and educator. He is also the co-founder of India Against Corruption movement and its political wing AAP in 2013. He fell out with its convenor A. Kejriwal in 2014 and left. Kumar now addresses religious congragations on Hindu philosophy.
1991 – Emma Roberts. American actress, singer. She won sevetral Kid’s Choice and People’s Choice awar
ds for her films.
RIP…. 1921 – Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and nobel prize winner. He had 
discovered X-Ray.
You may have known….
The decline of the traditional industry and the rise of the modem industry in India were neither simultaneous nor casually connected. The beginning of modem large scale industry in India dates back to 1830 when the first charcoal fired iron making was attempted in Tamil Nadu. However, this venture collapsed in 1866.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen (R) Raj Kadyan}