February 28 : Leaders create the change they believe in

On this day, 28 Feb....

1561 - Ambroise Paré published La méthode curative des players et fractures de la teste humaine (Treatment Method for Wounds and Fractures of the Human Head). For his innovative methods, Paré is known as “the father of modern surgery."

1893 - Carborundum was patented by Edward G. Acheson of Monongahela. He had discovered it accidentally while trying to make artificial diamonds. He had dissolved carbon into molten corundum (a mixture of powdered coke and clay) in an electric furnace, and that yielded dark, hard, gritty crystals. He named the new material carborundum and found it was one of the hardest industrial substances, which made it an excellent abrasive material. In 1894, he started the Carborundum Company to produce grindstones, knife sharpeners, and various abrasives.

1935 - Nylon was discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers of DuPont.

1953 - DNA structure discovered by James Watson.

1996 - In the Jain hawala case, nonbailable warrants of arrest issued against 10 politicians.

2014 - Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra plans selling the e2o, an electric car, in Bhutan for about $11,300; vehicle exhaust is causing air pollution problems in Bhutan that threaten the country's tourism-dependent economy.

Born

1900 - Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India.

1944 - Ravindra Jain, composer.

1994 - Er. Parul Gupta, Shahdara, Delhi

RIP

1936 - Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

1963 - Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India.

1988 - Jaydev, famous music director.

You may have known....

You can cry in space but your tears don’t fall. Onboard the International Space Station, water floats like bubbles or spheres. However, the water will cling to a surface until it is dislodged. This means that tears start to form bubbles around your eyes as the weightless environment is not causing your tears to fall. This sounds really cool but it can be dangerous. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano suffered a space suit leak whilst on a spacewalk. The water leaked into his helmet covered his eyes and ears, but thankfully he made it back into the Space Station unharmed, but if not he could have drowned in space.