February 14 : Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results.

On this day, 14 Feb....

1794 - The first US patent for textile (carding & spinning) machinery was granted to James Davenport of Philadelphia.

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 the secret taping system in White House.

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 transplant recipient. She had a heart attack at age 6. She had inherited a receptor deficiency from both parents. Having virtually no way to rid her body of cholesterol, she had blood levels of cholesterol almost five times the safe level. The operation transplanted a heart to replace her damaged one, and a liver which possessed the normal number of cholesterol receptors. Followed by drug treatment, her cholesterol level dropped to the normal range. 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, poet.

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 of Tragedy").

1952 - Smt. Sushma Kaushal Swaraj, Indian Foreign Minister.

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