On this day, 06 Feb....
1918 - Britain grants women (30 and over) vote.
1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane.
1944 - American obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr John Rock with Miriam F. Menkin fertilised the first human egg in a test tube. ( Rock is best known as a developer of the birth control pill).
1954 - Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India.
1959 - Jack S. Kilby filed for a U.S. patent on his invention of “Miniaturised Electronic Circuits.” This described the manufacturing method for the integrated circuit chips that revolutionised computers, calculators and other electronic devices.
1971 - Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard took a few shots at some golf balls while on the moon. He attached a 6-iron golf club to the end of a sample collecting tool. Despite thick gloves and a stiff suit that forced him to swing the club with one hand only, he hit two golf balls. The first landed in a nearby crater. The second was hit squarely, and in the one-sixth gravity of the moon, Shepard said it travelled “miles and miles and miles.” The golf club is on display at the U.S. Golf Association headquarters.
1976 - Swine flu claimed the life of 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis. On the previous afternoon, this Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix, N.J. that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike. Yet, he died within 24 hours, killed by an influenza not seen since the Spanish flu of 1918-19 which took 500,000 American lives and 20 million worldwide.
1979 - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto.
2015 - Scientists report that climate change may be influenced by the carbon dioxide released by undersea volcanoes, which have been assumed until now to have a negligible effect; further studies are needed to assess the degree of impact.
Born
1915 - Kavi Pradeep, poet (born Ramchandra Narayanji Dwivedi). He wrote many patritic song, best known for 'Aye mere watan ke logo'.
1983 - Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, cricketer.
RIP
1804 - Joseph Priestley, English chemist, clergyman and political theorist who discovered the element oxygen.
1931 - Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, revolutionary, founder of 'Swaraj Party', political leader and barrister.
1932 - Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist.
Titbits
1948 - Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia.
1968 - Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one.
You may have known....
Manila in the Philippines is the most densely populated in the world, with the most people crammed into the smallest city limits (outlying suburbs don't count). As of the 2007 census, 1,660,714 people lived in 14.8 square miles (38.55 square kilometers).
Economic News
IT Departments clears that no notices will be sent to individuals for the discrepancies in IT Return and information collected by the department from entities such as banks, Stock exchanges, car dealers etc unless the variation is large.
Volatile market falls for the 5th straight session.BSE falls by 309.59 points,
Singapore Telecom to invest Rs2649 cr in Bharti Telecom.
Reality and natural gas may soon be brought under GST, says FM.
Investors in unlisted firms, where there is a suspicion that the transaction is not genuine, are on tax man's radar.
Union Ministry of power has asked the states to hand over the job of power distribution to Pvt franchisees.
No angel tax on start-up with up to 10cr funding.
Companies primarily in B2B segments are asking their vendors to certify that they are passing on the benefits accrued under GST.
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