On this day, 09 Feb....
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts. (The game was originally called "Mintonette". Morgan met James Naismith, inventor of basketball, while he was studying at Springfield College, Massachusetts in 1892. Like Naismith, Morgan pursued a career in Physical Education at the YMCA. Influenced by Naismith and basketball, in 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Morgan invented "Mintonette" a less vigorous team sport more suitable for older members of the YMCA but one that still required athletic skill).
1902 - Siamese twins separated. Doctor Eugène-Louis Doyen of Paris, performed a successful operation on Siamese twins, though one died by the next year. Dr. Doyen was among the first to document medical surgeries on film. Previously he had made a five-minute movie (1898) showing the separation of the Siamese twins Radhika and Dodika, who were originally brought to Paris as freaks.
1946 - Demonstrations were held against the trial of the INA men. The ratings and a few units of the Royal Indian Navy rise in open Mutiny in Mumbai harbors.
1951 - The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.
1991 - Japanese nuclear accident. Japan's worst nuclear accident up to this date happened at Mihama. Some radioactivity was released to the atmosphere and MITI reported later that the accident was caused by human error. No deaths resulted.
Born
1958 - Amrita Singh, actor.
1968 - Rahul Roy, actor.
RIP
1984 - Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer.
2000 - Shobhna Samarth, actor.
2006 - Nadira, Actor.
You may have known....
The first person to successfully traverse the desert of Antarctica to reach the South Pole was Norwegian Roald Amundsen. He and four other men used sleds pulled by dogs to make it to the Pole. Amundsen would later attribute his success to careful planning.
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