February 7 : When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors.

On this day, 07 Feb....

1817 - The first public gas street light in the U.S. was lit in Baltimore, Maryland.

1896 - First British X-ray. On this day. X-rays were first used to discover the location of a bullet in a 12-yr-old boy's wrist who shot himself the previous month. When the pellet could not be found on probing, it was identified embedded in the third carpometacarpal joint through X-ray.

1915 - Train wireless message. The first wireless message sent from a moving train to a station was received.

1935 - Monopoly, which had been invented by Charles Darrow on 7 Mar 1933, was first marketed. It is primarily a game of barter, involving trading and bargaining.

1943 Shoe rationing begins in the US. (During World War II, many items were rationed in the United States. Due to serious rubber shortage footwear made of rubber or with rubber soles was rationed or unavailable. Also, the military had a high need for leather, not just for shoes and combat boots but for those popular leather flight jackets. As a result, civilians made do with less).

1960 - Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea. The scrolls were in eleven caves in the immediate vicinity of the ancient settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the third oldest known surviving manuscripts.

1969 - Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack.

1984 - Bubble boy. 12-year-old boy publicly identified only as “David,” born without immunity to disease, touched his mother for the first time after he was removed from a plastic “bubble”, where he had lived in a protective, germ-free environment in a Houston hospital. He died two weeks later on 22 Feb 1984.

1984 - Untethered spacewalk. The first untethered spacewalks were made by Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart

1992 - Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy.

1999 - Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became only the second bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi.

RIP

1981 - 61 die in circus fire in Bangalore.

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