Tuesday, February 9, 2016

8 February - History and Importance of the Day





2013 Starting Day of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Carnival
http://www.rio-carnival.net/




1600 - Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1849 - New Roman Republic established.
1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
1898 - John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
1915 - D. W. Griffith's silent film "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA - first 12-reel film in America
1928 - 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York
1994 - Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432

2006 - Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. became a blogger. Made his first post.
http://kvssnrao.blogspot.com/2006/02/became-blogger.html





2013 - Starting Day of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Carnival
http://www.rio-carnival.net/




Birthdays

1883 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)
1897 – Zakir Hussain, Indian politician, 3rd president of India (d. 1969)



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