#29February#ThisDayThatYear 1896
India’s former Prime Minister (6th) & Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian awardee, Morarji Desai was born. He played crucial role in formation of India’s largest milk cooperative movement way back in 1946, that later known as @Amul_Coop
#28February#ThisDayThayYear 1968
International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery. Attended by delegates of 124 nations, its 4point charter, handwritten by The Mother set her vision of integral living: Auroville belongs to nobody in particular.
#28February#ThisDayThayYear 1937
India's Chandrasekhar determined #TheChandrasekharlimit — that a star mass >1.44 times that of the Sun does not form a white dwarf but continues to collapse, blows off its gaseous envelope in a supernova explosion & becomes a neutron star
#28February#ThisDayThayYear 1928
India’s renowned scientist C V Raman CV Raman invented the Raman effect for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize Physics in 1930.
National Science Day is celebrated to commemorate this discovery
@NobelPrize#NationalScienceDay
#27February#ThisDayThatYear 1992
‘Tumhari Amrita’ made its début at @PrithviTheatre Mumbai. Directed by Feroz Abbas Khan, featuring @AzmiShabana & Farooq Shaikh, it was an Indianised adaptation of A R Gurney's play #LoveLetters created by playwright Javed Siddiqui
#27February#ThisDayThatYear
Marathi Language Day or Marathi Bhasha Gaurav Din is celebrated to honor the birth anniversary of renowned Marathi poet, play-wright, novelist and Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Awardee, Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar, also known as Kusumagraj.
#26February#ThisDayThatYear 1975
India’s first Patang (kite) museum 'Shankar Kendra' was established in Ahmedabad. The museum houses more than 100 kites kites from the private collection of Mr. Bhanu Sha, displaying the rare kite designs & its history starting from 200 BC
#25February#ThisDayThatYear 1977
Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun. It named after the former president Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. The Rs 10 crore station has been system-engineered, fabricated, commissioned and run by Indian engineers.
#24February#ThisDayThatYear 1988
Prithvi, India's first indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
#24February#ThisDayThatYear 1981
Maruti Udyog Limited was incorporated as a 100% Gov-owned company. It was incorporated-in Room 174, Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi, which housed the Department of Heavy Industry. It's 1st board meeting was held on the same day. @Maruti_Corp
#23February#ThisDayThatYear 1962
The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta to conduct research on prevention and control of cholera and other diarrheal diseases. In 1979 it was renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases. @ICMRDELHI @ICMRNICED
#23February#ThisDayThatYear 1962
Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy was established and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started
@isro
#23February#ThisDayThatYear 1952
The Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act was passed in India. The great Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist Jamset Ji Tata had instituted a Pension Fund way back in 1886 in his companies.
@TataCompanies@LabourMinistry
#22February#ThisDayThatYear 1999.
India's popular economist Jagdish Bhagwati was appointed as the head of the Center for Indian Politics Economy in Columbia. @Columbia
#21February#ThisDayThatYear 1953
Tillaya Dam and Bokaro Power Station opened. It was constructed across the Barakar River, at Tilaiya in Koderma district in the Indian state of Jharkhand
#21February#ThisDayThatYear 2016
253 Indian villages were electrified in just one week ending on 21st Feb, under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna