Today in history 16 February 2022

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Today in history * 16-02-2022 *

 

 * Today 16th February 2022 (1197 Aquarius 4) Today's highlights in history *

 

 * February is the 47th day of the 16th year (48th in leap years) in the calendar.  There are 318 days until the end of the year. *

 

 * πŸŒΉπŸ”»The importance of today πŸŒΉπŸ”» *

 

 * πŸ’Ž Guru Ravidas Jayanti (India) *


 *πŸ’Ž  Tim Tom Day *


 * πŸ’Ž Kyoto Protocol Day *


 *πŸ’Ž  National Innovation Day *


 * 🌐Historical Events🌐 *


 * 🌐1741 * - `` `Benjamin Franklin (Founder Father of the United States) began publishing General Magazine.```


 * 🌐1899 * - `` Notable Nufalag Reijavakur, the first football club in Iceland, is founded.```


 * 🌐1918 * - `` Lithuania was declared an independent state and the Council of Lithuania unanimously approved the law of independence.```


 * 🌐1900 * - `` `Publishes the first Chinese daily newspaper in the US (Chung Sai Yat Po, San Francisco).


 * 🌐1923 * - `` The 3000-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun, the pharaoh of Egypt, was unearthed and examined by the team of English archaeologist Howard Carter.```


 * 🌐1927 * - `` US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey.```


 * 🌐1930 * - `` Romania Football Federation joins FIFA.```


 * 🌐1936 * - `` General election in Spain: Popular Front comes to power.```


 * 🌐1947 * - `` The people of Canada have been granted Canadian citizenship after 80 years of British rule.


 * 🌐1978 * - `` The first computer bulletin board system was launched.```


 * 🌐1982 * - `` Agatha Barbara was elected the first woman president of Malta.```


 * 🌐1985 * - `` Hezbollah was founded.```


 * 🌐2005 * - `` The Kyoto Protocol came into force after its ratification by Russia .```


 * 🌐2008 * - `` The court announces the death of Steve Fawcett, the first person to fly around the world in a balloon.```


 * 🌐2013 * - `` `A bomb blast at a market in Hazara town, Quetta, Pakistan killed more than 80 people and injured 190.```


 * 🌐2016 * - `` China launches world's largest telescope.```


 *🌐 2018 * - `` Ethiopia declares state of emergency in the wake of anti-government protests.```


 *🌐 2018 * - `` `DGP Nirmal Chandra Asthana takes over as State Vigilance Chief.`




 * 🌹Birthdays🌹 *


 * 🌹Mayank Anurag Agarwal * - `` Mayank Anurag Agarwal (born 16 February 1991) is an Indian international cricketer.  He also plays as a right-handed opening batsman for Karnataka.  The Indian cricket team made its international debut on December 26, 2018 against Australia, scoring a double century against South Africa on October 3, 2019.


 * 🌹Kim Jong Il * - `` Kim Jong Il (born 16 February 1941 - died 17 December 2011) is the supreme leader of North Korea.  He also served as General Secretary of the Korean Workers' Party, Chairman of the National Defense Commission, and Supreme Commander of the Army.  In 2010, he was ranked 31st on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's most powerful people.


 * 🌹G.M.  Trevelyan * - `` George McCall Trevelyan (born 16 February 1876 - died 21 July 1962) was an English historian of the twentieth century.  The hallmark of Trevelyan's liberal view of history was his view that history was influenced more by the common people than by the upper classes, and that democratic rule was more conducive to social progress.


 * John McEntro * - `` John Patrick McEnroe (born February 16, 1959) is an American tennis player. McEnroe won 3 Wimbledon, 4 U.S.  He has won 7 Grand Slam individual titles, including the Open.  He won nine men's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title in his tennis career.


 * 🌹Waseem Jaffer * - `` Wasim Jaffer (born 16 February 1978) is an international Indian cricketer.  He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed off-spinner.  He scored his first double century in the second innings of a Test match against the West Indies at the Antigua Recreation Ground.  Jaffer's highest score in Tests was 212 that day


 * 🌹Henry Adams * - `` Henry Adams (Born: 16 February 1838 - Died: 27 March 1918) was born in the United States.  He was a historian and novelist.  An Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law was published in 1876, based on Anglo-Saxon law.


 * Hugo DeVries * - `` Hugo DeVries (16 February 1848 - 21 May 1935) was the inventor of Mutation Theory.  From 1900-1903 he presented his theories in his book The Mutation Theory.  In 1900, Gregor Mendel's genetic theory was rediscovered.  The theory of evolution is the theory that evolutionary changes in living things lead to evolution.



 * 🌷memories🌷 *

 

 * 🌷 Dr.  L.  Ravi Varma * - `` Dr.  L.  Ravi Varma (Lakshmipuram Avithomithirunal Ravi Varma) (26 October 1884 - 16 February 1958) was an Indian historian, ophthalmologist and twentieth century philosopher.  He was one of the pioneers of modern Kerala medicine and one of the first scholars to create a semantic bridge between the Western and Indian medical systems.


 * 🌷 Dadadasahib Phalke * - `` Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Born) is a well-known filmmaker, director and screenwriter known as Dadasahib Phalke. Born 30 May 1870 - Died 16 February 1944).  He is considered to be the father of Indian cinema (April 30, 1870 - February 16, 1944).  His debut was in 1913 with Raja Harishchandra.  It is considered to be the first full-length feature film in India.  Phalke has contributed 95 films and 26 short films over a period of nineteen years.  His most famous films are Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), Satyavan Savitri (1914), Lanka Dahan (1917), Srikrishna Janam (1918) and Kalia Mardan (1919).  The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an award instituted by the Government of India in 1969 in honor of Dadasahib Phalke.  This award is the largest film award in India today.  The award is given for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema


 * 🌷 Edward Bagritzky * - `` Edward Bagritzky was an intellectual Soviet Russian poet.  November 3 [O.S.  October 22] 1895 - February 16, 1934).  He was a neo-romantic poet.  Worked with the Odessa movement in Russia.  He died at a very young age and his friends published the works after his death at the expense of his family. "


 *🌷  Giuseppe Carducci * - `` Giuseppe Carducci (27 July 1835 - 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet who won the 1906 Nobel Prize for Literature.


 * 🌷 Chiengxiang Wu * - `` Chiengxiang Wu (May 31, 1912 - February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions to nuclear physics.  Wu is nicknamed the first woman in physics, Madame Curie of China, and Princess of Nuclear Research.


 * 🌷Meghnath Saha * - `` Meghnath Saha (October 6, 1893 - February 16, 1956) was an Indian scientist who made invaluable contributions to astrophysics.  An invention known as the 'Saha's Thermo-lonisation equation' is considered to be an important contribution to astrophysics.  When a substance reaches a very high temperature, its electrons receive the energy (atomization) to exit the atom.  This function is called thermal ionization.  It gave a new direction to the study of stars, including the Sun.  The milestone in the development of astrophysics was the ability to analyze the spectra of stars using the Saha equation to determine their temperature.


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πŸ”Ί 16 February 2022 Current Affairs


Question 01. Which Indian company has recently tied up with Luxembourg based satellite and telecommunications service provider SES to provide satellite based broadband communication services in India.

Answer: Reliance Jio


Question 02. Recently who has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of Air India.

Answer: Ilkar Icy


Question 03. Recently CBI has detected India's biggest bank fraud, who has done this fraud, and how much fraud has been done by the bank.

Answer: Rs 22842 crore by ABG Shipyard


Question 04. Recently who is the author of the book titled How to Prevent the Next Pandemic?

Answer: Bill Gates


Question 05. Recently who has been elected the President of Germany.

Answer: Frank Walter Steinmeier


Question 06. Who will set up the country's largest wrestling academy recently?

Answer: Indian Railways


Question 07. Recently, ISRO has launched Earth Observation Satellite EOS-04 (EOS-04) from Satdhavan Space Center, from which launch vehicle it has been launched.

Answer: PSSV-C52


Question 08. Recently which country has become the first to allow drones to fly in civilian airspace?

Answer: Israel


Question 09. Recently in which country the Emergency Act has been implemented for the first time.

Answer: Canada


Question 10. What is the rank of India in the 9th US Green Building Council recently?

Answer: Third place‌‌


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