Do You Know… 20 Aug : A day for mosquitoes !!! 20 Aug 202020 Aug 2020 A day observed for mosquitoes… sounds weird but it exists. Today is World Mosquito Day… It is observed annually on 20 August since 1897… On this day a British doctor…
Do You Know… 14 Aug : What your car’s ‘number plate’ says ? 14 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 Ever tried to decode your car number plate ? What does it say ? Today is the right day to do so. It was today in 1893, when France introduced…
Do You Know… 13 August : The story of ‘Stainless steel’ 13 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 Stainless steel was produced for the first time today in 1913. Credit goes to English metallurgist Harry Brearley. He discovered that adding chromium to molten iron produced a metal that…
Do You Know… 9 Aug : Why “Leaning” Tower of Pisa ? 9 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 Nobody knew when they started constructing the tower that one day this tower would become world famous because of its faulty design. But it happened and today we all admire…
Do You Know… 6 Aug : Birth of the internet 29 years ago 6 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 Can you think of a day without internet ? Think and you would find everything that you do the whole day needs internet. Whether its office work or chatting with…
Do You Know… 5 Aug : First Electric TrafFIc Light on road 5 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 Can you imagine a day on roads without Traffic lights. What a chaos it can be ! But the scene today is completely ordered as electric traffic lights were put in place…
Do You Know… 3 Aug : When leather manufacturing company sold computers 3 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 Sounds weird but its true ! A leather manufacturing company ‘Tandy Leathers’ bought to the world, one of the earliest mass produced personal computers. Tandy Corporation teamed up with Radio…
Do You Know… 1 Aug : Breathing component of life was discovered 1 Aug 20201 Aug 2020 We all breathe Oxygen but don’t know how it came into existence. It was not that easy to identify what gas is responsible for life ? Today in 1774, British…
Do You Know… 30 july : “Flowers and Trees” blossomed on Oscar platform 30 Jul 202024 Jul 2020 The first oscar winning Cartoon short film "Flowers and Trees" was released today in 1932. It was, off course, a Walt Disney creation. The film was made in black and…
Do You Know… 29 July : NASA was established today 29 Jul 202024 Jul 2020 Today is the biggest day in tech history. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA was established today 60 years ago. National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed today by President…
Do You Know… 26 July : Celebration and mourning : Two sides of the same coin 26 Jul 202024 Jul 2020 Ae mere watan ke logon... Zara ankh mein bhar lo pani... Jo shaheed hue hain unki... Zara yaad kart kurbaani... It’s been 20 years that we won the Kargil War with…
Do You Know… 25 July : World’s first test tube baby was born 25 Jul 202024 Jul 2020 Louise Joy Brown, now 38 and a mother of 2 sons, is world’s first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. She was born…
