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Medical College was started in Calcutta and it was officially opened on Feb 20. (1835),
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International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery (1968),
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Gandhiji signs Satyagraha Pledge to secure withdrawal of Rowlatt Bills (1919),
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The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11 (1997),
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Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. (1918),
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C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'. (1928),
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Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics. (Indian Nobel Laureat (1930),
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The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event). (1987),
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Strike by workers of the Nizam state railways over bonus (1930),
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The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation (1939),
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Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory (1956),
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AT & T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day (1982),
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Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft. (2007),
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In North Carolina, a neuroscientist at Duke University announces he has successfully connected the brains of two rats in such a way that they share information (2013),
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IBM announces it is on the cusp of creating the world's first quantum computer (2012),
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United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said there is no evidence that Iraq has any weapons of mass destruction (2003),
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