National Girls and Women in Sports Day

 

Daulat Singh Kothari's Death Anniversary

National Wedding Ring Day (United States)

Bertrand Russell's Death Anniversary

Bertrand Russell, who passed away on 2 February 1970, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

He was the figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Russell’s contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century. To the general public, however, he was best known as a campaigner for peace and as a popular writer on social, political, and moral subjects. During a long, productive, and often turbulent life, he published more than 70 books and about 2,000 articles, married four times, became involved in innumerable public controversies, and was honoured and reviled in almost equal measure throughout the world.

Wener Heisenberg's Death Anniversary

Werner Heisenberg, passed away on 1 February 1976, was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, this matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. He is known for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which he published in 1927. Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics".

Major Somnath Sharma's Birth Anniversary

 

Major Somnath Sharma, PVC, born on 31 January 1923, he was the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, the highest Indian gallantry award. He was awarded the medal posthumously for his bravery in the Kashmir operations in November 1947. He died while evicting Pakistani infiltrators and raiders from Srinagar Airport during the Indo-Pak war of 1947-48 in Kashmir. He belonged to the 4th Kumaon Regiment.

In his last message sent to the brigade headquarters, Major Sharma said, "The enemy is only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to the last man and the last round."

Karpati Maharaj's Death Anniversary

Swami Karpatri Maharaj, who passed away on 30 January 1980, was born as Har Narayan Ojha into a Saryupareen Brahmin family of a village called Bhatni in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh. He was a sannyasi in the Hindu Dashanami monastic tradition.