Goa Carnival 2024 - February 10 - 13

The Goa Carnival is an annual event that takes place in four different locations in the coastal state of Goa, in India.

The event is led by the Carnival King Momo and features elaborate floats and performances by various cultural groups.

The Carnival is a great opportunity to experience different aspects of Goan culture and is a great time to indulge in local delicacies.

Goa Carnival 2024 will be celebrated from February 10-13 in four major locations in Goa - Panaji, Margao, Vasco and Mapusa. The float parade is always set in that order of major cities in the State from Saturday to Tuesday, which is followed by the 40-day Lenten season and then, the joyous Easter in the Roman Catholic calendar.

India's first Test match win

 

On 10 February 1952, India’s first Test match victory. In 1952, when Vijay Hazare’s side made history by beating England by an innings and 8 runs at Chepauk, the team members congratulated each other and went home with their booty of Rs 250 per head.

When Man Lost to Computer

 On 10 February 1996, Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in the first game of a six-game match—the first time a computer had ever beat a human in a formal chess game. Two other games in that match were draws. The next year, Kasparov and Blue faced off again and Kasparov lost the match. It was a new frontier in computing.

“The result was met with astonishment and grief by those who took it as a symbol of mankind’s submission before the almighty computer,” Kasparov wrote in 2010. It was a pivotal moment in computing, one that changed both computers and chess forever.

Two decades later, computers now regularly beat humans at chess, writes Klint Finley for Wired. The great contest of man-versus-computer chess is over. “Today, for $50, you can buy a home PC program that will crush most grandmasters,” Kasparov wrote. The search for a computer that can beat even the best at chess was only really interesting between 1994, when computers were too weak, and 2004, when they got too strong.  

Penny Red issued in 1841

 

The Penny Red is a British postage stamp, issued on 10 February 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main type of postage stamp in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 3 December 1879, with only minor changes to the design during that time. The colour was changed from black to red because of difficulty in seeing a cancellation mark on the Penny Black a black cancel was readily visible on a Penny Red.

Initially some of same plates that were used to print the Penny Black were used to print the Penny Red and stamp had no perforations, and had to be cut from the sheet using scissor in the same manner as for the Penny Black and the early printing of the two pence Blue.

Tom and Jerry first appeared in Puss Gets the Boot in 1940

  

On 10 February 1940, Tom and Jerry first appeared in Puss Gets the Boot.

Tom and Jerry is an American animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series centers on the rivalry between the titular characters of a cat and mouse named Tom and Jerry. Many shorts also feature several recurring characters.

Puss Gets the Boot is a 1940 American animated short film and is the first short in what would become the Tom and Jerry cartoon series, though neither were yet referred to by these names. It was directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera and Rudolf Ising, and produced by Fred Quimby and Rudolf Ising. It was based on the Aesop's Fable, The Cat and the Mice. As was the practice of MGM shorts at the time, only Rudolf Ising is credited. It was released to theaters on 10 February 1940, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.  

Kuriakose Elias Chavara Birth Anniversary

Kuriakose Elias Chavara, born on 10 February 1805, was an Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest, religious, philosopher and social reformer, He is the first canonised Catholic male saint of Indian origin and was a member of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic Church. Saint Chavara was instrumental in founding two Catholic Religious Congregations - one for men, Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), and the other for women, Congregation of Mother of Carmel (CMC), for the spiritual renewal and all-round development of the society.

Jagannath Shankar Murkute Birth Anniversary

Jagannath Shankar Murkute, born on 10 February 1803, he is well known as Jagannath ShankarSheth. His father Shankar Murkute had a business of jewellery and diamonds. He was from Daivadnya Brahmin community. His father earned lots of money in this business, that is why he was known as Shankar Sheth (A Wealthy man).

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Death Anniversary

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who passed away on 10 February 1923, was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of Röntgen's accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. The unit of measurement roentgen was also named after him.

Teddy Day

 

Teddy Day is the fourth day of Valentine's Week. It falls on February 10. People gift their partner or crush a teddy bear on this day to express their love and fondness for them. Since Valentine's week is about celebrating the feeling of being in love with pomp and grandeur, gifting teddy bears also becomes a part of that gesture.