On This Day
28 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1899 Field Marshal K M Cariappa, who became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, was born in Shanivarasanthe, Karnataka. He led Indian forces on the Western Front during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army in 1949.
- 1928 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman discovered the Raman effect for which he received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Raman effect is the change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules. This day is observed as National Science Day in India.
- 1936 Kamala Nehru, independence activist and the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, died at Lausanne, Switzerland. Her daughter Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India.
- 1948 The last British troops left India.
- 1963 Rajendra Prasad, independence activist, lawyer, scholar and subsequently, the first president of India, in office from 1950 to 1962, died at Patna.
- 1987 The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1749 First edition of Henry Fieldings' novel Tom Jones published.
- 1916 Henry James, American novelist and critic, died.
- 1922 Egypt was declared an independent country.
- 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick described their theory that two DNA strands were coiled in a double helix.
- 1991 The Persian Gulf War, an international conflict that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, ended as Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein accepted a cease-fire agreement.
- ⭐ Significance
- National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C V Raman on 28 February 1928. For his discovery, Sir C V Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
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