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On This Day

4 March

🇮🇳 In India
1974 Satyendra Nath Bose, mathematician and physicist specialising in theoretical physics, died at Kolkata. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, collaborating with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
🌎 Elsewhere
1774 First sighting of Orion nebula by William Herschel.
1924 Happy Birthday to You, the most popular English song in the world, made its first appearance in print in a songbook edited by Robert H. Coleman.
1975 Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin became Sir Charles after a knighting ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
2004 Facebook—social networking service originally launched by Mark Zuckerberg from his Harvard dormitory room as FaceMash on October 28, 2003—was given the present name.
⭐ Significance
National Security Day is celebrated annually on March 4 in India. This day is celebrated to honour the security forces of India and to commemorate the establishment of the National Safety Council (NSC).


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