Important Events Of February-1

Important Events Of February-1

Omandur Ramasamy Birthday

Birth:

• He was Born in February 1,1895.

Honours:

• He is a Tamil politician from the Indian National Congress.
• He was appointed Chief Minister of the Madras Presidency in 1947 With the support of Kamarajar.
• He served as Chief Minister until April 1949.
• During his tenure, the Madras Temple Entry Authorization Act 1947 was passed.This act was intended to give Dalits and other prohibited Hindus full and complete rights to enter Hindu temples.
• He also abolished the Zamin and Inamadar methods.
• He took steps against corruption.
• He enacted the Hindu Religious Endowments Act.
• He brought the law to abolish the Devadasi system in Hindu Temple.
• Omandur Ramasamy Reddy’s memorial manimandapam created by the Tamil Nadu government at Omantur in Villupuram district.
• The India Post department has been published in Postal Stamp the memory of Omandur Ramasamy Reddy.

Death:

• He died on 25-8-1970.

Kalpana Chawla Memorial Day

Birth:

• She was Born on 1 July 1961.

Honours:

• Kalpana in Sanskrit means fiction.
• Kalpana joined NASA Astronaut Training Group in March 1995.In 1996 She was selected for his first trip.
• The first Indian woman who went on a spacecraft after Rakesh Sharma who traveled to the Soviet spacecraft in 1984.
• On his first visit to Kalpana, She traveled 360 hours from space, traveling around 10.67 million kilometers and traveled 252 times around the Earth.

Awards:

• The space medal given by the US Congress.
• NASA Space Flight Medal.
• NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
• Karnataka government has been awarded Kalpana Chawla since 2004 to encourage young female scientists.

Planet Name:

• Kalpana Chawla is named after an asteroid 51826 discovered on July 19, 2001. The planet’s temperature is 159k, with an average speed of 16.5 km per second.

Death:

• She died on February 1, 2003.

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