The date of 22 February is recorded in the history of the country and the world for many important reasons. This date is remembered in the world of science for ‘Clone’. Actually, for years scientists had been trying to create clones, but could not succeed. He thought why not try it on sheep, but this was also not easy because the scientists had failed 227 times. Eventually, he succeeded and for the first time, ‘Dolly’, a sheep made through cloning, was born. This was a sheep that was not born but was created by scientists in the lab.
The world was shocked when a team of scientists from Scotland’s Roslin Institute announced this on February 22, 1997. Although this cloned sheep was born on July 5, 1996, it was only announced seven months later. The sheep was named after American singer and actress Dolly Parton. This was the first time that scientists had created a clone from a cell. For this the technique of nucleus transfer was adopted. Two sheep were taken in it. One white sheep and the other black faced sheep. Scientists took the nucleus from white sheep cells and implanted it into black sheep’s cells (eggs). After this, Dolly the sheep was born. When Dolly was born, she was completely white. At the age of two, Dolly gave birth to her first lamb. Her name was Bonnie. After that Dolly gave birth to five more lambs.
By the year 2001, Dolly started falling ill. His condition became very bad. On February 14, 2003, Dolly was killed by an overdose of medications. He was given euthanasia. When Dolly was born, doctors expected her to live 11-12 years, but Dolly died at just six and a half years. When the post-mortem was done after his death, it was found that he had lung cancer. Sheep often get this disease. After Dolly’s death, her body was donated to the National Museum of Scotland. Even today his body is kept in the museum here. Keith Campbell and Ian Willmott were responsible for creating this sheep.
Important Events
- 1495: The army led by French King Charles (VIII) reached Naples (Italy).
- 1746: French army captured Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
- 1775: Jews were expelled from the outskirts of Warsaw, the capital of Poland.
- 1784: America’s first merchant ship left New York for trade with China.
- 1845: East India Company purchased Serampore and Balasore from the Dutch East India Company.
- 1848: Uprising in Paris over the failure of the Louis Philippe regime.
- 1907: The first metered cab operates in London.
- 1935: Flying of airplanes was banned over the White House.
- 1942: During World War II, tribes in the Philippines wiped out large numbers of Japanese soldiers.
- 1964: One-party governance system implemented in Ghana.
- 1974: Pakistan recognized Bangladesh.
- 1980: Martial law implemented in Afghanistan.
- 1990: The last statue of Stalin was also removed from Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
- 1996: Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery-75 into orbit.
- 1999: India’s eminent economist Jagdish Bhagwati was appointed to the post of head of the Center for Indian Political Economy at Columbia University.
- 2005: Earthquake in Iran. More than 400 people died.
- 2006: Japan banned the import of all poultry products, including meat and eggs, from India.
- 2007: Thatcher’s bronze statue was installed in the British Parliament.
- 2008: Britain and France presented a revised proposal for sanctions against Iran to the Security Council.
- 2011: 181 people died in an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale in Christchurch city of New Zealand.
Birth
- 1732: America’s first President Washington.
- 1788: German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
- 1856: Swami Shraddhanand, famous freedom fighter and supporter of women’s education.
- 1878: Bengali language poet, lyricist and musician Mukund Das.
- 1889: Nationalist leader and freedom fighter Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.
- 1892: Indulal Yagnik, famous politician of Gujarat.
- 1906: Renowned Hindi poet Sohan Lal Dwivedi.
- 1914: Devkant Barua, former president of the Indian National Congress.
Death
- 1847: Indian freedom fighter Narasimha Reddy.
- 1944: Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1958: Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of India.
- 1982: Famous Urdu poet Josh Malihabadi.
- 1993: Former Chief Minister of Haryana Bhagwat Dayal Sharma.
