Today - January 24

And now here is – January 24^th.

A brilliant day in the history of educational developments. This day in 1826 the Mississippi College was founded in Clinton which became the first college in the state of Mississippi. Then in 1857, exactly after 100 years from the “War of Palasi” The University of Calcutta was formally founded as the first full-fledged university in whole of South Asia. Though India saw Sipahi Bidroho in the same year where Bengal was a crucial point and the whole country was going through a violent time, serious thought processes were put behind for educational infrastructure development. I am not sure if that has anything to do with the fact that Bengal kept of producing the brightest personalities of the nation then.

However on the same day in 1848 something big happened. A person named James W. Marshall who was an American Carpenter and sawmill operator by profession, found gold in the American River in California. This set the stage for the California Gold Rush. Unfortunately Marshall was forced from his own land by the resulting wave of gold seekers in that place, and personally was never profited from his own discovery. Its reported that nearly 3,00,000 people came to California in search of gold. Gold worth of billions of dollars in today’s value was found and many people were profited from this. But the biggest impact was that, California became a completely sustained city which was earlier a place of only few thousands.

Jai Gurudev!
Love!