28 February - Srinivasa Ramanujan became the youngest Fellow in the history of the Royal Society

 

28 February  1918 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, just 31, became the youngest Fellow in the history of the Royal Society. Way back in 1841, Ardaseer Cursetjee, a shipbuilder and engineer was the first Indian to be elected to the Royal Society and Ramanujan became the second.