Motto for Today: ‘A winner is a dreamer who never gives up’
As Everyday makes a new beginning in life, brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book; We bring out a new feature for our viewers, on historical importance of Each Day !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 31 July…….
1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor, calling himself ‘Alamgir’, meaning “Conqueror of the World.”
1849 – Benjamin Chambers was issued a U.S. patent for the breech loading cannon. The advantage of breech loading was to speed up the reloading process, allowing troops to fire more rounds per minute.
1861 – 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam becomes a world record.
1910 – Marconi telegraph signals were used in a murder case for the first time. American-born Dr Hawley Crippen and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, disguised as a boy, were arrested for the murder of his wife in England. Her remains were discovered 13 Jul 1910. She had been poisoned with hyoscine, an extract of the deadly plant henbane. An arrest warrant was issued 16 Jul 1910. Crippen was spotted mid-Atlantic as they sailed from Antwerp to Canada on the SS Montrose, the first ship to be equipped with radio-telegraph, and police in London were alerted by its skipper, Captain Kendall.
1965 – The last cigarette commercial appeared on British television.
1971 – Dave Scott became the first person to drive a vehicle on the Moon – the battery-powered Lunar Rover (LRV) – as part of the Apollo 15 mission to the mountainous Hadley-Apennine region. This LRV, the first to be carried on an Apollo mission, built by Boeing, weighed 460 lb and folded into a space 5 ft by 20 in.
1985 – Lalit Maken, Congress (I) MP, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists.
1985 – Indian writer R.K. Narayan publishes his short story collection “Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories”.
2003- Felix Baumgartner became the first man to cross the English Channel by unpowered flight. He jumped from a plane about 9,800-m above Dover, England and glided 36-km across the Channel in a 10-min flight wearing a special suit with carbon-fibre wings across his back.
2012 A second power grid failure in India in two days leaves 670 million people without power.
2012 – Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medal winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team in London; Phelps’ 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold.
2019 – American officials announce Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza bin Laden and potential successor has been killed in US air strikes in Pakistan.
Born….
1880 – Nawab Rai Dhanpat Rai, Munshi ‘Prem Chand’, great litterateur, writer, editor, journalist and headmaster.
https://youtu.be/RjLcKn2vCH8 1911 – Pannalal Ghosh, flute player.
1947 – Mumtaz, actor.
1965 – Joanne [J. K.] Rowling, writer (Harry Potter novels).
RIP….
1940 – Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London.
1980 – Mohd Rafi, playback singer.
You may have known….
The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
Good afternoon. Have a nice day. {Compilation credits–Lt. Gen. Raj Kadyan (Retd.)}