Today’s Motto: ‘It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory’.

This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!

On this day, July 20……..

1905 – First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government’s Minister of India.

1957 – India’s biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.

1969 – Apollo XI astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. Armstrong stepped on the lunar surface at 10:56 ET and proclaimed, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Internationally, nearly 700 million television viewers witnessed the event live as it happened.

1976 – America’s “Viking I Lander” spacecraft, launched 20 Aug 1975, made its successful, first-ever landing on Mars at Chryse Planitia, and began transmitting pictures.

1989 – Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.

2000 – In a nationwide swoop, IT Department officials search the residences of cricketers Kapil Dev, Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja and former ICC Chairman Jagmohan Dalmiya and recover incriminating documents.

2017 – China announces a plan against “foreign garbage” banning 24 categories of plastic and recyclable waste from 2018.

2017 – Elon Musk tweets he has “verbal government approval” to build 29 minute Hyperloop between New York and Washington.

2020 – Scientists find evidence of volcanoes on Venus, showing the planet is not as dormant as previously thought (Nature Geoscience).

2021- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos goes into space in first unpiloted suborbital flight with all-civilian crew, aboard rocket developed by his company Blue Origin.

2021 – Torrential rain causes severe flooding in China’s Hunan province, flooding subways with people still on the trains, killing at least 12 people in Zhengzhou city.

2022 – An intense heatwave across Europe results in over 1000 deaths in Portugal and 500 in Spain; while starting wildfires across Spain, France, Italy and Greece.

Born….

1531 – Tulsidas, Mahakavi, Saint who write Ram Charit Manas and Manuman Chalisa in couplets

1950 – Nasiruddin Shah, Bollywood actor.

1980 – Gracy Singh, Bollywood actor (pic credit- FilmiBaat)

RIP….

1972 – Geeta Dutt, Bollywood actor and singer.

You may have known….

Rabbits jump in the air and twist their bodies when they are happy.

 

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}