Today’s Motto: ‘The entire world will make way for a man, who knows where he is going’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day 05 Jul….
1658 – Aurangzeb arrested Murad Baksh (Shah).
1687 – Isaac Newton’s great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
1865 – A lower speed limit – of 2 mph in town and 4 mph in the country – was imposed in Britain u
nder the Locomotives and Highways Act.
1905 – Lord Curzon joined the part of Bengal to Assam and divided Bengal.
1946 – Louis Reard’s two-piece swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show. (Louis Réard was a French automobile engineer and clothes designer. He is best known for lau
nching a two-piece swimsuit in 1946, which he called the bikini).
1947 – Indian Act, 1947 was presented in British Parliament, which was then accepted by the emperor on 18th July.
1952 – Thousands of onlookers watched the run of London’s last tram, which ran from Woolwich to New Cross.
1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
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62 – Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule.
1968 – Naval Submarine wing in Indian Naval Force came into existence with the arrival of the first submarine from the Soviet Union.
1977 – Pakistan’s army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power.(pic credit-gettyimages)
1981 – Rajan Srinivasan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory. He figured in Guinness Book of World Records in 1984, featured in Reader’s Digest and Larry King Live. He’s now a Distinguished Lecturer in Tennesse University, 
USA.
1996 – Dolly, a cloned sheep, was born at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland through efforts of Ian Wilmut, bio-scientist. (Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned). Wilmut born in on July 07, 1944 was awarded with OBE, Fellowship of Royal Society of Medical Sciences and FRS (pic credit-nyt.com).
2000 – The Prime Minister Vajpayee rules out restoring pre-1953 status to Jam
mu and 
Kashmir.
2000 – Indian athlete Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha’s long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore.
Born….1882 – Hazrat Inayat Khan, classical singer and Muslim mystic. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music.
You may have known…. Railway Station with all the Three Gauges is the Siliguri Railway Station
[Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}