Today’s Motto: ‘You have to be able to tolerate what…..
you don’t necessarily like, so that you can be free'
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, 14 Jul….
1789 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris. It marked the beginning of the French Revolution. This event is celebrated annually as Bastille Day in France, the country’s national holiday.
1850 – The first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration in the U.S. took place during a dinner.
1867 – Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. In 1866 Nobel produced what he believed was a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin called dynamite. He established his own factory to produce it but in 1864 an explosion at the plant killed Nobel’s younger brother and four other workers. Deeply shocked by this event, he no
w worked on a safer explosive and in 1875 came up with gelignite.
1868 – Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut received the first U.S. patent for a spring tape measure.
1933 – A sterilization law was passed in Nazi Germany, known as Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring. Any German was a target if suffering from any conditions that were expected to be hereditary. Within a few years, up to an estimated 400,000 Germans were involuntarily sterilized in pursuit of this national goal of “racial hygiene,” to eliminate handicapped descendants. Most operations, often by female tubal ligations or male vasectomies, were done in 1934-37.
1942 – Britishers Quit India resolution was passed by Congress Working Committee. They demanded departure of British and agreed on passive resistance until India’s independence. It was declared on 8th August, 1942 at August 
Kranti Maidan (Gowalia Tank).
1951 – 1st colour telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race).
1999 – Scientists uncover possible reason for SS Waratah’s disappearance 100 years later. (The SS Waratah was a 500-foot long cargo liner steamship that operated between Europe and Australia in the early 1900s. In July 1909, the ship, en route from Durban to Cape Town, disappeared with 211 passengers and crew aboard. To this day, no trace of the ship has been found.
2013 – The world’s last telegram was sent in India. It was the last major country to shut down telegram service. India’s 163-year-old telegram service was no longer needed, as e-mail and texting had replaced bicycle telegram messengers. (The first formal telegram was sent by Samuel Morse in Washington to his business partner Alfred Vail in Baltimore, on 24 May 1844. In time, wires were strung across the U.S. and other coun
tries, which eventually were connected by a Transatlantic cable under the ocean and more submarine cables).
2014 – The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops.
2023 – I
ndia launches its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft from Sriharikota space centre on the country’s third moon mission. It landed on the South Pole of Moon’s surface on Aug. 23 and conducted experiments. The mission consists of a Vikram lunar lander and a Pragyan lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019.
Born…. 1656 – Guru Har Kishan, the eight Sikh, was born.
RIP…. 1963 – Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader.
1969 – 85 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.
You may have known…. 
The 4.94 km long Bogibeel Bridge over the Brahmaputra River in Assam is the longest rail-cum-road bridge in India. (Asia’s second longest rail-cum-road bridge).
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}