Today’s Motto: ‘Someimes it’s better to let the Silence do the Talking’
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, 31 Jul….
1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor, himself as ‘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.
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.
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. In sub-zero air, the 34-yr-old Austrian’s flight began at about 220 mph, slowing to around 135 mph by the time he landed by parachute.
2019 – American officials announce that Osama Bin Laden’s son, Hamza bin Laden, a potential successor, has been killed in US airstrikes in Pakistan where his father Osama was also killed by American Air Force using Drones in 2014.
Born…. 1880 – N
awab Rai\Dhanpat Rai, Munshi Prem Chand, great litterateur, writer, editor, journalist and school headmaster. His novels Do Bigha Zamin, Lagaan, Shatranj ke Khiladi, Nirmala, Gaban, Karambhoomi, Bazaar-e-Husn, Rangbhoomi, Prerna, Zamana, Idgah and others were very popular and were filmed by legendary film directors Bimal Rai and Satyajit Ray.
1947 – Mumtaz (Askari Madhwani), iconic Bollywood actress who did most films (with legendary Hero Rajesh Khanna, like Do Raaste, Aap Ki Kasam, Apna Desh, Saccha Jhootha, Aadmi Aur Insaan, Khilona, Bandhan, Roti etc. and more with Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor and others like Tere Mere Sapne, hare Rama Hare Krishna, Baghi, Brahamchari, Rustam-e-Hind, Tarzan Comes To Delhi, Tarzon and King Kong etc. She won 2 Filmfare and a Bengal Film Journalists award and other accolades. ( video credit-Shemaroo.com)
1965 – Joanne [J. K.] Rowling, world famous writer (Harry Potter novels) which were also converted into TV serials and generated tremendous popularity and re4venue. Her estimated worth is over $ One billion.
1985 – Lalit 
Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi, were shot down by terrorists.
1992 – Kiara Advani, Bollywood actress. She did MS Dhoni biopic and 
Satyaprem Ki Katha, Shershaah, Fugli, Good Newws, Kabir Singh, Laxmi, Indu Ki Jawani, Bhool Bhulaiayaa-2, Jugjug Jio etc. She married actor Siddharth Malhotra in 2023.(pic credit-indiatimes)
RIP…. 
1940 – Shaheed Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, who went to England for study but joined Ghadar Party and HSRA set up by Indian Freedom fighters. He killed British General Micharl O’Dyre who had ordered fire on peaceful meeting of freedom fighter in Jalianwala Bagh in Amritsar on April 13, 1919 and over 3000 Indian were killed, several injured. He was arrested and hanged by the British Government in a London Jail.
1980 – Mohd. Rafi, one of the most popular and successful Indian playback singers. Credited to have sung about 26,000 songs, most of which are hit and evergreen.
You may have known….Only the continent of Africa exceeds the linguistic, genetic and cultural 
diversity of the nation of India.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}