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On this day, 28 July………………..

1858 – Gaspar Felix Tournachon, known as “Nadar” took the first airphoto in 1855 in a balloon. It was a view of the French village of Petit-Becetre taken from a tethered hot-air balloon, 80 meters above the ground. (Nadar’s earliest photographs no longer survive, and the oldest aerial photograph known to be still in existence is James Wallace Black’s image of Boston from a hot-air balloon, taken in 1860).

1858 – Fingerprints were used as a means of identification for the first time.

1866 – The use of the metric system was authorized by an act of US Congress as legally acceptable.

1900 – Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut. (Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, US, advertises itself as the first restaurant to serve hamburgers and as being the oldest hamburger restaurant still operating in the U.S. But other claimants and detractors exist).

1914 – World War I began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

1914 – Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden by Harry Fox.
(The Foxtrot originated by Vaudeville actor Harry Fox).

1932 – Battle between US unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die. (The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organisers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I’s American Expeditionary Forces, while the media called it the Bonus Army. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former army sergeant).

1933 – 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City. (A singing telegram is a message that is delivered by an artist in a musical form. Singing telegrams are historically linked to normal telegrams, but tend to be humorous and often given as a gift).

1942 – L.A. Thatcher of Stamford, USA, received by mail a patent for a coin-operated mailbox. Appropriately, Mr. Thatcher had patented a coin-operated mailbox. When money was inserted, a meter stamped the envelope.

1972 – India and Pakistan sign Simla Pact, settling border dispute in Kashmir.

1992 – Shiv Sena president Bal Thackeray is banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1995 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.

2016 – Earliest evidence of cancer found in 1.7 million-year-old toe fossil from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, published in “South African Journal of Science”.

2017 – Pakistan Supreme Court rules corruption accusations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif enough to remove him from office.

2018 – Longest “blood moon” eclipse of the 21st century, lasting 1 hour 43 minutes.

2021 – 19 year old gymnast Daiki Hashimoto of Japan becomes youngest Olympic men’s artistic individual all-around champion in history at the Tokyo Games.

Born….

1975 – Ayesha Jhulka, actor.

1983 – Dhanush, actor.

RIP….

1972 – Charu Majumdar, author of the historic accounts of the 1968 Naxalbari uprising. (His writings have become the ideology which guides red ‘revolutionaries’ even today).

2009 – Leela Naidu, actor.

You may have known….

A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.

Good morning. Have a nice day.

  {Compilation credits–Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Raj Kadyan}