Motto of the Day: ‘Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain’
As Everyday makes a new beginning in life, brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book; We bring out a new feature for our viewers, on historical importance of Each Day !
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History !
On this day, 29 July……………
1588 – Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders.
1870 – America’s first asphalt pavement was laid in Newark. Previously, coal tar was used for many pavements laid in the 1860s. The first recorded asphalt pavement in the U.S. was a sand mix placed in front of the City Hall in Newark in 1870.
1874 – Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court.1899 – 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York.
1914 – Transcontinental telephone service began. It was celebrated with a telephone conversation between Thomas A. Watson in San Francisco and Alexander Graham Bell in New York City repeating their historic conversation from 1876.
1927 – The first iron lung (electric respirator) was installed at Bellevue hospital in New York for the post war polio epidemic.
1949 – BBC radio begins broadcasting.
1979 – Choudhary Charan Singh was sworn in as the fifth Prime Minister of India heading the Janata (S)-Congress coalition. He held this office till January 14, 1980.
1980 – India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics.
1983 – First Pilot-less Aeroplane of India was tested successfully by the Aeronautical Development Establishment near Kolar.
1987 – India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play.
1993 – Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha.
1999 – Bandh in Mumbai to protest against the verdict barring Bal Thackeray from voting and contesting any election till December 10.
2018 – Demonstrations calling for safer road by students begin in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Born….
1904 – J. R. D. Tata, industrialist.
1953 – Anup Jalota, Bhajan and Ghazal singer.
1959 – Sanjay Dutt, actor.
RIP….
2003 – Johnny Walker, actor.
2009 – Gayatri Devi, Ex-Maharani of Jaipur.
You may have known….
When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compilation credits- Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Raj Kadyan}
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