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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, 26 July…….
1910 – Unrest flares up in the Deccan region of India. Demand grows for self-determination.
1943 – Los Angeles, California, suffered smog so bad that visibility downtown was limited to three blocks. The noxious smog appeared during a heat wave, causing discomfort to throats and stinging eyes. A butadiene manufacturer was blamed, and temporarily closed, but it became clear it was not the primary source as smog conditions continued. From Oct 1943, the Smoke and Fumes Commission appointed by the city studied the problem. The causes it named were many: locomotive smoke, diesel truck fumes, back-yard rubbish burning plus the mountain topography, stagnant winds and atmospheric temperature inversions. (London, England, experienced a killer Great Smog on 5 Dec 1952).
1974 – Aspartame artificial sweetener was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (Years earlier, in Dec 1965, while working on an ulcer drug, James M. Schlatter had made the discovery that a mixture of two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalamine, had a sweet taste. By weight it was about 200 times sweeter than sugar, with very few calories. G.D. Seale marketed it as NutraSweet, a low-calorie artificial sweetener without the bitter aftertaste of saccharin).
1999 – Fighting ceases between India and Pakistan in the Kargil War, Kashmir, after two months of fighting.
2000 – The Centre imposes a ban on employing children below 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama era changes.
2017 – Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040.
Born….
1922 – Girilal Jain, famous journalist and editor.
1972 – Jugal Hansraj, actor.
Titbits….
1982 – Film star Amitabh Bachchan is seriously injured filming a fight scen
e for the movie “Coolie”
You may have known….
Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
{Compilation credits… Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Raj Kadyan}
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