On this Day: ‘A Leader is a Product of his Decisions and Actions’

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By NewsOnRadar Bureau Last updated Jul 16, 2024

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On July 22nd, year ….

1678 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.

1702 – The “English Company of Merchants” and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies. In 1833, this name finally changed to East India Company.

1918 – During the First World War, India’s first fighter pilot, Lt. Indra Lal Rai’s plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for British Force.

1933 – The first round-the-world solo flight (15,596 miles) was completed by Wiley Post, in 7 days 18hr 49min.

1952 – A U.S. patent for a “Self-Propelled Sprinkling Irrigating Apparatus” was issued to Frank L. Zybach of Strasburg, Colorado.

1983 – Dick Smith made the first solo helicopter flight around the world, taking a leisurely 11 months.

1989 – The youngest pilot to fly around the world, 11-year-old (4th grade) Tony Aliengena, returned to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, nearly seven weeks and 21,567 miles after taking off in a Cessna 210 Centurion. The around-the-world trip had included good will stops in the Soviet Union. The plane crashed while trying to take off from Alaska while the boy’s father was at the controls, giving his son a rest. There were no serious injuries, and the journey was completed. Early the previous year, while still age 9 years, he was the youngest pilot to cross the continental U.S.

1998 – 24-year-old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

1998 – India’s 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka.

2015 – The Brain Kids, a team of robots from Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology, wins 2015 RoboCup, a robotic football (soccer) tournament started 18 years earlier to encourage new developments in the robotics field.