On This DAY: ‘Leadership is the art of unlocking people’s potential to become better.’

This is Your Day. TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History ! 

On this day, 23 July…….

1715 – The first lighthouse in America was authorized by the Boston Light Bill for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts. It has guided ships since its lantern was first ‘lighted’, just before sunset, on 14 Sep 1716. In the 1600s, treacherous rocks caused countless loss of lives. False signal fires lit in the wrong places by “wreckers” lured ships aground to plunder. Boston Light was blown up by the British in 1776, but rebuilt in 1783 by Governor John Hancock. The lighthouse is also the last remaining manned station in the U.S.

1829 – William Austin Burt, a surveyor, of Mount Vernon, Michigan, received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter. The Patent Office fire of 1836 destroyed the original patent model. Burt’s typographer was a heavy, box-like contraption, made almost entirely of wood, like today’s familiar toy typewriter.

1886 – Gottlieb Daimler invented his first car. Daimler patented a high speed, petrol-fueled, four stroke engine in 1885 which he installed in a crude wooden bicycle frame, and so invented the motorbike.

1888 – Scottish John Boyd Dunlop, applied to patent the pneumatic tyre as “an improvement in the tyres or wheels for bicycles, tricycles and other road tyres. To improve his son’s bicycle, Dunlop developed it. He formed a company in 1889 and with help from the demonstrated benefit on racing bicycles, Dunlop had a successful product. These first tyres were glued to the wheel rim.

1903 – Ford Motor sells 1st Model A car.

1990 – Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.

2010 – Comet Hale–Bopp discovered.

2010 – The world’s record heaviest hailstone fell in Vivian, South Dakota weighing 1-lb 15-oz, and size 8.0-in diam

. (A larger hailstone is said to have fallen on 14 Apr 1986 that weighed 2-lb 4-oz during a hailstorm in Bangladesh that killed 92 people).

2018 – Environmental reports finds China on track to reach new emission targets, but carbon dioxide emissions risen – 9.2 billion metric tons in 2017, more than US and Europe combined.

2019 – Investigation launched after no girls born in three months in 132 villages in Uttarkashi district, India, with sex-selective abortions suspected as the reason.

2021 – At least 164 people die in floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in Maharashtra.

Born….

1856 – Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and militant nationalist who helped lay the foundation for India’s independence.

1906 – Chandrashekhar Azad, great freedom revolutionary and leader.

RIP….

2004 – Mehmood, actor.

You may have known….

Great white Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.

Have a nice day.

 

 

(Compilation Credits–Lt. General (Retd.) Raj Kadyan)