Today’s Motto: ‘A truth told with bad intent beats all the lies’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in the History Books!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 15 Jul….
1795 – “Marseillaise” becomes French national anthem.
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815 – Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
1904 – 1st Buddhist temple in Los Angeles, United States is opened. It’s called Hompa Hogwanji temple built in over 15 acres. (pic credit-pinterest.com).
1929 -First Airport Hotel opens (Oakland California).
1869 – Margarine was patented by Hippolyte Mège Mouriés in France. He won the contest held by Emperor Napoleon III to find a substitute for butter used by the French Navy. His formula included a fatty component that mixed to a pearly luster, so he named his product after the Greek word for pearl – margaritari.
1915 – The first motor bus service was started in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1932 – US President Herbert Hoover cuts own salary 15%. He ruled America from 1929 to 1933.
1948 – Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain.
1954 – The first commercial jet transport airplane built in US – the Boeing 707, the model 367-80, made its maiden flight.
1955 – The first President Dr. Rajendra Prasad announced th
e Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award, to the then Prime Minister of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru.
1979 – Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India. He was elected PM in 1977 when Janata Party came into power after Emergency. Jagjivan Ram was elected Janata Parliamentary party leader and became a Dy. PM under Chaudhary Charan Singh as PM.
1986 – India protests against China’s intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh.
1991 – The 25-day-old Narasimha Rao government wins a vote of confidence in Lok Sabha by securing 241 to 111; 112 ab
stained.
2000 – The Maharashtra Government gives the green signal to police to proceed against Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray for his alleged role in the 1992-93 Mumbai communal riots.
2011 – India successfully put the advanced communication Satellite GSAT-12 into space 
orbit by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
Born…. 1783 – Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, gr
eat Indian Merchant, Industrialist and philanthropist. He aided famine relief, financed public works like wells, roads, causeways and bridges; founded dispensaries and hospitals; established educational institutions and scholarship funds; etc. He was receipent of a Knighthood and many medals.
1903 – Kumaraswamy Kamaraj, a South Indian politician who rose to be Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. popularly known as Kamarajar, an Indian freedom fighter and served as the president of the Indian National Congress for two terms. He announced the names of Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi as PMs in 1964 and 1966. He is much known for his Kamraj Plan, for reorganising Congress Party in 1967-68, when PM Indira had become unpopular and had unstable Govt. He got resignations of all senior Congressmen, to induct fresh faces in Govt. and 
Party organisation.
RIP…. 1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50. He was a famous businessman and socialite. He founded the famous brand Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings a
nd clothes. (pic displaying his dress designs; credit-senatus.net)
You may have known…. Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called “the Ancient City” when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world. today. It’s also believed to have been the abode of Lord Shiva, who selected it for meditation. Also known as Mukti Dhaam, because it is believed, whoever gets cremation here gets eternal salvation. There are about 80 Ghats (like Dashmesh Ghat, Assi Ghat, Holkar Ghat etc. ) for cremation of devotee Hindus after death. (feature photo credit-
pinterest.uk.co). {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
