Today’s Motto: ‘Getting knocked down is not a failure. Not getting up is’.

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

On this day, July 08………..
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage – becomes first European to reach India by sea.
1856 – Charles E. Barnes patents a crank operated machine gun. It was ahead of its time, but similar to other machine guns invented later. Although it was invented before the outbreak of the war, there is no evidence that it was used by either side.

1862 – Theodore R. Timby patented the revolving gun turret.

1881 – A patron came into Edward Berner’s drug store in Wisconsin, and sat down at the soda-fountain counter. Since it was the Sabbath, the customer couldn’t have the desirable, but scandalous, flavoured soda water. Berner compromised by putting ice cream in a dish and poured over it the chocolate syrup that was previously only served as flavouring in ice-cream sodas. That was an ice cream Sunday! The name became “sundae”, after the day on which Berner served it.

1954 -, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated world’s longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal in Punjab.

1996 – U.N. says India is leading in HIV infections.

1997 – 33 persons killed and 67 injured as blast rips through part of Ambala-bound train at Lehra Khana station in Bhatinda district, Punjab.

1999 – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” the 3rd book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published by Bloomsbury in the UK.

2021 – A tiny Leonardo da Vinci sketch “Head of a Bear”, the size of a post-it sells for £8.9 million at auction in London.

Born….

1914 – Jyoti Basu, politician.

1958 – Neetu Singh, Bollywood actress (pic credit – Pinterest).

1972 – Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer, who scored  centuries in 1st two Tests in 1996 (image credit- Business Standard).
You may have known….
Cats can’t taste sugar. They don’t have sweet taste buds.

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}