Today’s Motto: ‘Ideas are not responsible for what we do with them’
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 History Book
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 04 Jul.…
1776 – US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain.
1789 – British East India Company signed a treaty with the Nizam of Hydrabad and Peshwa of
Pune against Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, on the understanding that a cavalry of 10,000 would attack Tipu’s territory and the conquered area would be divided amongst the three.
1802 – US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY).
1828 – The first U.S. hotel to instal bathrooms was the Tremont House, Boston, for which the cornerstone was laid today.
1865 – The first edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was directed and published by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske in July 1865.
1874 – The first steel-arch bridge in the U.S. was opened.
1884 – Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris.
1920 – Scientists at Dupont’s Redpath laboratory conducting an experiment, researching for a nitrocellulose pencil lacquer, by accident discovered duco.
1999 – Over 500 children of Kargil migrants take out a procession to Batalik in a show of solidarity with the Indian Army.
2002 – An eleph
ant’s two tusks were fitted with stainless steel dental caps at the Calgary Zoo, Alberta, Canada.
2019 – Egypt claims 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun bust is stolen as it sells 
for $6 million at auction at Christies.
2021 – Resea
rchers reveal there are 14 living descendants of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. He was an Italian mathematician, architect and sculptor (April 15, 1452-May 02, 1519).
Born….
1790 – Welsh military engineer and geodesist George Everest, who worked on the trigonometrical survey of India providing the accurate mapping of the subcontinent. Born in England, he migrated to India at age 16 and worked with senior surveyors. He surveyed maps andb location across Indian borders during East India Company rule and was appointed Surveyor General of India in Though he never scaled the world tallest mountain Everest snow-clad mountain, it was named after him bue to his selection of Andrew Scott Waugh for the survey task. He got malaria and spent some time in Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Mount Everest, formerly called Peak XV, 
was renamed in his honour in 1865.
1900 – Swami Shivanand Saraswati, yoga and spiritual leader of India.
RIP…. 1902 – Swami Vivekananda, (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta), Indian Hindu spiritual leader, a disciple of Swami Ramakrishna Patramhans and a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. He taught Yoga, Hindu scriptures, Sanatan way of Life. He addressed the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago, America in Sept. 1893 when he addressed the gathering as ….Brothers and Sisters of America and mesmerizes the audience with his spiritual oratory, knowledge and fellowship. He founded Rakakrishna Mission and wrote over 19 books of varied subjects of spiritual, Vedanta, Yoga and Indian way of Life. He died while meditating, at 39, after teaching his disciples for over 3 hours.
You may have known….
India is the largest English speaking nation in the world. (English language was thrust upon Indian population by (Lord) TB Macaulay, a British educationist, historian during 1835-59. {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}