Today’s Motto: ‘It is not the length of life, but its depth’.

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

On this day, July 23……..

1715 – The first lighthouse in America was authorised 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. It 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-fuelled, 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 (became Dunlop Rubber Co in 1900), 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.

1952 – The Free Officers, a nationalistic military group led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, engineered a coup that overthrew King Farouk I of Egypt, ending the monarchy and bringing Nasser to power.

1904 – Ice cream cone created during St Louis World Fair – the 1st cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches.
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.
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.
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.
Titbits….
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).
You may have known….

We carry, on average, about four pounds of bacteria around in our body.

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