Today’s Motto: ‘Narrower the mind, wider the mouth’
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, 12 Jul….
1109 – Crusaders capture Syria’s harbor city of Tripoli (map credit-vecteezy.com).
1674 – Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company.
1844 – Captain J.N. Taylor of the Royal Navy first demonstrated the fog horn,
1862 – US Congress authorises Medal of Honor. (The Medal of Honor is the United States of America’s highest military honour, awarded for personal acts of valour above and beyond the call of duty. The medal is awarded by the President to U.S. military personnel only).
1906 – The first long-distance wireless telegraphy message across water in the southern 
hemisphere was transmitted over 300-km across Bass Strait islands of Australia. (map credit-fity.club)
1928 – 1st televised tennis match at Wimbledon, England (pic credit-canberratimes.com.au).
1949 – Ban on RSS lifted on the assurance that it abjures alleged violen
ce.
1957 – Dwight Eisenhower became the 1st US President to fly in helicopter.
1970 – Major flood in Alaknanda river near Chamoli (Uttrakhand), resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
1999 – Indian PM Vajpayee, sets a deadline for remaining Pakistani intruders of withdrawal from Kargil, announces suspension of air strikes until then. It was dne on request by United States and 
UN leaders, while India had won the Kargil War.
2000 – 67 persons died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Ghatkopar, a Mumbai suburb.
2001 – In
dia and Bangladesh ‘Maitri’ bus service covering Agartala-Dhaka-Kolkata route by road started (pic credit-thehindu.com).
2017 – World’s largest iceberg (later christened A-68) breaks away from L
arsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, about 6,000 sq km in length.
2018 – World’s longest fingernails are cut off; Indian man Shridhar Chillal’s left-hand nails measured a combined total of 909.6 c
m (358.1 inches) after growing for 66 years.
Born…. 1909 – Bimal Roy, film director. He produced many movies in Bengali and Hindi. and won many International Prizes at the Cannes Film Festi val and others. Madhumati won 9 Filmfare Awards in 1958, a record held for 37 years. by any South Asians Director. Bimal Roy produced/directed classic films Do Bigha Zamin, Bandini, Sujata, Madhumati, Biraj Bahu, Prem Patra, Pehla Aadmi, Hamrahi, Parineeta, Parakh, Kabuliwala and Devdas (original with KL Sehgal as hero and singer) etc. His team included directors, singers like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Nabendu Ghosh, Salil Chaudhury, SD Burman, Asit Sen, Kamal Bose who became legends later. He won 7 Filmfare awards between 1953-62) and National Film awards, many international awards like Palmed’Or twice for Biraj Bahu, Sujata. He won 6 National Awards and 11 Filmfares in all.
1983 – Munaf Patel, Gujarat state cricketer. Also played for West Zone in Duleep Trophy and Ranji matches. He had many controversies on match-fixing in 2018 and sex assault allegations 
by some Dawood Ibrahim associate goons.
1997 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist who pleaded for Girls’ education in Pakistan. She ran out of Pakistan due to opposition by fundamentalists in her country and was fired in the head by Tehrik-e-Taliban terrorist but she survived. . She was awarded Nobel Peace Prize at young age of 17 in 2014 alongwith India’s Kailash Satyarthi for Children’s education, Social issues etc. Malala now lives in England and Canada.
RIP…. 1489 – Bahlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan and founder of Lodi dynasty.
1999 – Rajendra Kumar, legendary film actor who acted in more than 150 films. Almost every film of Rajendra Kumar was 
such a hit that people used to call him ‘Jubilee Kumar’. He was active in films in the 1960s and 1970s. He also produced and directed several films. His most popular films were Mother India, Patanga, Goonj Uthi Shehnai, Raajkumar, Aarzoo, Kanoon, Pyar Ka Sagar, Aayi Milan Ki Bela, Anjana, Shatranj, Dil Ek Mandir, Mere Mehboob etc. He won a National Film award and many Filmfare award nominations.
2013 – Pran Krishna Sikand (Ahluwalia), a legendary villain, hero and character actor in Hindi films. Pran was the
kind of actor who always has makeup on his face and a storm of emotions, who pours his life into each character to make him feel that without him the character would have been worthless.He acted in 362 films over his cine career between 1940s to 2007. Some of his films are Khandaan, Pipli Saheb, Halaku, Madhumati, Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai, Shaheed, Sharabi, Upkaar, Raam Aur Shyam, Purab Aur Pachhim, Johnney Mera Naam, Victoria No. 203, Beimaan, Zanjeer, Amar Akbar Anthny, He was awarded Padma Bhushan, Dafasaheb Phalke Award, a National Film Award, 4 Fiomfare, 3 BFJA and several other awards.
You may have known…. The Indian Army built a Bailey Bridge in the Ladakh valley, between the Dras and Suru rivers, in 1982. This bridge is the highest in the world in terms of elevation. 
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
