Today’s Motto: ‘New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings’.

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

On this day, July 19……

1296 – Allau’d-din Khalji declared himself as King of Delhi after assassinating Jalal’ud-din Khalji.

1843 – The S.S. Great Britain, the world’s first all-metal liner, was launched from Bristol, England. With 322-ft overall length, it was the biggest ship of the time. It became the world’s first iron-hulled steamship to cross the Atlantic (1845). From being a luxury liner, it later became a ferry carrying troops to the Crimea and India, then a cargo ship, finally abandoned in the Falkland Islands following storm damage (1886). On this day in 1970, it was towed back to Bristol’s Great Western Dock (where it was originally built) to be restored by volunteers.

1877 – 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall {6-1 6-2 6-4} (Pic credit -Tete)

1900 – The Métropolitan subway (Métro) in Paris opened the first eight stations on its first line running east-west through the centre of the city. Within two months the total number of stations became 18.

1939 – Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.

1949 – Raja of Tehri Garhwal announces merger with Indian Union.

1955 – Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel. Water shortage is a severe problem in Israel. There is not much water in this area and the existing sources lie partly in Syria and Jordan. The Yarkon “flows” through the most densely populated areas of the country to the Mediterranean. The river has

deteriorated rapidly since the 1950’s due to excessive draining for irrigation by the National Water Carrier; with marked decline in water quality, animal habitats, flora and fauna. The National Water Carrier (1964), which crosses Israel from north to south, is the 81-mile main artery connecting all regional water projects in the State.

1961 – 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA.

1969 – Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidential ordinance.

1974 – Udham Singh’s, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London.

1987 – Rajiv Gandhi, Congress President, expels V.P. Singh from Congress and orders probe into Ajitabh Bachhan’s property abroad.

1994 – The Tamil Nadu Bill for continuance of the 69% reservation policy in the state receives the President’s assent.

2000 – The Centre has no locus standi in Thackeray case, says the Prime Minister Vajpayee and rejects the resignations of Shiv Sena nominees in the Union Cabinet– Manohar Joshi, Suresh Prabhu and Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil.

2001 – Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in the Djurab Desert, Chad. One of the oldest known species in the human family tree, 6-7 million years ago years old.

2015 – World Health Organization puts world’s Ebola death toll at 11,284.

Born….

1955 – Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties.

1961 – Harsha Bhogle, TV anchor, sports journalist.

RIP….

1982 – Mira Behn, disciple of Mahatma Gandhi (photo credits-Veethi)

1993 – Girilal Jain, journalist, former editor, Times Group)

 You may have known….

In camera terms, the human eye is about 576 megapixels.

 

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