Today’s Motto: ‘Once the cart is broken many will tell you where the potholes are’

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

On this day, 03 Jul….

1661 – Portugal gives Tangier & Bombay to English King Charles II.

1760 – Maratha army, under Sadashiv Rao Bhau and Vishvas Rao, captured Dehli.

1886 – Karl Benz drove the first automobile in the world in Mannheim, Germany, reaching a top speed of 10 mph .

1928 – 1st colour TV broadcast in London.

1929 – Foam rubber was developed at the Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories in Birmingham.

1936 – Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge  University  MCC. He also becvame a Squash chamion and won 6 global chamionships for Pakistan.

1987 – British millionaire Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first to cross the Atlantic by hot-ai r balloon, named Virgin Atlantic Flyer. They travelled a distance of 2,900 miles from from Sugarloaf Mountain, Maine, in 33 hours to set a new record for hot air ballooning (

1989 – The movie “Batman” set record of quickest $100 million (10 days).  American Superhero comic books and animation series created by artist Bob Kane and writer  Bill Finger in March 1939 in Detective Comics. (feature photo credit-powerandnight.blog)

1996 – 25 to 30% hike in prices of petroleum products in India.

Born….1962 – Tom Cruise, American, Hollywood  icon. He won 4 Academy, 3 Golden Globe and Palme  d’Or  honours.  His net worth is $ 600 million.

You may have known….

42 Railway companies operated in the country before Independence (including Nilgiri  Mountain Railway and  famous  Darjeeling Railway Loop.)

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