Today’s Motto: ‘Ordinary life can also be pretty complex’.

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

On this day, July 22………

1678 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.

1702 – The “English Company of Merchants” and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies. In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company.

1918 – During the First World War, India’s first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai’s plane was shot down in battle by German planes near London. Rai had fought for British Force.

1933 – The first round-the-world solo flight (15,596 miles) was completed by Wiley Post, in his single-engine Lockheed Vega 5B aircraft “Winnie Mae,” in 7 days 18hr 49min.

1952 – A U.S. patent for a “Self-Propelled Sprinkling Irrigating Apparatus” was issued to Frank L. Zybach of Strasburg, Colorado.

1983 – Dick Smith made the first solo helicopter flight around the world, taking a leisurely 11 months.

1989 – The youngest pilot to fly around the world, 11 year old (4th grade) Tony Aliengena, returned to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, nearly seven weeks and 21,567 miles after taking off in a Cessna 210 Centurion. The around-the-world trip had included good will stops in the Soviet Union. The plane crashed while trying to take off from Alaska while the boy’s father was at the controls, giving his son a rest. There were no serious injuries, and the journey was completed. Early the previous year, while still age 9 years, he was the youngest pilot to cross the continental U.S.

1998 – 24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

2015 – The Brain Kids, a team of robots from Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology, wins 2015 RoboCup, a robotic football (soccer) tournament started 18 years earlier to encourage new developments in the robotics field.

2018 – US President Donald Trump threatens Iran in an all-caps tweet of “consequences” in response to speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

2019 – India’s lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 successfully takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota aiming to be fourth nation to soft-land on the moon.

2019 – French submarine Miner rediscovered off coast of Toulon, France, after disappearing in 1968 with loss of 52 crew.

2022 – Droupadi Murmu,  is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India.

Born….

1923 – Mukesh, singer.
1925 – Homi Jehangir Teleyarkhan, social worker.

Titbits….

1998 – Sahib Singh Verma, Delhi Chief Minister, and BJP vice-president K. L. Sharma are fined Rs. 100 each for riding a motorcycle without helmet in New Delhi (pic credit – Rediff.com).
You may have known….

World record for greatest duration for a single lighting flash of 17.1 seconds during thunderstorm over Uruguay and Argentina according to World Meteorological Organization.

 

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