Today’s Motto: ‘Some people get lost in thought, because it is unfamiliar territory’.

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

On this day, July 30………

1739 – German immigrant Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in New Jersey, US. (Earlier glass making in America, since1608, failed as the British Crown discouraged it due to high taxes, so they could sell their own glass wares to the colonies).

1898 – ‘Scientific American’ carried the first magazine automobile advertisement bringing Alexander Winton returns for his $1000 car. The Winton Motor Car Company of Ohio, invited readers to “dispense with a horse” this day.

1898 – Corn Flakes were invented by William Kellogg. At Battle Creek Sanitarium, the two Kellog brothers invented many grain-based foods, including a coffee substitute, a type of granola, and peanut butter to provide patients a strict nutritious diet. In 1894 they unintentionally invented a flaked cereal process based on wheat. By 1898, W.K. Kellogg had developed the first flaked corn cereal. Patients enjoyed the cereals and wanted more to take home. In 1906, the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company was founded by W.K. Kellogg.

1908 – Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris.

1909 – Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army.

1935 – 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution. (Penguin Books is a British publishing house. Penguin revolutionised publishing through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence).

1945 – The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. Only 316 out of 1,196 men aboard survived the attack.

1947 – The part of Kashmir, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), was swallowed up by Pakistan; the formality of raising the flag being done in November.

1956 – The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto.

2018 – Four million people excluded from Assam National Register of Citizens in India prompts fears of deportation, loss of citizenship.

2022 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for mandatory evacuation of civilians from eastern Donetsk region amid fierce fighting.

Born….

1863 – Henry Ford, American inventor and automobile manufacturer.

Born….

1928 – Sulochana Devi, actor.

1963 – Mandakini, actor.

1973 – Sonu Nigam, singer/actor.

RIP….

1622 – Goswami Tulsidas, devotee of God Rama, Saint, great poet and writer of Ramayana. (30/7 or 23/10).

You may have known.

The highest recorded fever ever was 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

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