Today’s Motto: ‘The beginning is the most important part of the work’.

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

On this day, July 06………..

1782 – British-French sea battle at Negapatam, off India. (The Battle of Negapatam was the third in the series of battles fought between a British fleet and a French fleet off the coast of India during the Anglo-French War. The French attempted to take the British held port of Negapatam but were frustrated and had to withdraw).

1858 – A shoemaker named Lyman Blake of Abington town patented the first shoe-sole machine. His invention revolutionised the shoe industry and helped establish Plymouth County as the nation’s shoe manufacturing capital. Factories were built in the area. During the Civil War, the area grew rich shodding the Union Army.

1885 – French scientist Louis Pasteur and his colleagues injected the first of 14 daily doses of rabbit spinal cord suspensions containing progressively inactivated rabies virus into 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been severely bitten by a rabid dog 2 days earlier. The immunisation was successful. This was the beginning of the modern era of immunisation, which had been presaged by Edward Jenner nearly 100 years earlier. Pasteur’s rabies immunisation procedure was rapidly adopted throughout the world. (The boy grew up and became caretaker of the Pasteur Institute until age 64).

1886 – Horlick’s of Wisconsin offered the first malted milk to the public.

1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.

1905 – John Walker’s fingerprints were the first ones to be exchanged by police officials in Europe and America.

1920 – A radio compass was used for first time for aircraft navigation. An F5L left Hampton Roads and flew directly to the battleship Ohio, 94 miles at sea in a position unknown to the pilot.

1924 – 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England.

1928 – 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY.
1960 – The Indian President promulgates the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA).

1992 – The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers in India.

2000 – India, Nepal sign agreement to set up a specialist joint unit to counter terrorism and share information about criminals operating along the border.

2006 – The Nathu La (Pass) between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

2017 – France announces it will ban petrol and diesel cars by 2040.

2020 – America officially begins withdrawing from the World Health Organization.

Born….

1901 – Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader. He was the founder of the “Bharatiya Jana Sangh”, of which BJP is the successor party.

1927 – Prabhjot Kaur, great poet and author.

1935 – 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader of Tibet’s Lamaistic Buddhists.

1946 – Sylvester Stallone, actor/director.

1985 – Ranveer Singh, actor.
RIP….

1986 – Babu Jagjivan Ram, politician and freedom fighter. He held many prominent ministerial portfolios. His uninterrupted representation in the Parliament from 1936 to 1986 is a world record.

2002 – Dhirubhai Ambani, businessman. (Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani was a business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries in Bombay with his cousin. He had been figured in the The Sunday Times top 50 businessmen in Asia. Ambani took Reliance Industries public in 1977 and

combined fortune of the family was $60 billion, making the Ambanis the third richest family in the world).
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Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without a permanent river.

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