Today’s Motto: .The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection’.

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

On this day, July 12……….
1109 – Crusaders capture Syria’s harbour city of Tripoli.

1674 – Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company.

1817 – 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland).

1844 – Captain J.N. Taylor of the Royal Navy first demonstrated the fog horn. At the time, it was called a telephone – to mean far-signalling, thus an instrument like a fog-horn, used on ships, railway trains, etc., for signalling by loud sounds or notes. The chief object of this powerful wind instrument is to convey signals during foggy weather.

1859 – The paper bag manufacturing machine was patented by William Goodale, US.

1862 – US Congress authorises Medal of Honor. (The Medal of Honor is the United States of America’s highest military honour, awarded for personal acts of valour above and beyond the call of duty. The medal is awarded by the President to U.S. military personnel only).

1870 – A U.S. patent for an improved process to produce celluloid was awarded to John Wesley Hyatt, Jr., the man considered to be the “father of the U.S. Plastics industry,” and his brother, Isaiah S. Hyatt of Albany, N.Y. In the early 1860’s he sought a substitute material for ivory billiard balls.

1906 – The first long-distance wireless telegraphy message across water in the southern hemisphere was transmitted 300-km across Bass Strait from Devonport, Tasmania to Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, to demonstrate Marconi’s equipment. The town celebrated. Businesses closed for the afternoon. A band played for the crowd of 2000 people at the event.

1922 – The new issue of the blue 10-cent U.S. Special Delivery stamp had for the first time the image of a motor cycle, replacing the 9 Dec 1902 version with

a bicycle. It demonstrated a growing post-World War I interest in developing technology.

1928 – 1st televised tennis match.

1949 – Ban on RSS lifted on the assurance that it abjures violence.

1957 – Dwight Eisenhower became the 1st US President to fly in helicopter.

1970 – Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.

1999 – India sets a deadline for intruders withdrawal from Kargil, announces suspension of air strikes.

2013 – Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai addresses the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education.

2017 – World’s largest iceberg (later christened A68) breaks away from Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, about 6,000 sq km in length.

Born….

1909 – Bimal Roy, celebrated Bengali and Hindi film producer and director.

1954 – Sulakshna Pandit, singer.

1983 – Munaf Patel, cricketer.

1997 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist.

RIP….

1489 – Bahlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan and founder of Lodi dynasty.

1999 – Rajendra Kumar, Bollywood actor, popularly known as Jubilee Kumar, as many of his films ran Silver and Gold Jubilees on Cinema screens .

Titbits….

1987 – As more and more areas of land are sold for development of new out-of-town shopping Malls in New York, the land prices that a decade earlier were a mere $2,000 per acre, commanded up to $100,000 per acre.

2018 – World’s longest fingernails cut off; Shridhar Chillal’s nails measured 909.6cm after growing for 66 years (pic credit-TOI)

You may have known….

Fear of garlic is called ‘Alliumphobia’.

 

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