Today’s Motto: ‘The one who falls and gets up is much stronger than the one who never fell’
As Every Day makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in History Book!
This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!
On this day, 08 Jul….
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage – becomes first European t
o reach India by sea.
1856 – Charles E. Barnes patents a crank operated machine gun.
1862 – Theodore R. Timby patented the revolving gun turret.
1881 – Drug store keeper Edward Berner nade the first ‘Sundae’ ice cream. The name became “sundae”, after the day on which Berner served it.
1954 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world’s longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal. It was the largest hydropower project in Asia.
1996 – U.N. says India is leading in HIV infections.
1997 – 33 persons killed and 67 injured as blast rips through part of Ambala-bound train at Lehra Khana station in Bhatinda district, Punjab.
2022 – Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated.
Born…. 1914 – Jyoti Basu, prominent Bengal Communist Party politician later broke away into CPI (Marxist), who ruled over the state for over 23 years (1977-2000) and earlier Dy. CM for a term. He had a chance to be 
the Prime Minister of India in 1996 when no political party had clear majority in the Lok Sabha, but his party chief HK Surjeet advised otherwise and lost an opportunity (for Communist rule in India). HD Devegowda of Janata Dal became the PM instead for about one year. Basu was honoured in Soviet Union and Mother Teressa award, Doctorate by Calcutta University and others.
1958 – Neetu Singh, veteran romantic actor. Known for films Sooraj, Do Kaliyan, Das Lakh, Rickshawala, Yadon Ki Baraat, Deevar, Kabhi Kabhi etc. She married Rishi Kapoor a successful h
ero of those days, the yougest son of Raj Kapoor. She won Filmfare, Screen, Star Dus and Zee Cine award one each.
1966 – Revathi (Asha Keluni), popular Tamil, Malyalam and Hindi film actor/director. She acted in over 100 films like Mauna Ragam. Azhagu, Salaam Venky, Kllukam, Punnag
al Mannan etc. She won 3 National and 6 Filmfare awards.
1972 – Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, aggressive Indian left hand batsman, also called Maharaja of Indian Cricket. One of the most successful Captains and former BCCI President in 2019. He won the ICC Champions Trophy in 1999 (scoring 183 individual runs, a record) and reached finals in 2000 and 2004. He scored centuries in 1st two Tests 1996. He scored 11,363 ODI runs and 7212 Test runs with 16 centuries and 35 Half-centuries (239 as his top Test score). Ganguly also took 32 wickets with 3/28 as his best with ball. He became Player of the match i ODIs 4 times continuously in 1997 which is a record. He appeared in Wisden Almanac of Cricket in 2002. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2004. Due to differences with new coach Greg Chappell in 2006 and having been dropped, he quit all formats in 2008.
RIP: –-1990 – Pu Laldenga. Founder of Mizo National Party and became first Chief Minister of Mizor
am on February 20, 1987. It has a history of about 2000-3000 years when ethnic tribal chieftains controlled the area. Aizawl is the state capital and it has over 722 km border areas with Bangladesh and Myanmar.
You may have known…. India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously. It was name Param 8000 and completed by Vijay Bhatkar (Father of Indian Spercomputers), under program C-DAC. At present the AIRAWAT supercomputer is the fastest supercomputer in India, having been ranked 136th fastest in the world and among the TOP500 supercomputers.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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