Today’s Motto: ‘The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend’
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, 28 July….
1858 -Gaspar Felix Tournachon, known as Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon.
1858 – Fingerprints were used as a means of identification for the first time. Finger pr int marks of human fingers are taken as identification or for verification and criminal identifications. The ridges and trough made on finger tips are unique for each person.
1866 – The use of the metric system was authorized by act of US Congress as legally acceptable weights and measures in the United States, though it was not made compulsory. (A century and a half later, the nation has still not converted fully to the metric system).
1900 – Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut in restaurant Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, US.
1914 – World War I began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. (map credit-www.reditt.com)
1932 – Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die. (The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organisers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I’s American Expeditionary Forces, while the media called it the Bonus Army. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former army sergeant).
1972 – India and Pakistan sign Shimla Pect, for peacefully settling border dispute in Kashmir. It was signed after Bangladesh was created out of Pakistan in 1971 and Muzib-ur-Rehman took over as PM of new country. India agreed to release over 90,000 POWs and some territories occupied by Indian forces on Western border.
1992 – Shiv Sena president Bal Thackeray is banned from voting and contesting in any el
ection for six years from December 11, 1995 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.
2016 – Earliest evidence of cancer is found in a 1.7 million-year-old toe fossil from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, published in the South African Journal of Science.
Born…. 1932 – Hiren Bhattacharya, called Hiruda was a famous Assamese and Hindi poet, lyrici
st and writer. Won several literary awards like Sovietland Nehru award, Sahitya Akademy award in 1992, Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad award etc.
1955 – Ramesh C Juneja. is an Indian billionaire businessman, co-founder and Chairman of Mankind Pharma. He is one of the 100 richest Indians as per Forbes; his net worth was 
estimated to be $2.3 billion in 2019. He won the Asia Businessman of the Year award in 2012.
1965 – Ronu Mazumdar. Legendary Flute master. Born in Varanasi, he plays flute in all genres like Jazz, classical, contemporary, orchastra and chamber music. He performed jugalbandi with Pt. Ravi Shakar, Ali Akbar Khan. He was awaded Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2015.
1972 Ayesha Jhulka. Indian actress who acted in Hindi and some Bengali, Kannada, Telugu fil
ms like Khiladi, Masoom, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Kohra, Kaise Kaise Rishte, Muqaddar, Vishwavidhata etc. She got some nominations and film awards.
1986 – Huma Qureshi, model and Bollywood romantic actress who appeared in Badlapur, Dedh Ishquiya, Monica O’My Darling, Gangs of Wassepur, Army of the Dead, Maharani, Highway etc. She got several nominations for Filmfare and won 5 awards, and OTT awards.
RIP…. 1972 – Charu Majumdar, author of the historic accounts of the 1968 Naxalbari uprising. (His writings have become the ideology which guides red ‘revolutionaries’ even today). He was 
also co-founder of Communist Party of India.
Titbits….
1914 – Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden by Harry Fox.
You may have known…. Cur
rently, there are about 51 births every minute in India. This translates to roughly 73,000 births per day. {Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}