Today’s Motto: ‘In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand with the rock’

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

On this day,  July 05………

1658 – Aurangzeb arrested his younger brother Murad.

1687 – Isaac Newton’s great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.

1841 – Thomas Cook arranged a special train between Leicester and Loughborough in England for a temperance meeting. It is believed to be the first publicly advertised excursion train in England. From this initiative grew the worldwide travel agency Thomas Cook and Son.

1865 – A lower speed limit – of 2 mph in town and 4 mph in the country – was imposed in Britain under the Locomotives and Highways Act. The “Red Flag” Act also required three drivers for each vehicle – two on the vehicle and one to walk ahead carrying a red flag. It was repealed in 1896, after nearly two decades of strong support from horse interests.

1905 – Lord Curzon joined the part of Bengal to Assam and divided Bengal.

1946 – Louis Reard’s two-piece swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show.

1947 – Indian Act, 1947 was presented in British Parliament, which was then accepted by the emperor on 18th July. It partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan.

1952 – Thousands of onlookers watched the run of London’s last tram.

1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.

1962 – Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule.

1968 – Naval Submarine wing in Indian Naval Force came into existence with the arrival of the first submarine from the Soviet Union.

1977 – Pakistan’s army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power.

1981 – Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory.

1984 – Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore.

1996 – Dolly, a cloned sheep, was born at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned).

2000 – The Prime Minister rules out restoring pre-1953 status to Jammu and Kashmir.

2000 – Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha’s long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore.

2017 – Followers of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh Mahara win a court case, 3 years after his death, to keep

his body in a freezer in case he should return to life.

2021 – One of world’s oldest pieces of art, 51,000-year-old deer bone carved by Neanderthals, announced discovered in Harz Mountains, Germany.

2022 – In possibly largest-ever Chinese security breach, hacker offers to sell Shanghai police a database with information on one billion Chinese.

2023 – Meta launches Threads – Instagram’s new public conversations app – a day later it becomes the most rapidly downloaded app ever with 30 million downloads.

Born….

1882 – Hazrat Inayat Khan, classical singer and Muslim mystic. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music.

1946 – Ram Vilas Paswan, popular Bihar politician. Was Central cabinet  minister for several years and founded Lok Janshakti Party. His son is union minister now.

1980 – Zayed Khan, Bollywood actor.

You may have known….

Birds don’t urinate.

 

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