Today’s Motto: ‘The speed of the leader is the speed of the group’
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, July 07……………..
1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1550 – Europe introduced the first chocolate.
1668 – Isaac Newton received his M.A. from Trinity College in Cambridge.
1763 – Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal.
1799 – Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers.
1855 – As many as 30,000, people went to Calcutta along with weapons to fight the British army.
1885 – G. Moore Peters of Xenia, Ohio, patented the cartridge-loading machine.
1928 – Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri. Described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.
1948 – Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established in India.
1965 – The first successful surgery to replant a completely amputated thumb was accomplished by Shigeo Komatsu and Susumi Tamai.
1981 – The first solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crossed the English Channel.
1985 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Boris Becker beats South African Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 to become the youngest man (17) to win a Wimbledon singles title (The youngest player to win at Wimbledon, male or female, is Martina Hingis, who achieved the record in 1997. She was 16 years, nine months, and five days old. She also holds the record for youngest junior Wimbledon champion, which she became when she was only 13) . (pic credit-Nordsee-Zeitung and Rick Rycroft for Associated Press)
2017 – Tesla Motors produces its first mass-market car, the Model 3.
2023 – World’s first robot-human press conference takes place in Geneva, Switzerland with reporters asking “will you rebel against humans?”
Born….
1937 – Jagdish Prasad Goenka, industrialist.
1973 – Kailash Kher, popular patriotic music composerb and singer. He sings both folk and Sufi songs, classical and Qawwali genre. (video credit-Sony MusicIndiaVIVO)
1981 – MS Dhoni, most successful and popular wicketkeeper captain of India. He now heads Chennai Super KIngs in IPL. He won 133 matches out of 226 in IPL.
RIP….
1999 – Captain Vikram Batra, Army officer born in a village near Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. (Awarded Param Vir Chakra, the highest gallantry award in war). Also known as the Hero of Kargil War. 
You may have known….
If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}
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