Today’s Motto: ‘New beginnings often come in the guise of painful endings’

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

On this day,  July 19……….

1296 – Allau’d-din Khalji declared himself as King of Delhi after assassinating Jalal’ud-din Khalji.

1843 – The S.S. Great Britain, the world’s first all-metal liner, was launched from Bristol, England.

1939 – Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.

1949 – Raja of Tehri Garhwal announces merger with Indian Union.

1961 – 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA.

1969 – Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.

1974 – Udham Singh’s, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London.

1987 – Rajiv Gandhi,Congress President, expels V.P. Singh from Congress and orders probe into Ajitabh Bachhan’s property abroad. (pic credit-Wikipedia)

1994 – The Tamil Nadu Bill for continuance of the 69% reservation policy in the state receives the President’s assent.

2000 – The Centre has no locus standi in Thackeray case, says the Prime Minister and rejects the resignations of Shiv Sena nominees in the Union Cabinet– Manohar Joshi, Suresh Prabhu and  Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil.
2017 – Archaeological dig in Kakadu National Park extends Aboriginal peoples time in Australia to 65,000 to 80,000 years ago.

2018 – Israel’s parliament passes controversial “nation state” law giving only Jews self-determination, relegating Arabic to “special status”.

Born….

1955 – Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties. Current President of BCCI. (pic credit-Wikipedia)

1961 – Harsha Bhogle, journalist and popular cricket commentator.

1983 – Sindhu Tolani. Commercial model. Telugu, Tamil,  Kannada and Hindi actress. Films Kick, Reservation Starts Today,  Chitrangda, Bhaigiri have popular ity among South and North fans.

1999- Prerna Keshwani. Indore born Hindi actress. Mostly done  Madhya Pradesh films and web series.

RIP :  1850 – Margaret Fuller. First woman War correspondent. Wrote a famous book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century and others.

1947-Aung San. PopularBurmese revoltionary leader, who became PM for a while. Known as Bagyoke, he is the father of popular opposition woman leader and Noble Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in prison for many years.(pic credit-GettyImages)

1993 – Girilal Jain, journalist. Former Times of India Editor (we have given his account in our column yesterday-by mistake).

You may have known….

The Virupaksha Temple in the city of Hampi started out as a small shrine and grew into a large complex under the Vijayanagara rulers. It is believed that this temple has been functioning uninterruptedly ever since the small shrine was built in th

e 7th century AD which makes it one of the oldest functioning Hindu temples in India.

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