Today’s Motto: ‘Few things are more complex than ordinary life’

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

On this day,  July 22……….

1678 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.

1702 – The “English Company of Merchants” and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies. In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company.

1918 – During the First World War, India’s first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai’s plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for British Force.

1952 – A U.S. patent for a “Self-Propelled Sprinkling Irrigating Apparatus” was issued to Frank L. Zybach of Strasburg, Colorado.

1983 – Dick Smith made the first solo helicopter flight around the world, taking a leisurely 11 months (pic credit-Wikipedia).

1989 – The youngest pilot to fly around the world, 11 year old (4th grade) Tony Aliengena, returned to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, nearly seven weeks and 21,567 miles after taking off in a Cessna 210 Centurion. The around-the-world trip had included good will stops in the Soviet Union. The plane crashed while trying to take off from Alaska while the boy’s father was at the controls, giving his son a rest. There were no serious injuries, and the journey was completed. Early the previous year, while still age 9 years, he was the youngest pilot to cross the continental U.S.

1998 – 24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

1998 – India’s 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka.

2015 – The Brain Kids, a team of robots from Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology, wins 2015 RoboCup, a robotic football (soccer) tournament started 18 years earlier to encourage new developments in the robotics field.

2019 – India’s lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 successfully takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota aiming to be fourth nation to soft-land on the moon.

2022 – Madam Droupadi Murmu is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India.

Born….

1923 – Mukesh, legendary singer who sang over 1300 songs in films like Anaari, Awara, Shri 420, Be-imaan, Sanyasi,, Upkaar,  Poorab Pachim, Rajnigandha,  Kabhie Kabhie etc. Known as the ‘Voice of Raj Kapoor’ in Bollwood. He won many National and Filmfare awards (photo credit-Star of Mysore; video-Saregama Music).

1925 – Homi Jehangir, Teleyarkhan, social worker.

RIP….

1998 – Sahib Singh Verma, Delhi Chief Minister, and BJP vice-president K. L. Sharma are fined Rs. 100 each for riding a motorcycle without helmet in New Delhi.

You may have known….

Harmandir Sahib: The Harmandir Sahib, better known as the Golden Temple is the main tourist attraction in Amritsar, and the most important religious place to the Sikhs. Construction of the temple was begun by Guru Ramdas ji. in the 16th century. It’s a stunning temple, and always full of thousands of pilgrims from all over India, excited to be at a place that they usually only see on television.                                     

                                                                {Compiled n by Lt. Gen. )R) Raj Kadyan}