Today’s Motto: ‘The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense’

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

On this day,  July 26……..

1910 – Unrest flares up in the Deccan region of India. Demand grows for self-determination.

1943 – Los Angeles, California, suffered a smog so bad that visibility downtown was limited to three blocks. The causes were many: locomotive smoke, diesel truck fumes, back-yard rubbish burning plus the mountain topography, stagnant winds and atmospheric temperature inversions. On 14 Oct 1947, the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District, the first in the nation, was created. (London, England, experienced a killer Great Smog on 5 Dec 1952).

1956 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, the joint British-French enterprise which had owned and operated the Suez Canal since its construction in 1869 (pic credit-Jacobin).

1974 – Aspartame artificial sweetener was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (Years earlier, in Dec 1965, while working on an ulcer drug, James M. Schlatter had made the discovery that a mixture of two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalamine, had a sweet taste. By weight it was about 200 times sweeter than sugar, with very few calories. G.D. Seale marketed it as NutraSweet, a low-calorie artificial sweetener without the bitter aftertaste of saccharin).

Kargil Vijay Diwas, observed annually on July 26, commemorates the success of Operation Vijay in 1999. In the battle, Indian forces successfully reclaimed strategic positions in the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir that Pakistani soldiers and terrorists had infiltrated.

2000 – The Centre imposes a ban on employing children below 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.

2015 – Nike and distributor Apple settle a consumer lawsuit over false advertising for the Nike FuelBand; Nike claimed that the band could accurately track a user’s health, but the device was not capable of performing the advertised functions.

2018 – Facebook has the single worst day of any public company on the stock market – losing 19% or $119 billion market value.

2023 – World’s largest office building – Surat Diamond Bourse at 660,000-square-metres (bigger than the Pentagon) is unveiled in Surat India, by architectural studio Morphogenesis (pic credit-Business Today).

Born….

1922 – Girilal Jain, famous journalist and editor. Served Times of India as Editor from 1978 to 1988. Known for writing books on Hinduism and Panchsheela etc.

1972 – Jugal Hansraj, Bollywood author, actor and film producer. Acted in Masoom, Mohabbtein, Aa Gale Jaa, Papa Kehte Hai, Roadside Romeo, Chh

ote Miyan Bade Miyan, Karma, Sultanat  etc. Won a National Award for Animated film. (pic credit-Wikipedia)

1991 – Aishwaryra Lekshmi, South actress,  won a Filmfare award for Malyalalm,  Tamil, Tegulgu films on July 26, 2014.

RIP:  1926 – Robert Tedd Lincoln. Son of first US  president Abraham Lincoln. Politician, author and businessman.

You may have known….

Taj Mahal: The Taj Mahal in Agra is an immense mausoleum of white marble, built between 1632 and 1653 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife. Called “a teardrop on the cheek of eternity” it is one of the masterpieces of Mughal architecture, and one of the great tourist attractions in India. Besides the white domed marble mausoleum, the Taj Mahal includes several other beautiful buildings, reflecting pools, and extensive ornamental gardens with flowering trees and bushes.

 

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