Today’s Motto: ‘Acceptance of own weakness is the beginning of growth’

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

On this day,  July 28……..

1858 – Gaspar Felix Tournachon, known as “Nadar” took the first airphoto in 1855. He had patented the idea of using aerial photographs in mapmaking and surveying, but it took him 3 years of experimenting before he successfully produced the very first aerial photograph. It was a view of the French village of Petit-Becetre teaken from a tethered hot-air balloon, 80 meters above the ground. (Nadar’s earliest photographs no longer survive, and the oldest aerial photograph known to be still in existence is James Wallace Black’s image of Boston from a hot-air balloon, taken in 1860). (pic credit-Nadar-History Oasis)

1858 – Fingerprints were used as a means of identification for the first time.

1866 – The use of the metric system was authorised by act of Congress as legally acceptable.

1900 – Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut. (Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, US,

advertises itself as the first restaurant to serve hamburgers and as being the oldest hamburger restaurant still operating in the U.S).

1914 – World War I began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia (pic credit-Topical Press Agency/Getty Images).

1932 – Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops in the US 4 die. (The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organisers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I’s American Expeditionary Forces, while the media called it the Bonus Army. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former army sergeant).

1933 – 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City. (A singing telegram is a message that is delivered by an artist in a musical form. Singing telegrams are historically linked to normal telegrams, but tend to be humorous and often given as a gift).1942 – L.A. Thatcher of Stamford, USA, received by mail a patent for a coin-operated mailbox. . Appropriately, Mr. Thatcher had patented a coin-operated mailbox. When money was inserted, a meter stamped the envelope.

1972 – India and Pakistan sign Simla Pact, settling border dispute in Kashmir.

1992 – Shiv Sena president Bal Thackeray is banned  from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1995 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.

2014 – Israel criticizes John Kerry’s proposed ceasefire, stating that no ceasefire deal will be accepted without the destruction of tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.

2023 – Scientists genetically engineer female animals to reproduce without a male for thefirst time, using fruit flies.

Born….

1983- Dhanush, Tamil actor, singer director, producer. (real name Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja). Acted in films like Raanjhanaa, Antrangi Re, Maari, Asuran, The Grey Man, Captain Miller Raayan, Vaathi etc.

1986 – Huma Qureshi. Bollywood actor, horror and  romantic diva. Acted in Tarla, Dedh Ishqia, Monica My Darling, Army & Dead, Double XL, Bell Bottom etc.  Won Stardust and Screen Awards.

RIP….

1934 –Marie Dressler. Canadian theatre artist, acted in silent films Emma, Dinner at Eight, Anna Christie etc.

1968 -Otto Hahn. German chemist, radio and nuclear chemisitry and Fission. Discovered Radio Isotopes of Radium, Thorium, Protectinium, Uranium etc. Awarded Nobel prize in 1944. (pic credit-Wikipedia)

1972 – Charu Majumdar, author of the historic accounts of the 1968 Naxalbari uprising. (His writings have become the ideology which guides red ‘revolutionaries’ even today).

Titbits….

1914 – Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden by Harry Fox.  (The Foxtrot originated by Vaudeville actor Harry Fox. Born Arthur Carringford in Pomona, California, in 1882, he adopted the stage name of “Fox” after his grandfather).

You may have known….

The Desert Festival: Desert Festival of Jaisalmer is a colourful festival held in February every year. One gets to see Cultural events, camel races, turban tying competitions, contests to judge the man with the best moustache. Everything is exotic in the Desert festival, amidst the golden sands of the Thar Desert. With a final musical performance by folk singers under the moonlit sky at the dunes in Sam, just outside Jaisalmer, the festival comes to its end. The rich culture of the region is on display during this three daylong extravaganza.

 

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