Today’s Motto: ‘A good leader speaks through his actions, not through his words’.

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

On this day, July 03………

1661 – Portugal gives Tangier & Bombay to English King Charles II.

1760 – Maratha army, under Sadashiv Rao Bhau and Vishvas Rao, captured Delhi (image credit-WikiBio).

1806 – Michael Keens, a market gardener of Isleworth near London, exhibited the first cultivated strawberry that combined size, flavour, and colour at the Royal Horticultural Society. The 600 strawberry varieties found today stem from five or six original wild species, and are a member of the rose family.

1819 – 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors.

1886 – The first U.S. newspaper page set by Linotype was the New York Daily Tribune for this day’s editorial page. Ottmar Mergenthaler had produced the world’s first linecasting machine; the time-consuming process of setting type by hand was eliminated. The machine was originally called “Blower” and later renamed “Linotype” (short for “Line of type”).

1886 – Karl Benz drove the first automobile in the world in Mannheim, Germany, reaching a top speed of 10 mph.

The motor-wagen was a carriage-like three-wheeler with tubular framework, with tiller steering and a buggy-like seat for two. Though the vehicle was awkward and frail, it incorporated some essential elements that would characterize the modern vehicle (pic credit – Science Photo Library)

1908 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested for sedition by the British. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak and popularly known as Lokmanya Tilak, was a popular Indian nationalist and Independence activist who was one of the first popular leaders of the freedom movement.

1928 – 1st colour TV broadcast in London.

1929 – Foam rubber was developed at the Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories in Birmingham. British scientist

(Karl Benz 1844-1929)

E.A. Murphy whipped up the first batch in 1929, using an ordinary kitchen mixer to froth natural latex rubber. His colleagues were unimpressed – until they sat on it. Within five years it was everywhere, on motorcycle seats, on London bus seats, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre seats, and eventually in mattresses.
1952 – The first surgical operation in the U.S. to expose the heart’s mitral valve for a prolonged time was undertaken by Dr Forest Dewey Dodrill. The patient, a 41-year-old man, was provided with The Michigan Heart as a substitute for the lower left ventricle.

1961 – Three men were killed in the first fatal nuclear accident in the U.S. when an experimental reactor exploded. Four days were spent to devise a safe method to recover one of the corpses. All three bodies were extremely radioactive, causing problems for their

burial. Clean-up took 18 months. Investigators were never able to determine why this “abnormal act” occurred. (Two decades later, a documentary speculated one of the men had marital problems and sabotaged the reactor).                                                                                           987 – British millionaire Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first to cross the Atlantic by hot-air balloon, named Virgin Atlantic Flyer.

2013 – President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is deposed by the military in a coup d’état with Adly Mansour appointed interim president.

2019 – US produces the most waste per head globally and recycles the least at 35% according to new research by Verisk Maplecroft, Germany recycles the most at 68%.

Born….
1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor.

1980 – Harbhajan Singh, Ace Indian spinner, batter and now a politician (image credit- MyKhel).

Titbits….

1936 – Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge University v MCC.

1989 – The movie “Batman” set record of quickest $100 million (10 days).
You may have known….
Russian scientists in Yakutok are studying an 18,000-year old puppy so well preserved that its hair, teeth, eyelashes and whiskers remain intact.

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