Thought Of The Day
"AN INVESTMENT IN KNOWLEDGE PAYS THE BEST INTEREST "
Learning never stops and knowledge never ends. So here come some interesting facts of the day to keep your general knowledge up-to-date.
Events that took place on this day in history 23 July
*In 555,
Humayun reconquers Delhi after defeating Sikandar Suri.
*In 1904,
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway starts First Class restaurant cars on its trains.
*In 1927,
Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by the first commercial radio station – the Bombay Radio Station.
The station was then owned by a private company called the Indian Broadcasting Company.
* In 1956,
India celebrate the birth centenary of Lokmanya Tilak.
*In 1999,
Eileen Collins
With the launch of NASA's orbiter Columbia, U.S. astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.
*In 1903,
Ford Motor Company sold its first automobile, a Ford Model A; five years later it introduced the hugely influential Model T.
*In 1829,
Historic Invention
1st U.S. Typographer
1829 William Austin Burt patents America's first "typographer" (typewriter)
*In 1904,
Ice cream cone created during St Louis World Fair - the 1st cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches
*In 1956,
Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
*In 2015,
NASA's Kepler mission announces discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet - Kepler-452b, 1,400 light years from Earth
*In 2012,
Sally Ride
U.S. astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel in space, died at the age of 61.
Famous people that have birthdays on this day in history 23 July:
* In 1944,
Bhaskarrao Bapurao Khatgaonkar Patil, Indian-British Raj political leader who is currently State Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party for state unit of Maharashtra.
*In 1947,
L. Subramaniam, Indian violinist, composer, and conductor, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition and Western classical music.
*In 1966,
Rakeshprasad disputed acharya of the Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi of Swaminarayan Sampraday.
*In 1973,
Meenakshi Natarajan, Indian politician and former Member of Parliament from Mandsaur.
*In 1994,
Karthick Naren, Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who works in Tamil cinema.
*In 1856,
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist.
*In 1895,
Mukul Dey was one of five children of Purnashashi Devi and Kula Chandra Dey.
*In 1898,
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language.
*In 1906,
Chandra Shekhar Azad was an Indian revolutionary who reorganized the Hindustan Republican Association.
Famous people that have death anniversaries on this day in history 23 July
*In 1925,
Subramaniya Siva was an Indian writer and activist during the Indian independence movement.
*In 1957,
P. Varadarajulu Naidu was an Indian physician, politician, journalist, and Indian independence activist.
*In 2004,
Mehmood was an Indian actor, singer, director, and producer best known for playing comic roles in Hindi films.
*In 2012,
Lakshmi Sahgal was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women’s Affairs in the Azad Hind government.