Thought Of The Day
""The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind."
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 20 July
*In 1905,
The first partition of Bengal was approved in London by the Secretary of State of India.
*In 1944,
An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion only wounded the Nazi leader. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a fourth term of office at the Democratic convention in Chicago.
*In 1968,
Special Olympics
At Chicago's Soldier Field, the first Special Olympics began, and some 1,000 athletes—all of whom had intellectual disabilities—participated.
*In 1928,
The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians
*In 1793,
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie completes the first European east-to-west crossing of America north of Mexico
*In 1976,
On the seventh anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, becomes the first spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of Mars.
*National Moon Day on July 20th commemorates the day man first walked on the moon in 1969. NASA reported the moon landing as being “…the single greatest technological achievement of all time.”
*In 1969,
Apollo 11 carried the first humans to the moon. Six hours after landing on the moon, American Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface. He spent two and a half hours outside the spacecraft. Buzz Aldrin soon followed, stepping onto the lunar surface. After joining Armstrong, the two men collected 47.5 pounds of lunar material. Their specimens would make the journey back to Earth to be analyzed.
In the command module, a third astronaut waited. Pilot, Michael Collins, remained alone in orbit until Armstrong and Aldrin returned.
*Famous people that have birthdays on this day in history 20 July
*In 1950 ,
Naseeruddin Shah is a film & stage actor and director in the Hindi film industry. He has won numerous awards in his career, including 3 National Film Awards, 3 Filmfare Awards and an award at the Venice Film Festival.
*In 1955,
R Banumathi is a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. She is from Tamil Nadu and is the sixth woman to be a Judge of the Indian Supreme Court. She has also served as the Chief Justice of Jharkhand HC and as a Judge at Madras HC.
*In 1976 ,
Debasish Sarbeswar Mohanty is a former Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 45 One Day Internationals between 1997 to 2001.
*In 1988,
Arunima Sinha is an Indian mountain climber and sportswoman. She is a 7 time Indian volleyball player, mountaineer, and the World’s first female amputee to scale Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus, Mount Kosciusko, Mount Aconcagua, Carstensz Pyramid, and Mount Vinson.
*In 1993,
Hardik Patel is an Indian politician and a member of the INC party who participated and led the Patidar reservation agitation.
*In 1911,
Mohammad Baqa Khan Jilani was a bowler who represented India in Test cricket.