Ideas are not responsible for what men do with them.
On this day, 04 Jul....
1776 - US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain.( 1st Independence Day celebration was held in 1796).
1789 - British East India Company signed a treaty with the Nizam of Hydrabad and Peshwa of Pune against Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, on the understanding that a cavalry of 10,000 would attack Tipu's territory and the conquered area would be divided amongst the three.
1802 - US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY).
1828 - The first U.S. hotel to instal bathrooms was the Tremont House, Boston, for which the cornerstone was laid today.
1874 - The first steel-arch bridge in the U.S. was opened. The Mississippi River Bridge, known as the Eads Bridge after James Buchanan Eads the American engineer who designed it, is a two-tier triple-arch steel bridge. It was the first major bridge to use steel and cantilevered construction. (At the end of the 20th century it was closed for restoration, and reopened in 2003).
1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris.
1894 - Elwood Haynes successfully tested his one-horsepower, one-cylinder vehicle at 6 or 7 mph at Kokomo, Indiana. He was an American pioneer whose vehicle was one of the first automobiles built. Now on exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Hayne's vehicle is the oldest American-made automobile in existence.
1920 - Scientists at Dupont's Redpath laboratory conducting an experiment, researching for a nitrocellulose pencil lacquer, by accident discovered a substance capable of retaining an unusually intense amount of pigment. Spurred by the interest of Charles Kettering, and with the assistance of his engineers at General Motors, this led to the development of a new, quick drying, colourful automotive lacquer, named Duco, which revolutionised car finishing. It was first used on a new GM car, the 1924 model of the “True Blue” Oakland. Thus ended the reign of black as the only practical, durable colour available for cars, iconic on the model-T Fords. Within two more years, all General Motors cars were offered in a choice of colours.
1999 - Over 500 children of Kargil migrants take out a procession to Batalik in a show of solidarity with the Indian Army.
2002 - An elephant's two tusks were fitted with stainless steel dental caps 19-in long by 5-in diameter, the world's record largest dental cap, in a 3½-hr operation, on Spike, a 20-year-old Asian elephant at the Calgary Zoo, Alberta, Canada. After about one-third of its left tusk broke off, a crack in the remaining tusk needed protection against further damage to avoid a future medical problem of infection and pain that could require a complicated root canal treatment.
2016 - Planet Earth reaches its most distant point from the sun for 2016 today, Jul 4.
Born....
1790 - Welsh military engineer and geodesist who worked on the trigonometrical survey of India providing the accurate mapping of the subcontinent. (Mount Everest, formerly called Peak XV, was renamed in his honour in 1865).
1900 - Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader.
RIP....
1902 - Swami Vivekananda, (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta), Indian Hindu spiritual leader and a key figure in the introduction of Yoga to the Western world. (Dies while meditating, at 39).
You may have known....
India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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