Quotes
Funniest Quotes about ageing
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
– *Mark Twain*
HAPPY AGEING AND GROWING
Day's history
15th July
1903 Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
1916 Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington
16th July
1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading)
1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project
17th July
1936 Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
18th July
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army
19th July
1848 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1996 Pran Nath Chhuttani, Indian physician and teacher, dies at 81
20th July
1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80
21st July
1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM 22nd July
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
2012 Pranab Mukherjee is elected 13th President of India
22nd July
1678 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.
1981 India’s first experimental geostationary communication satellite ‘Apple’ started working which was launched on June 19, 1981
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