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01/08/2022

BRITISH SCIENTIST DISCOVERED OXYGEN!

On this day, August 1, in 1774, British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen by removing it from air.

This experiment was groundbreaking for understanding what oxygen is and how it works. Priestley isolated oxygen in its gaseous state not only to discover the element oxygen but to understand what it does.

Priestley was not the first to experiment with oxygen, as Carl Wilhelm had similar findings the year before. However, his discovery was not published until 1777, making Priestley officially the first person to discover oxygen.
This discovery has helped millions of people today.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Discoveries are a blessing to mankind.

29/07/2022

NEW PLANET DISCOVERED!

On this day, July 29th, in 2005 Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

Eris is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System.

It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disk and has a high-eccentricity orbit. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team led by Mike Brown and verified later that year. In September 2006, it was named after the Greco–Roman goddess of strife and discord.

Eris is the ninth-most massive known object orbiting the Sun and the sixteenth-most massive overall in the Solar System (counting moons).

It is also the largest object that has not been visited by a spacecraft. Eris has been measured at 2,326 ± 12 kilometers (1,445 ± 7 mi) in diameter; its mass is 0.28% that of the Earth and 27% greater than that of Pluto, although Pluto is slightly larger by volume.

MORALS:
Keep searching , keep learning. There’s always something new out there !

29/07/2022

THE MOST FAMOUS WEDDING IN HISTORY!

On this day, July 29th, in 1981, the historic wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place at St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom.

The groom was the heir apparent to the British and Commonwealth thrones, and the bride was a member of the Spencer family.

Their marriage was widely billed as a "fairytale wedding" and the "wedding of the century". It was watched by an estimated global television audience of 750 million people.

Events were held around the Commonwealth to mark the wedding. Many street parties were held throughout the United Kingdom to celebrate the occasion.

The ceremony was a traditional Church of England wedding service. Alan Webster, Dean of St Paul's, presided at the service, and Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, conducted the marriage.

Notable figures in attendance included many members of other royal families, republican heads of state, and members of the bride's and groom's families.

After the ceremony, the couple made the traditional appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Wealth makes love beautiful. 😍

28/07/2022

WOMAN BREAKS A WORLD RECORD !

On this day, 28th July, in 2018, Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

Tuck was born in Australia in 1965. Having begun sailing at the age of 24, she has competed in 13 Sydney Hobart Yacht races and was the first woman skipper to finish in 2017, earning the Jane Tate Memorial Trophy.

She won her division in 2015 as Skipper of the Clipper Boat Danang Vietnam.

Interviewed after the race, she said, “If one little girl sees this, sees it can be done and has a go, that will be what matters to me.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Keep doing what you know how to do best and put lots of efforts while at it, you don’t know who you may be inspiring !

28/07/2022

A MAN ONCE ALLERGIC TO CHLORINE AS A CHILD BECOMES FIRST SWIMMER TO BREAK RECORD!

On this day, July 28, in 2001, Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.

As a young child, Thorpe was sidelined by an allergy to chlorine. As a result, he did not swim in his first race until a school carnival at the age of seven. The allergy forced Thorpe to swim with his head out of the water; despite this ungainly technique, he won the race, primarily because of his significant size advantage.

Thorpe gradually overcame the ailment and progressed to the captaincy of New South Wales for the Australian Primary Schools Championships in 1994. He subsequently won nine individual gold medals at the New South Wales Short Course Age Championships in September of the same year.

At the age of 14, Thorpe became the youngest male ever to represent Australia, and his victory in the 400 metre freestyle at the 1998 Perth World Championships made him the youngest-ever individual male World Champion.

After that victory, Thorpe dominated the 400 m freestyle, winning the event at every Olympic, World, Commonwealth and Pan Pacific Swimming Championships until his break after the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. Aside from 13 individual long-course world records, Thorpe anchored the Australian relay teams, numbering the victories in the 4 × 100 m and the 4 × 200 m freestyle relays in Sydney among his five relay world records.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Never give up no matter the circumstance.

27/07/2022

THE FIRST OLYMPIC IN LONDON TOOK PLACE TODAY!

On this day, July 27th in 2012, London Olympics Officially Opened.

The 2012 London Olympics were officially opened during the opening ceremony by Queen Elizabeth II.

The opening ceremony featured many musical and theatrical performances meant to represent British culture and the Olympic spirit.

In the end, possible future athletes were given the honor of lighting the ceremonial flame.

26/07/2022

THE AMERICANS DISABILITIES ACT BECAME IMPLEMENTED!

On this day, July 26 in 1990, The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA was implemented.

This is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[1] which made discrimination based on race, religion, s*x, national origin, and other characteristics illegal, and later s*xual orientation and gender identity.

MORAL OF THE STORY

Everyone deserves to be treated equally!

26/07/2022

A COUNTRY GETS ELECTRICITY AFTER 15 YEARS!

On this day, 26th July, in 2006, Power Restores in Monrovia After 15 Years.

The Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf today flicked a switch to restore electricity to the country’s war torn capital, Monrovia, after a gap of over 15 years.

At a ceremony to coincide with the 159th anniversary of the country’s independence, Mrs. Sirleaf-Johnson, who was elected at the end of 2005, pulled a switch draped in the Liberian flag illuminating a suburban clinic in the city.

"The switching on today is symbolic. It symbolises our journey from darkness to illumination," President Johnson-Sirleaf said in a speech.

She was joined by the Ghanaian President John Kuffour who said “…with the restoration of power to Liberia the period of gloom and darkness engendered by political turmoil must come to an end." Ghana provided equipment and manpower to assemble Monrovia’s electricity infrastructure after it was largely looted by soldiers during the decade of turmoil in the country.

Pumped water was also restored to the capital at a ceremony on Tuesday, which the World Health Organisation has declared high quality. These two major milestones demonstrate visible progress to the Liberian people that the country is making progress, and will add optimism during the anniversary celebrations.

"My last daughter does not even know what a street light is. When she saw it she did not want to leave," one 45 year old Monrovian told Reuters.

After becoming Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf promised to restore power and water to the capital within 150 days, a target she reached it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Sometimes, it takes only one person to change the destiny of a nation.

26/07/2022

HILLARY CLINTON MAKES REMARKABLE HISTORY AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

On this day, July 26, in 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to top a majority party ticket for President of the United States.

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of President Bill Clinton.

A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party; Clinton won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote, thereby losing the election to Donald Trump.

She has often told the story of being inspired by U.S. efforts during the Space Race and sending a letter to NASA around 1961 asking what she could do to become an astronaut, only to be informed that women.

She attended Maine East High School, where she participated in the student council and school newspaper and was selected for the National Honor Society. She was elected class vice president for her junior year but then lost the election for class president for her senior year against two boys, one of whom told her that "you are really stupid if you think a girl can be elected president".

Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

She never gave up despite the challenges she faced due to her gender.

Never give up. 👌🏽

25/07/2022

WORLD’S FIRST IVF BABY TURNS 41 TODAY!

On this day July 25 in 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents Lesley and Peter Brown.

The healthy baby was delivered shortly before midnight by caesarean section and weighed in at five pounds, 12 ounces.

Before giving birth to Louise, Lesley Brown had suffered years of infertility due to blocked fallopian tubes. In November 1977, she underwent the then-experimental IVF procedure. A mature egg was removed from one of her ovaries and combined in a laboratory dish with her husband’s s***m to form an embryo. The embryo then was implanted into her uterus a few days later.

Her IVF doctors, British gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and scientist Robert Edwards, had begun their pioneering collaboration a decade earlier. Once the media learned of the pregnancy, the Browns faced intense public scrutiny.

Louise’s birth made headlines around the world and raised various legal and ethical questions.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Determination is key ! The couples kept seeking means to having a child despite the fact that the woman had a blocked Fallopian tube

25/07/2022

INDIA GETS FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IN HISTORY

On this historic day, July 25th 2007, India gets its first female president. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, the politician, stayed in office as the head of state of the South Asian country for 5 years.

Pratibha Devisingh Was born 19 December 1934. She is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th president of India from 25 July 2007 to 25 July 2012.

She is a member of the Indian National Congress. She had previously served as the Governor of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007.

Pratibha Devisingh Patil is the daughter of Narayan Rao Patil. She was born in the village of Nadgaon, in the British Raj Indian district of Jalgaon of Maharashtra, India.

She was educated initially at R. R. Vidyalaya, Jalgaon, and subsequently was awarded a master's degree in Political Science and Economics by Mooljee Jetha College, Jalgaon (then under Poona University), and then a Bachelor of Law degree by Government Law College, Bombay, affiliated to the University of Bombay (now University of Mumbai).

Patil then began to practice law at the Jalgaon District Court, while also taking interest in social issues such as improving the conditions faced by Indian women.

Patil married Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat on 7 July 1965. The couple has a daughter, Jyoti Rathore and a son, Raosaheb Shekhawat, who is also a politician.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Anything is possible when you put your mind to it , irrespective of your gender.

25/07/2022

MAN SPENDS FOUR DAYS INSIDE WATER TO BEAT RECORD !

Exactly 82 years ago today, on the 25th July 1940, America's John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours, 46 minutes from St. Louis to Caruthersville, Missouri in the Mississippi River; 292 miles.

This makes it the longest solo swim of all time in history !

The Swimmer was 30 year old as at that time and he reached his objective to breaking the record.

Minutes after entering the river at Louis at 7:22 o'clock Wednesday; night completing his task, he was unable to walk or talk, he was helped from the water to a boat house where he rested a short time until a stretcher was Improvised to carry him to a hotel.

Dr. Philip Aquino the doctor who examined him said he complained of a pain in his right side and was so exhausted

Physical examination were performed and his organs where still functioning properly.

Sigmund was married and fathered two children.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

1. No goal can be achieved without determination.

24/07/2022

THE RISING OF A STAR: THE STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL WHO BECAME A CELEBRITY DANCER, MUSICIAN, ACTRESS AND ONE OF THE RICHEST!

On this day, 24th July in 1969 American actress Jennifer Lynn Lopez, l AKA Jlo was born.

She started acting in the late 1980s and became one of the highest-paid Latina actresses in the history of Hollywood.

She later found crossover success in the music industry with a series of pop albums.

Lopez, who was born into a family of Puerto Rican descent, took dance lessons throughout her childhood and from an early age had aspirations of fame. She performed internationally in stage musicals, and at age 16 she made her film debut with a small role in My Little Girl (1986).

Her television break came in 1990 when she was cast as one of the “Fly Girls,” dancers who appeared on the comedy show In Living Color.

After she left the show, she turned her focus to acting first in several short-lived television series and then in movie roles.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

1. Everything you've got inside you can be used for something!

2. It is possible to achieving everything out of nothing.

24/07/2022

A THIRTEEN MONTH OLD BABY IS MADE KING OF TWO POWERFUL NATIONS - ENGLAND & IRELAND

Exactly this day, July 24, 455 years ago, a thirteen month old child became the king of England and Ireland.

James VI became the King of England and Ireland exactly at age 1 when his mother was abdicated.

James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, and thus a potential successor to all three thrones.

Four different regents helped him to rule since he was too young and this ended officially in 1578. He did not gain full control of his government until 1583.

In 1603, he succeeded the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, who died childless. He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known as the Jacobean era, until his death.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

1. No matter how powerful we are, we need help to get through some situations in life. James was a king at age one but needed to be helped.

2. Life can give you responsibilities/opportunities at any point in your life. Irrespective of your age, religion, and class, always be ready.

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23/07/2022

A MAN DOES WHAT IS SAID TO BE HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE

On this exact day, July 23, in 1993, a cyclist made headlines around the world.

He became the first human being to cross 52 kilometers in 1 hour on a bike.

Chris Boardman broke the Hour World Record by cycling 52.270km in 60 minutes at the Velodrome du Lac in Bordeaux, France.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Everything is impossible until someone does it. 👌🏽

23/07/2022

A LITTLE IDEA THAT SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD LIKE WILDFIRE

On this day, July 23, in 1904, a gentleman named Charles E. Menches who was serving at a party decided to try something new.

He filled a pastry cone with two scoops of ice cream and that's how The First Ice Cream Cone was created!

It must be said, however, that he is one of several claimants to that honor: Ernest Hamwi, Abe Doumar, Albert and Nick Kabbaz, Arnold Fornachou, and David Avayou all have been touted as the inventor(s) of the first edible cone.

Interestingly, these individuals have in common the fact that they all made or sold confections at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, known as the St. Louis World’s Fair.

It is from the time of the Fair that the edible “cornucopia,” a cone made from a rolled waffle, vaulted into popularity in the United States.

23/07/2022

A BUSINESS TOOK ONE DECISION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Exactly 119 years ago, on 23rd July 1903, The Ford Motor Company sold its first car.

Henry Ford was 39 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the world's largest and most profitable companies.

It has been in continuous family control since its inception and is one of the largest family-controlled companies in the world.

The company went public in 1956 but the Ford family, through special Class B shares, still retain 40 percent of the voting rights.

Ford was named the second-largest U.S.-based automaker (behind General Motors) and the fifth-largest in the world (behind Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai and General Motors) based on 2015 vehicle production.

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22/07/2022

Exactly 42 years ago today (July 22), entrepreneur and founder of Australian Geographic Dick Smith completed his first solo around-the-world helicopter flight.

The sojourn was also the first solo flight from the US to Australia by helicopter and the first solo helicopter flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

For the ambitious journey, Dick flew his helicopter – in which he usually took his family ‘helicamping’ around Australia. The trip across the globe turned out to be much more than a leisurely activity, though, as he battled exhaustion, freezing temperatures, torrential rain, turbulence, extreme heat, dust and tropical storms.

He was even mysteriously shot at when he was over Alaska, with bullets hitting the helicopter’s reserve fuel tank.

Dick believed that a helicopter was a better way to record his flight through the various stages of his trip and he later turned his remarkable journey into a documentary.

22/07/2022

On this day, July 22nd in 1793, Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America!

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (or MacKenzie, Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacCoinnich; born 1764 – and died 12 March 1820) was a Scottish explorer known for accomplishing the first crossing of America north of Mexico in 1793, which preceded the Lewis and Clark Expedition by 12 years.

The Mackenzie River is named after him!

22/07/2022

On this day, July 22 in 2016, American hurdler Kendra Harrison set a NEW WORLD RECORD in the women's 100 meters hurdles with a time of 12.20 seconds in the London Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium.

Kendra Harrison set the world record in the women's 100 metres hurdles with a time of 12.20 seconds on July 22, 2016 at the London Müller Anniversary Games, breaking the world record of 12.21 seconds set 28 years earlier by Bulgarian athlete Yordanka Donkova.

Kendra Harrison was born in Tennessee on September 18, 1992, and adopted by Gary and Karon Harrison; she grew up in a large family with ten other children, eight of them also adopted.

[Harrison's first sport was soccer; she took up track and field at Clayton High School in Clayton, North Carolina. She soon became a leading scholastic hurdler, winning state championship titles at the 2010 and 2011 North Carolina Class 4A state meets; in 2011 she also won the 100 m hurdles at the New Balance Nationals and was named Gatorade North Carolina Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

She is an inspiration to many aspiring athletes!

21/07/2022

On this day (21st July) in 1993, a young man called Jay Silverheels was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The feat was remarkable.

As of today, he remains the only Indigenous person on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

He was named to the Western New York Entertainment Hall of Fame, and his portrait hangs in Buffalo, New York's Shea's Buffalo Theatre.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6538 Hollywood Boulevard.

In 1997, Silverheels was inducted, under the name Harry "Tonto" Smith, into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in the Veteran Player category in recognition of his lacrosse career during the 1930s.

21/07/2022

On this day (21st July) in 1924, a young man made history as the first to gain the world speed record on land and on water.

Major Sir Malcolm Campbell MBE pulled the groundbreaking stunt using vehicles called Blue Bird, including a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam.

Campbell broke the land speed record for the first time at 146.16 mph (235.22 km/h) at Pendine Sands near Carmarthen Bay in a 350HP V12 Sunbeam, now on display at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.

He broke nine land speed records between 1924 and 1935, with three at Pendine Sands and five at Daytona Beach.

His first two records were accomplished whilst driving a racing car built by Sunbeam.

In 1925, Campbell set a new lap record of 100 mph (160.93 km/h) at Brooklands in a streamlined Chrysler Six.

His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records.

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21/07/2022

On this day (21st July) in 2007, an American athlete did what many said could not be done.

Even better, nobody has been able to do it again after him.

Alan Webb broke a record that had not been broken for 25 years in the whole of United States!

The 2004 Olympian and Olympic Trials champion at 1500 meters is the current U.S. record holder in the Mile (3:46.91) that he set on July 21, 2007 in Brasschaat, Belgium, breaking Steve Scott's 25-year-old record.

Alan was also the fourth U.S. high school athlete to break 4 minutes in the Mile and the first prep sub-4 indoors when he clocked 3:59.86 at the New Balance Games in New York City on January 20, 2001, and later in the year, at the Prefontaine Classic on May 27, he made history again, racing to a stellar 3:53.43 and breaking Jim Ryun's 36-year-old national high school Mile record.

Webb, a three-time USA champion at 1500 meters (2004-05 and 2007), retired from competitive racing at the 2014 NYRR Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile on February 15.

In 2018, Alan Webb was fittingly one of 30 athletes inducted into the National High School Track & Field Hall of Fame, inaugural class.

What a man, what a record, what a story!

20/07/2022

On this day July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon.

About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Apollo 17, the final manned moon mission, took place in 1972.

20/07/2022

On this day July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon.

About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Apollo 17, the final manned moon mission, took place in 1972.

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