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~ Compiled by Caroline C. D'Souza

This Month in History
01, 1997: Hong Kong reverts back to Chinese rule after 138 years of British rule.
04, 1776: U.S. declares independence from Great Britain.
06, 2006: The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

06, 1892: Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian MP in the British House of Commons.
09, 1877: First lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon begins.
10, 1806: Vellore Mutiny takes place, the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
11, 2006: 209 people killed in a series of train bombings in Mumbai.
13, 1974: India's first ODI v England at Headingley under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar.

14, 1789: French revolutionaries storm the Bastille fortress signalling the start of the French Revolution.
18, 1947: King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill.
25, 1978: Louise Joy Brown, world's first "test tube baby", conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) born in Manchester (UK).
25, 1997: K.R. Narayanan sworn in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit to hold this office.
25, 2007: Pratibha Patil sworn in as India's first woman president
27, 1921: Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolate insulin for the first time at the University of Toronto.
29, 1958: NASA established.

Events in July

1st: International Joke Day

reminds us of the value and difference laughter can make to our lives.

11th: World Population Day

focuses attention on the urgency and importance of population issues.

20th: Moon Day

commemorates the first landing on the moon in 1969.

Anecdotes of the Great
WHILE having lunch with famed photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife after a photo session one day, Neil Armstrong asked the couple about their various travels. "But Mr Armstrong," Mrs Karsh interjected, "you've walked on the moon! We want to hear about your travels." "Yes," Armstrong replied with a frown, "but that's the only place I've ever been."

[Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930) is a former U.S. astronaut noted for his command of the Apollo 11 mission, during which he became the first person in history to walk on the moon (July 20, 1969).]

Factoids

Some historians say that tennis was a courtyard ball game invented by 11th or 12th century French monks while the word 'tennis' was derived from the French word 'Tenez!' meaning 'take this', which the monks would yell as they served the ball.

Rich aristocrats modified their courtyards into indoor courts and developed gloves and then bats to hit the ball made of cork wrapped in string or cloth and later, leather.
The word 'racquet' evolved from the Arabic word for palm of the hand, rahat.
'Deuce' comes from deux le jeu, meaning "to both is the game" (that is, the two players have equal scores), while 'love' may come from French l'oeuf (the egg), a reference to the egg-shaped zero symbol.

Who said that?
"A desk, some pads and a pencil, and a large wastebasket to hold all of my mistakes."

Answer: Albert Einstein when asked what he would require for his study at Princeton University in 1935.

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~ Compiled by Caroline C. D'Souza