Giani Zail Singh ( born Jarnail Singh, 5 May 1916 – 25 December 1994) was the seventh President of India serving from 25 July 1982 to 25 July 1987. Prior to his presidency, he was a politician with the Indian National Congress party, and had held several ministerial posts in the Union Cabinet, including that of Home Minister. He also served as the Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1983 to 1986.
His presidency was marked by Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.He died of injuries in 1994, after a car accident.
A commemorative postage stamp was issued by India's Department of Posts on the occasion of Singh's first death anniversary in 1995.
Thread The Needle Day is observed on July 25 of each year. Thread The Needle Day is interpreted in many different ways by everyone. Needle the thread has various meanings like, it means to try putting the thread through a sewing needle; metaphorically has a purpose of being in a middle ground between two opposing views. Another meaning is playing billiards in which the movement of the ball is shot precisely through a narrow pathway; it is also commonly used to refer a yoga pose; another meaning is being employed in sports in which a ball is moved through a tight space. This day tells that the person must be a skillful player by threading the needle. To keep the confusion away and to make the motive of the day bright, celebrate the literal meaning of the day, that is guiding a thread through a sewing needle. It’s day for people who sew.
Edward James Corbett CIE VD (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author who hunted a number of man-eating tigers and leopards in India. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were preying on people in the nearby villages of the Kumaon-Garhwal Regions.
He authored Man-Eaters of Kumaon, Jungle Lore, and other books recounting his hunts and experiences, which enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success. He became an avid photographer and spoke out for the need to protect India's wildlife from extermination.
Corbett spoke out for the need to protect India's wildlife from extermination and played a key role in creating a national reserve for the endangered Bengal tiger by using his influence to persuade the provincial government to establish it. The national park was renamed Jim Corbett National Park in his honour in 1957 after his death in 1955.
On this day - 25 July 1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.
The Crossroads tests were the first of many nuclear tests held in the Marshall Islands, and the first to be publicly announced beforehand and observed by an invited audience, including a large press corps. They were conducted by Joint Army/Navy Task Force One, headed by Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy rather than by the Manhattan Project, which had developed nuclear weapons during World War II. A fleet of 95 target ships was assembled in Bikini Lagoon and hit with two detonations of Fat Man plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapons of the kind dropped on Nagasaki, each with a yield of 23 kilotons of TNT
The modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of an atomic bomb test on July 1, 1946. Réard hoped that the burst of excitement it caused would be as explosive as an atomic bomb.
Harchand Singh Longowal (2 January 1932 − 20 August 1985) was the President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980s. He was known affectionately as "Sant Ji". He had signed the Punjab accord, also known as the Rajiv-Longowal Accord along with Rajiv Gandhi on 24 July 1985. The government got its way and accepted only few demands of Akali Dal who in turn agreed to withdraw their agitation. Less than a month after signing the Punjab accord, Longowal was assassinated by the Sikh groups who felt let down by the accord and opposed it.
Less than a month after signing the Punjab accord, Longowal was assassinated by the Sikh militants opposed to the accord.Longowal was shot and killed on 20 August 1985 near the gurdwara in village Sherpur, 90 km from Patiala in Punjab.Assassin Halwinder Singh fired bullets from a point blank range at Longowal. The bullets had pierced his abdomen causing his death.His cremation took place on 21 August.
24 July 1783 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander was born (d. 1830)
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco(24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830), generally known as Simón Bolívar and also colloquially as El Libertador,or the Liberator, was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama to independence from the Spanish Empire.
Tiptur Ramaraju Narasimharaju (24 July 1923 – 11 July 1979) was a very popular Kannada actor specialised in roles that required ample comic timing. He was the comedy stalwart of the Kannada film industry. He acted in more than 250 Kannada films between 1954 and 1979. He was also referred to as Hasya Chakravarti.
Alexandre Dumas born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870),also known as Alexandre Dumas père (French for 'father'), was a French writer of partial Afro-Haitian descent. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century into nearly 200 films.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC),is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the second largest political party in the world after India's Bharatiya Janata Party. The CPC is the sole governing party within mainland China, permitting only eight other, subordinated parties to co-exist, those making up the United Front. It was founded in 1921 on the 23 July, chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. The party grew quickly, and by 1949 it had driven the Kuomintang (KMT)'s Nationalist Government from mainland China to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War, leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. It also controls the country's armed forces, the People's Liberation Army.
Children's Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honor of children, whose date of observance varies by country. In 1925, International Children's Day was first proclaimed in Geneva during the World Conference on Child Welfare. Since 1950, it is celebrated on 1 June in most Communist and post-Communist countries.World Children's Day is celebrated on 20 November to commemorate the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the UN General Assembly on 20 November 1959.
In Indonesia, Children's Day is celebrated on 23 July. It was established as a holiday in 1984.
