Local

2018: The new campus of Bidhanagar East police station is inaugurated by chief minister Mamata Banerjee from Nabanna on July 6. The thana had been moved temporarily to Karunamoyee while this five-storey building with modern amneties was coming up.

National

1877: Ali Nawaz Jung Bahadur is born on July 11. A bright student, Bahadur goes on become the chief engineer during the Nizam rule of Hyderabad, leading the development of many buildings, bridges and irrigation projects. Since 2014, Telangana has been celebrating his birthday as Telangana Engineer’s Day.

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1940: Freedom fighter Udham Singh is hanged on July 31 for the assassination of Michael O’ Dwyer, former lieutenant governor of Punjab in connection with the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. During trial Singh used the name Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, which represented three major religions and his quest for India’s independence.

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1972: Kiran Bedi begins training at the National Academy of Administration on July 16. She later graduates as the first woman officer of the Indian Police Service, serving the country for the next 35 years and taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.

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Global

1566: “You will not find me alive at sunrise,” French doctor and astrologer Nostradamus tells his secretary on the evening of July 1. The next morning the 63-year-old patient of edema, is found dead on the floor next to his bed. Supporters of Nostradamus believe he had predicted the rise of Napoleon, Hitler and the September 11 attacks among other events.

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1912: The 122nd Emperor of Japan, Emperor Meiji, dies on July 30 at the age of 60. Under his 45-year reign, the country transformed from an isolated, feudal one to a world power in terms of politics, industrialisation and social reform.

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2013: A monument of a mouse knitting a double helix of DNA, is completed on July 1 outside the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Cytology and Genetics. The sculpture commemorates the sacrifice of laboratory mice in genetic research, development of medicines and in curing of diseases.

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Sports & entertainment

1923: Uma Devi Khatri is born in Uttar Pradesh on July 11. To escape poverty, she escapes to Bombay seeking a career as a singer but owing to her bubbly personality, gets a break as an actress in the 1950 Dilip Kumar-Nargis starrer Babul. Composer Naushad, her mentor, suggests she use the screen name Tun Tun to match her comic persona. Tun Tun becomes Hindi cinema’s first comedienne.

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1961: Twenty-year-old budding cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi is involved in a car accident in England on July 1 that permanently damages his right eye. Initially Pataudi has double vision but trains to play with one eye, making his debut for India less than six months later. At 21, he becomes India’s youngest Test captain.