{"id":140037,"date":"2023-06-08T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T06:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=140037"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T06:34:55","slug":"in-which-year-mihir-sen-cross-the-english-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/in-which-year-mihir-sen-cross-the-english-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"In which year Mihir Sen Cross the English Channel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Question<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">In which year Mihir Sen Cross the English Channel?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Type<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">multiple_choice<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>1957<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>1958<\/td><td>correct<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>1960<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>1962<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Solution<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">On September 27, 1958, he soared to fame when he achieved the remarkable feat of crossing the English Channel from Dover to Calais [5], accomplishing it in the fourth fastest time ever recorded, completing the challenging swim in 14 hours and 45 minutes. His triumphant return to India marked him as a national hero, and he emerged as one of the prominent youth icons of his generation. In recognition of his extraordinary achievement, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru bestowed upon him the prestigious Padma Shri award in 1959.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question In which year Mihir Sen Cross the English Channel? Type multiple_choice Option 1957 incorrect Option 1958 correct Option 1960 incorrect Option 1962 incorrect Solution On September 27, 1958, he soared to fame when he achieved the remarkable feat of crossing the English Channel from Dover to Calais [5], accomplishing it in the fourth fastest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":140039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5016],"tags":[5126,5017],"class_list":["post-140037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west-bengal-gk","tag-west-bengal-geography","tag-west-bengal-gk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140041,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140037\/revisions\/140041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}