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  Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sa...

  John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger was an American football halfback born in Dubuque, Iowa. He was born on March 19, 1914 and hewas...

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) established International Museum Day in 1977 to encourage public awareness of the role of muse...

  Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing gra...

World Information Society Day is celebrated each year on 17 May to remind the world of the vision of the World Summit on the Information ...

Johannes Georg Bednorz was born on May 16, 1950, he is a German physicist who, together with  K. Alex Müller( http://datesupdates.blog...

May 15 is celebrated as the International Day of the Family. This day highlights the importance of families. It aims at fostering equality, ...

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the...

Ronald Ross was a British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. He was born on 1...

The Indian Government led by prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared that  India a full-fledged nuclear state in a press conference on...

Florence Nightingale was born on   12 May 1820 and she was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of mode...

11 May has been officially declared as National Technology Day in India to commemorate the first of the five tests that were carried out o...

Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president on May 10, 1994 .   In April 1994 the Mandela-led ANC won Sou...

On May 9, 1962 , a pulse light laser beam sent by a team of scientists from MIT successfully bounced off the moon, the first lunar lase...

William Francis Kemmler was born on May 9, 1860 and he  was a convicted murderer and the first person in the world to be executed using ...

Jean Henri Dunant ( Henry Dunant ) was born on May 8, 1828 . He was known as the founder of Red Cross.  He was a Swiss businessman and s...

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is observed annually on May 8 .

  Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. He was born on  May 7, 1861 . Author o...

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque on 6th July 2001 during a trip to Syria.

International Midwives' Day was first celebrated May 5, 1991 , and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world. The id...