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Cable News Network (CNN) was launched on 1 June 1980 . It was  founded by T ed Turner and 25 other original members,who invested $20 mi...

World No Tobacco Day  (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on May 31 . It is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence ...

Charles Greeley Abbot was born on  May 31, 1872 an he was   an American astrophysicist.  As an astrophysicist, he researched the solar co...

Indian Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand   beat his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in a tense rapid chess tiebreaker to win his fifth Worl...

  New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, at 11:3...

Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer, best known for his James Bond series of spy nove...

  Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister and he was born on 14 November 1889.  He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian I...

Sally Kristen Ride was born on  May 26, 1951 , she was an American physicist and astronaut. Ride joined NASA in 1978 and at the age of 32...

  Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. He was born on May 26, 1949. ...

The Dragon C2+  Spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station on 24 May ...

On March 24, 2002 Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty

South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States. It  was the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, the 8th state...

  John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.He born o...

Herbert Charles Brown was born on May 22, 1912 . He was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes .H...

  Willem Einthoven was born on May 21, 1860 , he was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogra...

  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 ...