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World Oceans Day, which had been unofficially celebrated every 8 June since its original proposal in 1992 by Canada at the Earth Summit ...

Charles Glover Barkla was born on June 7, 1877 . He was a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his...

  A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth or another planet. The l...

Heinrich Rohrer was born on June 6, 1933 . He was a Swiss physicist who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the ...

World Environment Day ('WED') is celebrated every year on 5th June to raise global awareness of the need to take positive envir...

The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is a United Nations observance each 4 June. It was established on 19 Augu...

Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber s...

  India's(mainland) first tourist seaplane service was launched in Kerala state on 2 June 2013 . It was launched by Kerala Chief M...

Jacques Rogge is a Belgian sports administrator. He is the eighth and  ( current President of the International Olympic Committee , elec...

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