International Lefthanders Day

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International Lefthanders Day is observed on August 13 by Lefthanders International. It was first observed 13 August 1976. As its name suggests, it is meant to promote awareness of the inconveniences facing left-handers in a predominantly right-handed world.

Co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records

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 Alan Ross McWhirter( known as Ross McWhirter) was born on August 12, 1925. He was the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records and a contributor to Record Breakers with his twin brother, Norris. He died on November 27, 1975. 

International Youth Day

International Youth Day is an awareness day designated by the United Nations. It was first on 12 August 2000. As with other political awareness days, such as Earth Day, the purpose of the day is to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding an endangered demographic.

  

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First ascent of the Eiger

The Eiger is a 3,970 metres  mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the Monch to the Jungfrau at 4,158 m. The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren and Irishman Charles Barrington, who climbed the west flank on August 11, 1858.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Jean-Francois Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism(It is a term which describes the postmodernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements.). He was born on 10 August 1924 and died on 21 April 1998.

International Day of the World's Indigenous People

The International Day of the World's Indigenous People is observed on August 9 each year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. It was first pronounced by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1994.

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born August 8, 1901. He was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron atom-smasher beginning in 1929, based on his studies of the works of Rolf Widerøe, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project.He died on August 27, 1958.

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903. He was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa, particularly through his discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge. He died on October 1, 1972. 

 

Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

The day when an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 6 August 1945, followed a few days later (August 9,1945) by another dropped on the city of Nagasaki.

Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel was born on August 5, 1802. He was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals and he died on  April 6, 1829. 

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. He was born on August 4, 1961.

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Jesse Wilford Reno

Jesse Wilford Reno was born on August 4, 1861. He was invented the first working escalator in 1891 used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City. His invention was referred to as the "inclined elevator." He died on June 2, 1947. 

 

Louisiana Superdome dedicated

The Mercedes-Benz Superdome originally Louisiana Superdome  is a domed sports and exhibition venue, located at the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA opened August 3, 1975.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was born on August2, 1834. He was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty and he died on October4, 1904.

Speed Post started In India

Speed Post was started by Department of Posts (India) in August 1, 1986 for providing time-bound and express delivery of letters, documents and parcels across the nation and around the world.

Friedrich Wohler

Friedrich Wohler was born on 31 July 1800. H was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea. He died on 23 September 1882.

Francoise Barre - Sinoussi

Francoise Barre - Sinoussi was born 30 July 1947. She  is a French virologist and director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France and performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS.

International Tiger Day

Global Tiger Day, also known as International Tiger Day , is an annual celebration to raise awareness for tiger conservation, held annually on 29 July. It was created in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit.

World Hepatitis Day

World Hepatitis Day, observed on July 28 every year, aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis B and hepatitis C and encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Johann Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was born on  27 July 1667. He  was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educated Leonhard Euler. He died on 1 January 1748.

Kargil Victory Day (India)

Kargil conflict officially comes to an end on July 26,1999. The Indian army launched its final attacks in the last week of July; as soon as the Drass subsector had been cleared of Pakistani forces, the fighting ceased on July 26. The day has since been marked as Kargil Vijay Diwas (Kargil Victory Day) in India. By the end of the war, India had resumed control of all territory south and east of the Line of Control, as was established in July 1972 as per the Simla Agreement.

India's first women president sworn

Pratibha Devisingh Patil is an Indian politician who served as the 12th President of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President on 25 July 2007. She retired from the office in July 2012.

 

First woman to perform a space walk

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a former Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. She served two duty tours on the Salyut 7 space station, and on her second one became the first woman to perform a space walk on July 25, 1984.

Lance Armstrong retires from the sports

On July 24, 2005, American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins a record-setting seventh consecutive Tour de France and retires from the sports.

153rd Member of the WTO

Cape Verde (island located in the central Atlantic Ocean)will formally join the World Trade Organisation on 23 July 2008, becoming the 153rd Member of the global trade body. On 18 December 2007, the General Council cleared the path for Cape Verde's membership in the WTO by approving a package of agreements which spell out the terms of Cape Verde's accession.

Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched

Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), more commonly known as Landsat 1, was carried into space aboard a Delta launch vehicle on July 23, 1972. ERTS began its journey from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and was placed in an orbit that would carry it over both the North and South Poles. This gave its special sensors an opportunity to scan every square mile of the earth’s surface.

Indian National Flag came into being in its present form

The Indian national flag was designed as a symbol of freedom. The Indian national flag, represents India's long struggle for freedom is a national treasure. It signifies the status of India as an independent republic. The Indian National Flag came into being in its present form at the meeting of Constitutional Assembly on 22nd July 1947.

Constitution of the World Health Organization had been signed

The constitution of the World Health Organization had been signed by all 61 countries of the United Nations by 22 July 1946, with the first meeting of the World Health Assembly  finishing on 24 July 1948

Rudolph Arthur Marcus

Rudolph Arthur Marcus is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems. He was born on July 21, 1923 .

First human on the Moon

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface.

Edmund Hillary

Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. He was born on 20 July 1919. Hillary and  Nepalese mountaineer  Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of  Mount Everest. http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/05/first-people-to-ever-reach-summit-of.html He died on 11 January 2008.

Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt was born on July 19, 1814 and he was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, and made the mass-production of the revolver commercially viable for the first time.He died on January 10, 1862.

Nelson Mandela

 

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.He was born on born 18 July 1918.http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/02/nelson-rolihlahla-mandela-released-from.html

International Justice Day

World Day for International Justice is also referred to as Day of International Criminal Justice or International Justice Day is celebrated throughout the world on July 17 as part of an effort to recognize the emerging system of international criminal justice. July 17 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the International Criminal Court.

Roald Amundsen - First to reach South Pole

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was was born on July 16, 1872. He was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition to discover the South Pole in December 1911 and he was the first expedition leader to reach the North Pole in 1926. He died on June 18, 1928.  

Indian Rupee Sign Adopted

The rupee sign Rs was  formerly used to represent the Indian rupee until July 15, 2010, when it was replaced by a new currency symbol, and officially adopted by the Government of India.

 

Telegram service in India to close

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL- It is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company headquartered in New Delhi, India.) announced it was closing the 160-year-old telegraph service with the last transmission on July 14, 2013.

Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas

Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas was born on 14 July 1800 was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities. He died on 10 April 1884. 

Stanislao Cannizzaro

Stanislao Cannizzaro was born on July 13, 1826, he was an Italian chemist. He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860. He died on May 10, 1910. 

Elias James Corey

Elias James Corey is an American organic chemist. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis. He was born on July 12, 1928.

World Population Day

 

World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.

First black man to win Wimbledon

Arthur Robert Ashe was an American professional tennis player. He was born on July 10, 1943. He won three Grand Slam titles, ranking him among the best tennis players from the United States. He is an African American, was the first black player ever selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open.
He died on February 6, 1993.

1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held

 

The Wimbledon Championships or simply Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877.The inaugural 1877 Wimbledon Championship opened on 9 July 1877.

First Rupee Symbol Coins

The first series of coins with the rupee symbol ( )was launched on 8 July 2011.