Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 and she was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. She died on 13 August 1910.

 

National Technology Day ( India )

11 May has been officially declared as National Technology Day in India to commemorate the first of the five tests that were carried out on 11 May 1998. The day was officially signed by the then Prime Minister of India. The day is celebrated by giving awards to various individuals and industries in the field of science and industry.

South Africa's first black president

Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president on May 10, 1994.   In April 1994 the Mandela-led ANC won South Africa’s first elections by universal suffrage, and on May 10 Mandela was sworn in as president of the country’s first multiethnic government.

A laser beam was successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.

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 laser ranging experiment. Later similar experiments used a reflector left on the moon’s surface by the Apollo 11 mission to increase accuracy.

William Francis Kemmler

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 an electric chair. He died on August 6, 1890.

 

Henry Dunant

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 social activist and he died on October 30, 1910.

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day

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

Rabindranath Tagore

 

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. He was born on  May 7, 1861. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. He died on  7 August 1941.

The first pope to enter a mosque

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

International Midwives' Day

International Midwives' Day was first celebrated May 5, 1991, and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world. The idea of having a day to recognize and honor midwives came out of the 1987 International Confederation of Midwives conference in the Netherlands.

The inaugural Grammy Awards

 

\The inaugural Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958.

World Press Freedom Day

The UN General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of press.

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden Killed

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 and he was the founder of  alQaeda, the jihadist organization that claimed responsibility for the September attack(9/11 attack in the United States in 2001 and other terrorist acts.) on the United States, along with numerous other  mass-casualty attack against civilian and military targets.  

 

On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by members of the United States naval Special Welfare Development group and Central Intelligence Agency operatives in a covert operation ordered by United States President Barack Obhama.

Miles Axe Copeland III

 

Miles Axe Copeland III was born on May 2, 1944, he is an American entertainment executive, best known for founding I.R.S. Records.  I.R.S. Records(A record label is a brand and a trademark  associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos)is a record label, launched in the US in 1979 by  Miles Axe Copeland III along with Jay Boberg  and Carl Grasso.

Gujarat & Maharashtra formed

The Bombay State was a state of India, split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states on May 1, 1960.

 

 The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 defined boundaries for the states within India on the basis of languages. The Bombay State  that was formed as a consequence of this act, however, was composed of different areas where different languages were spoken, so divide the Bombay State into two states

International Workers' Day

International Workers' Day or May Day is a celebration of the international labour movement on May .

Hitler committed suicide

 

Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Fuhrebunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889  and he was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. 

Justice M. Fathima Beevi

Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first female judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any higher judiciary. She is the first woman judge of a Supreme Court of a nation in India and Asia. She was born on April 30, 1927. 

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Harold Clayton Urey

Harold Clayton Urey was born on  April 29, 1893 and he was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. He discovered deuterium and he played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, but may be most prominent for his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matters.

International Dance Day

 

International Dance Day was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), UNESCO partner NGO, and is celebrated on April 29 every year.