Cable News Network launched

Cable News Network (CNN) was launched on 1 June 1980. It was  founded by Ted Turner and 25 other original members,who invested $20 million into the network. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States.

World No Tobacco Day

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 from all forms of tobacco consumption across the world. The member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day in 1987.

Charles Greeley Abbot

Charles Greeley Abbot was born on May 31, 1872 an he was  an American astrophysicist. As an astrophysicist, he researched the solar constant, research that led him to invent the solar equipments and other patented solar energy inventions. He died on December 17, 1973. 

Vishwanathan Anand - Fifth World Chess Championship

Indian Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand  beat his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in a tense rapid chess tiebreaker to win his fifth World Championship Title on 30 May 2012 in Moscow.

First people to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest

 
New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953. They were the first people to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Ian Lancaster Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer, best known for his James Bond series of spy novels and he was born on May 28, 1908. He died on
August 12, 1964.

Jawaharlal Nehru Death Anniversary

 

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister and he was born on 14 November 1889.  He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian Independence Movement  under the tutelage of  Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in office in 1964 May 27.

Sally Kristen Ride

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, became the first American woman to enter into low Earth orbit in 1983. She died on July 23, 2012.

Ward Cunningham

 

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

 

Dragon Spacecraft

The Dragon C2+  Spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station on 24 May 2012. It was launched on 22 May2012.

Moscow Treaty

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

8th state to ratify the US Constitution

South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States. It  was the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, the 8th state to ratify the US Constitution on May 23, 1788.

 

John Bardeen

 

John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.He born on May 23, 1908. He is the Co-Inventor of Transistor and he died on January 30, 1991.

Herbert Charles

Herbert Charles Brown was born on May 22, 1912. He was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes.He died on December 19, 2004.

Willem Einthoven

 

Willem Einthoven was born on May 21, 1860, he was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it.He died on September 29, 1927.

Vasco da Gama arrived in kappadu

 

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 sail directly from Europe to India and he arrived in kappadu near Calicut, Kerala, India on May 20, 1498.

Jay Berwanger

 

John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger was an American football halfback born in Dubuque, Iowa. He was born on March 19, 1914 and hewas the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy ( Heisman Trophy ) in 1935, He died on June 26, 2002.

International Museum Day

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) established International Museum Day in 1977 to encourage public awareness of the role of museums in the development of society. International Museum Day is organised around 18 May.

Alan Curtis Kay

 

Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He was born on May 17, 1940.

World Information Society Day

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 Society to build “a people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented information society” based on fundamental human rights. 

The day had previously been known as World Telecommunication Day to commemorate the founding of the International Telecommunication Union  in 17 May 1865.