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.

J. Georg Bednorz

Johannes Georg Bednorz was born on May 16, 1950, he is a German physicist who, together with
 K. Alex Müller(http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/04/karl-alexander-muller.html), discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.

International Day of the Family

May 15 is celebrated as the International Day of the Family. This day highlights the importance of families. It aims at fostering equality, bringing about a fuller sharing of domestic responsibilities and employment opportunities. The programmes undertaken to commemorate the day, work towards supporting families in the discharge of their functions. They tend to promote the inherent strengths of families, including their great capacity of self-reliance, and stimulate self-sustaining activities.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook. He was born May 14, 1984.

Ronald Ross

Ronald Ross was a British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. He was born on 13 May 1857. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal track of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria  was transmitted by Anopheles, and laid the foundation for combating the disease.He died on 16 September 1932. 

India a full-fledged nuclear state

The Indian Government led by prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared that  India a full-fledged nuclear state in a press conference on May 13, 1998 after Pokhran-II refers to the series of five Nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range. 

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.