World Blood Donor Day

On 14 June countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day annually. The event, established in 2004, serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank voluntary unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood. This year is the 10th anniversary of World Blood Donor Day.

Jules Bordet

 Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was born on June 13, 1870. He was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. He died on April 6, 1961. 

World Day Against Child Labour

The World Day Against Child Labour is observed on June 12 annually.

The International Labour Organization  created this observance in 2002 and it has been held annually since then.

Diesel exhaust from engine causes cancer

 

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization, released its finding in June 12, 2012 that diesel exhaust from engine causes cancer.

Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus

Vega 1 along with its twin Vega 2 is a Soviet space probe part of the Vega program. The spacecraft was a development of the earlier Venera craft. he descent module arrived at Venus on 11 June 1985, two days after being released from the Vega 1 flyby probe.

Eugene N. Parker

Eugene N. Parker was born June 10, 1927, he is an American astrophysicist who developed the theory on the supersonic solar wind and predicted the Parker spiral shape of the solar magnetic field in the outer solar system.

Kiran Bedi

 

Kiran Bedi is an Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service officer. Bedi joined the police service in 1972 and became the first woman officer in the IPS. She was born on 9 June 1949.

First trans-Pacific flight

On June 9, 1928 Charles Edward Kingsford Smith(http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/02/charles-edward-kingsford-smith.html) made the first trans-Pacific flight from the united States to Australia  in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane.

World Oceans Day

World Oceans Day, which had been unofficially celebrated every 8 June since its original proposal in 1992 by Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was officially recognized by the United Nations in 2008.

Charles Glover Barkla

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 work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays. He died on October 23, 1944.

Last Venus transit of the 21st century

 

A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth or another planet. The last transit of Venus was on 5 and 6 June 2012. It  was the last Venus transit of the 21st century. The prior transit took place on 8 June 2004 and the previous pair of transits were in December 1874 and December 1882. The next transits of Venus will be 10–11 December 2117, and in December 2125.

Heinrich Rohrer

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 design of the scanning tunneling microscope. He was died on  May 16, 2013. 

 

World Environment Day

World Environment Day ('WED') is celebrated every year on 5th June to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme. The first World Environment Day was in 1973.

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is a United Nations observance each 4 June. It was established on 19 August 1982.

Werner Arber

Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. He was born on June 3, 1929.

India's first tourist seaplane service

 

India's(mainland) first tourist seaplane service was launched in Kerala state on 2 June 2013. It was launched by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in the back waters of Ashtamudi Lake.

Jacques Rogge

Jacques Rogge is a Belgian sports administrator. He is the eighth and  (current President of the International Olympic Committee, elected in 2001. He was born on May 2, 1942.

1. 

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.