Father's Day

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers  and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June(16,June on 2013). 

Hank Luisetti

Hank Luisetti was an American college men's basketball player and one of the great innovators of the game. He was born on June 16, 1916. In an era that featured the traditional two-handed set shot, Luisetti developed the running one-handed shot. He died on December 17, 2002. 

Georg Wittig

 

Georg Wittig was born on June 16, 1897, he was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979 He died on August 26, 1987.

First nonstop Atlantic flight lands in Ireland

British aviators Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919. Its first flight was on June 14, 1919 and  lands in Ireland on June 15,1919. They were the first people to fly an aircraft non-stop across the Atlantic ocean.

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.