Ada Yonath

Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She was born on June 22, 1939.

Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. He was born on  June 22, 1910. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became operational in May 1941. He died on December 18, 1995. 

First privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight

 

SpaceShipOne is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that made the first privately funded human spaceflight on June 21, 2004. First flight was on 20 May 2003 and retired 4 October 2004.

World Refugee Day

World Refugee Day, observed June 20 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees( a person who is outside his or her country ) throughout the world.

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri, is an Egyptian physician, Islamic theologian and current leader of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda. He was born on June 19, 1951.

Alphonse Laveran

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born on  June 18, 1845. He was a French physician. In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing  the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria. He also helped inspire researchers and veterinarians today to try to find a cure for malaria in animals. he died on May 18, 1922. 

Constitution of Iceland

The Constitution of Iceland was instituted on June 17, 1944. It is the supreme law of Iceland and it is composed of 80 articles in seven sections. The current constitution first instituted on June 17, 1944 has been amended seven times.

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.

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. 

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.