First human on the Moon

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface.

Edmund Hillary

Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. He was born on 20 July 1919. Hillary and  Nepalese mountaineer  Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of  Mount Everest. http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/05/first-people-to-ever-reach-summit-of.html He died on 11 January 2008.

Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt was born on July 19, 1814 and he was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, and made the mass-production of the revolver commercially viable for the first time.He died on January 10, 1862.

Nelson Mandela

 

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.He was born on born 18 July 1918.http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/02/nelson-rolihlahla-mandela-released-from.html

International Justice Day

World Day for International Justice is also referred to as Day of International Criminal Justice or International Justice Day is celebrated throughout the world on July 17 as part of an effort to recognize the emerging system of international criminal justice. July 17 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the International Criminal Court.

Roald Amundsen - First to reach South Pole

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was was born on July 16, 1872. He was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition to discover the South Pole in December 1911 and he was the first expedition leader to reach the North Pole in 1926. He died on June 18, 1928.  

Indian Rupee Sign Adopted

The rupee sign Rs was  formerly used to represent the Indian rupee until July 15, 2010, when it was replaced by a new currency symbol, and officially adopted by the Government of India.

 

Telegram service in India to close

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL- It is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company headquartered in New Delhi, India.) announced it was closing the 160-year-old telegraph service with the last transmission on July 14, 2013.

Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas

Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas was born on 14 July 1800 was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities. He died on 10 April 1884. 

Stanislao Cannizzaro

Stanislao Cannizzaro was born on July 13, 1826, he was an Italian chemist. He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860. He died on May 10, 1910. 

Elias James Corey

Elias James Corey is an American organic chemist. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis. He was born on July 12, 1928.

World Population Day

 

World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.

First black man to win Wimbledon

Arthur Robert Ashe was an American professional tennis player. He was born on July 10, 1943. He won three Grand Slam titles, ranking him among the best tennis players from the United States. He is an African American, was the first black player ever selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open.
He died on February 6, 1993.

1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held

 

The Wimbledon Championships or simply Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877.The inaugural 1877 Wimbledon Championship opened on 9 July 1877.

First Rupee Symbol Coins

The first series of coins with the rupee symbol ( )was launched on 8 July 2011.

Peruman Train Tragedy

On July 8, 1988, the Peruman Train Tragedy, the Bangalore - Kanyakumari Island Express train derailed on the Peruman bridge over Ashtamudi Lake, near Perinadu, Kollam, Kerala, India and fell into the lake, killing 105 people.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program on July 8,2011 and landing at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on 21 July 2011  . The last mission of Atlantis was STS-135,This final flight, authorized in October 2010, brought additional supplies to the International Space Station and took advantage of the processing performed for the Launch on Need mission, which would only have been flown in the event that Endeavour's STS-134 crew required rescue.

United Communist Party of Armenia formed

United Communist Party of Armenia  is a political party in Armenia. It was formed on July 7, 2003
through the merger of Renewed Communist Party of Armenia, Armenian Labour Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Union of Communists of Armenia, Marxist Party of Armenia, Party of Intellectuals.

Nettie Maria Stevens

 

Nettie Maria Stevens was born on July 7, 1861. She was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal ( X,Y) basis of sex. She died on May 4, 1912.

Vince McMahon, Sr

Vincent James "Vince" McMahon, better known as Vince McMahon, Sr,  was born on July 6, 1914. He was was an American professional wrestling promoter. He is best known for founding the American World Wide Wrestling Federation promotion. He died on May 24, 1984.

Dolly the sheep

Dolly was a female domestic sheep born on  5 July 1996 and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland, the United Kingdom. She died on 14 February 2003. 

United States of America Independence Day

 

The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation—the United States of America.

Raymond Pearl

Raymond Pearl was born on June 3, 1879 and he was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He died on November 17, 1940. 

Pete Conrad

Charles "Pete" Conrad was born on June 2, 1930. He was a U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon. He died on July 8, 1999. 

Louis Bleriot

 

Louis Charles Joseph Bleriot was born on 1 July 1872, he was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars. In 1909 he became world famous for making the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft. He died on 1 August 1936.

Doctor's Day (India)

The Doctor's Day is celebrated on July 1 all across India to honour the legendary physician and the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.  He was born on July 1, 1882 and died on the same date in 1962, aged 80  years. Dr Roy was honoured with the country's highest civilian award,  Bharat Ratna on February 4, 1961.

25paise coin is No More

RBI (Reserve Bank Of India) withdrawn 25paise from June 30, 2011. June 30 is the last day of 25paise. The withdrawn is based upon to the section 15A of the coinage Act, 1906.

The first generation iPhone was released

The iPhone  is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system, known as the "iPhone OS" until June 2010, with the release of iOS 4. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007.

Klaus von Klitzing

Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born on June 28, 1943. 

Hans Spemann

Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues and organs. He was born on June 27, 1869.

Father of space telescopes

Lyman Strong Spitzer was born on  June 26, 1914. He was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer best known for his research in star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, for conceiving the idea of telescopes operating in outer space. Died on March 31, 1997.

UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

The United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture – 26 June is held annually on 26 June to speak out against the crime of torture and to honour and support victims and survivors throughout the world.

State of emergency (India)

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy." on June 25, 1975.

Lord Mountbatten

 

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, known informally as Lord Mountbatten- was born on 25 June 1900. He was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II. He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India (1947–48), from which the modern Republic of India emerged in 1950. He died on 27 August 1979. 

Michael Joseph Jackson died

 

Michael Joseph Jackson http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/02/michael-jackson-won-record-eight-awards.htmlwas an American singer-songwriter, dancer, businessman and philanthropist. While preparing for his concert series titled This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on

 June 25, 2009, after suffering from cardiac arrest.  He was born on August 29, 1958.

Martin L. Perl

Martin Lewis Perl is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton( It is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with negative electric charge and a spin of 1⁄2). He was born on June 24, 1927.

United Nations Public Service Day

The United Nations Public Service Award is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in  public service. It rewards the creative achievements and contributions of public service institutions that lead to a more effective and responsive public administration in countries worldwide. Through an annual competition, the UN Public Service Awards promotes the role, professionalism and visibility of public service. In 2003, the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/57/277, designated June 23 as the United Nations Public Service Day to “celebrate the value and virtue of public service to the community”.

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.