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.

William Francis Kemmler

William Francis Kemmler was born on May 9, 1860 and he  was a convicted murderer and the first person in the world to be executed using an electric chair. He died on August 6, 1890.

 

Henry Dunant

Jean Henri Dunant (Henry Dunant) was born on May 8, 1828 . He was known as the founder of Red Cross.  He was a Swiss businessman and social activist and he died on October 30, 1910.

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is observed annually on May 8.

Rabindranath Tagore

 

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. He was born on  May 7, 1861. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. He died on  7 August 1941.

The first pope to enter a mosque

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque on 6th July 2001 during a trip to Syria.

International Midwives' Day

International Midwives' Day was first celebrated May 5, 1991, and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world. The idea of having a day to recognize and honor midwives came out of the 1987 International Confederation of Midwives conference in the Netherlands.

The inaugural Grammy Awards

 

\The inaugural Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1958.

World Press Freedom Day

The UN General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of press.

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden Killed

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 and he was the founder of  alQaeda, the jihadist organization that claimed responsibility for the September attack(9/11 attack in the United States in 2001 and other terrorist acts.) on the United States, along with numerous other  mass-casualty attack against civilian and military targets.  

 

On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by members of the United States naval Special Welfare Development group and Central Intelligence Agency operatives in a covert operation ordered by United States President Barack Obhama.

Miles Axe Copeland III

 

Miles Axe Copeland III was born on May 2, 1944, he is an American entertainment executive, best known for founding I.R.S. Records.  I.R.S. Records(A record label is a brand and a trademark  associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos)is a record label, launched in the US in 1979 by  Miles Axe Copeland III along with Jay Boberg  and Carl Grasso.

Gujarat & Maharashtra formed

The Bombay State was a state of India, split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states on May 1, 1960.

 

 The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 defined boundaries for the states within India on the basis of languages. The Bombay State  that was formed as a consequence of this act, however, was composed of different areas where different languages were spoken, so divide the Bombay State into two states

International Workers' Day

International Workers' Day or May Day is a celebration of the international labour movement on May .

Hitler committed suicide

 

Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Fuhrebunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889  and he was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. 

Justice M. Fathima Beevi

Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first female judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any higher judiciary. She is the first woman judge of a Supreme Court of a nation in India and Asia. She was born on April 30, 1927. 

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Harold Clayton Urey

Harold Clayton Urey was born on  April 29, 1893 and he was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. He discovered deuterium and he played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, but may be most prominent for his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matters.

International Dance Day

 

International Dance Day was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), UNESCO partner NGO, and is celebrated on April 29 every year.

Workers' Memorial Day

Workers' Memorial Day, International Workers' Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning   takes place annually around the world on April 28, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

 

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27, 1791, he is an American inventor. He contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, was a co-inventor of the Morse code, and also an accomplished painter.He died on April 2, 1872.

World Intellectual Property Day

World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on 26 April. The event was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000 to "raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life" and "to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovations to the development of societies across the globe.

A patent was granted for the thimble.

 

On April 25, 1684 a patent is granted for a thimble. A thimble is a small hard pitted cup worn for protection on the finger that pushes the needle in sewing.

 

world's first cloned dog

Snuppy also known as "doggy"; born April 24, 2005 Known for, First ever cloned dog is an Afghan hound, credited with being the world's first cloned dog.The puppy was created using the cell of an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only three produced pups

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar was born April 24, 1973 in Bombay, India, to a middle-class family, the youngest of four children. His father was a professor while his mother worked for a life insurance company. Given his first cricket bat at the age 11, Tendulkar was just 16 when he became India's youngest Test cricketer.

World Book and Copyright Day

World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day is a yearly event on 23 April, organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. It is also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days.  In the United Kingdom, the day is instead recognized on the first Thursday in March. World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on 23 April 1995.

The first video was uploaded to YouTube.com

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal  employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo,and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site.

Steve Fossett

James Stephen "Steve" Fossett was an American businessman, and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was Born on April 22, 1944 and he was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and first to cross Pacific in a balloon. He died on September 3, 2007.

The first human eye transplant

On April 22, 1969, doctors at Methodist Hospital in Houston performed what was billed as the first human eye transplant on John Madden, 54, owner of a photography studio. The donor eye was taken from a man who had died of a brain tumor and the donor cornea,lens and iris were given to Madden. Although the transplant failed to restore Madden's sight--it has been reported that the donor eye was not preserved enough to keep it viable--the historic procedure was considered a medical miracle.

Earth Day

 

Earth Day is an annual day on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Earth Day is observed on April 22 each year. The April 22 date was designated as International Mother Earth Day by a consensus resolution adopted by the UN in 2009. It is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.

Thrissur Pooram

 

Thrissur Pooram  is one of the most popular temple festivals of the South Indian state Kerala. It is held at Vadakkunnathan every year on 'Pooram'  day of the Malayalam Calender month of 'Medam'. 'Pooram' day is the day when the moon rises with the Pooram star. In 2013 its Pooram is on April 21.

 

The World Digital Library.

On 21 April 2009 UNESCO along with 32 partner institutions  launched The World Digital Library. The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress. The web site features free unlimited access to cultural material from around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints, and photographs.