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.

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.