Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. He was born on August 4, 1961.

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Jesse Wilford Reno

Jesse Wilford Reno was born on August 4, 1861. He was invented the first working escalator in 1891 used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City. His invention was referred to as the "inclined elevator." He died on June 2, 1947. 

 

Louisiana Superdome dedicated

The Mercedes-Benz Superdome originally Louisiana Superdome  is a domed sports and exhibition venue, located at the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA opened August 3, 1975.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was born on August2, 1834. He was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty and he died on October4, 1904.

Speed Post started In India

Speed Post was started by Department of Posts (India) in August 1, 1986 for providing time-bound and express delivery of letters, documents and parcels across the nation and around the world.

Friedrich Wohler

Friedrich Wohler was born on 31 July 1800. H was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea. He died on 23 September 1882.

Francoise Barre - Sinoussi

Francoise Barre - Sinoussi was born 30 July 1947. She  is a French virologist and director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France and performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS.

International Tiger Day

Global Tiger Day, also known as International Tiger Day , is an annual celebration to raise awareness for tiger conservation, held annually on 29 July. It was created in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit.

World Hepatitis Day

World Hepatitis Day, observed on July 28 every year, aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis B and hepatitis C and encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Johann Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was born on  27 July 1667. He  was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educated Leonhard Euler. He died on 1 January 1748.

Kargil Victory Day (India)

Kargil conflict officially comes to an end on July 26,1999. The Indian army launched its final attacks in the last week of July; as soon as the Drass subsector had been cleared of Pakistani forces, the fighting ceased on July 26. The day has since been marked as Kargil Vijay Diwas (Kargil Victory Day) in India. By the end of the war, India had resumed control of all territory south and east of the Line of Control, as was established in July 1972 as per the Simla Agreement.

India's first women president sworn

Pratibha Devisingh Patil is an Indian politician who served as the 12th President of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President on 25 July 2007. She retired from the office in July 2012.

 

First woman to perform a space walk

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a former Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. She served two duty tours on the Salyut 7 space station, and on her second one became the first woman to perform a space walk on July 25, 1984.

Lance Armstrong retires from the sports

On July 24, 2005, American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins a record-setting seventh consecutive Tour de France and retires from the sports.

153rd Member of the WTO

Cape Verde (island located in the central Atlantic Ocean)will formally join the World Trade Organisation on 23 July 2008, becoming the 153rd Member of the global trade body. On 18 December 2007, the General Council cleared the path for Cape Verde's membership in the WTO by approving a package of agreements which spell out the terms of Cape Verde's accession.

Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched

Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), more commonly known as Landsat 1, was carried into space aboard a Delta launch vehicle on July 23, 1972. ERTS began its journey from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and was placed in an orbit that would carry it over both the North and South Poles. This gave its special sensors an opportunity to scan every square mile of the earth’s surface.

Indian National Flag came into being in its present form

The Indian national flag was designed as a symbol of freedom. The Indian national flag, represents India's long struggle for freedom is a national treasure. It signifies the status of India as an independent republic. The Indian National Flag came into being in its present form at the meeting of Constitutional Assembly on 22nd July 1947.

Constitution of the World Health Organization had been signed

The constitution of the World Health Organization had been signed by all 61 countries of the United Nations by 22 July 1946, with the first meeting of the World Health Assembly  finishing on 24 July 1948

Rudolph Arthur Marcus

Rudolph Arthur Marcus is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems. He was born on July 21, 1923 .

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.