Heinrich Rohrer was born onJune 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 ('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.
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(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 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.
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 (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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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 Brown was born onMay 22, 1912. He was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes.He died on December 19, 2004.