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.

World No Tobacco Day

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

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. 

Vishwanathan Anand - Fifth World Chess Championship

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.

First people to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest

 
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

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 Death Anniversary

 

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

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.

Ward Cunningham

 

Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. He was born on May 26, 1949.

 

Dragon Spacecraft

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.

Moscow Treaty

On March 24, 2002 Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty

8th state to ratify the US Constitution

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.