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.