8 May - History and Importance of The Day

World Redcross Day

Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation - II World War

Mother's Day (2016)  Second Sunday May



 1942 - During World War II in the Pacific, the Battle of the Coral Sea began in which Japan would suffer its first defeat of the war.

May 8, 1945 - A second German surrender ceremony was held in Berlin. This time, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed the surrender document which declared, as did the first, that hostilities would end as of 12:01 a.m. on May 9th.

Birthdays

International Red Cross founder and Nobel Prize winner Henri Dunant (1828-1910). He was also a founder of the YMCA and organized the Geneva Conventions of 1863 and 1864.

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) the 33rd U.S. President. He became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945. Truman then authorized the dropping of the bombs on Japan..


8 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1 May - History and Importance of The Day

May Day

Observed as May Day, a holiday and spring festival since ancient times, also observed in socialist countries as a workers' holiday or Labor Day.




1707 - Great Britain was formed from a union between England and Scotland. The union included Wales which had already been part of England since the 1500's. The United Kingdom today consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/acts_of_union_01.shtml

2004 - Eight former Communist nations and two Mediterranean countries joined the European Union (EU) marking its largest-ever expansion. The new members included Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, along with the island of Malta and the Greek portion of the island of Cyprus. They joined 15 countries already in the EU, representing in all 450 million persons.

Birthday - African American Olympic athlete Archie Williams (1915-1993). Williams won a gold medal in the 400-meter race.

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1 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



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7 May - History and Importance of The Day

1915 - The British passenger ship Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, losing 1,198 of its 1,924 passengers, including 114 Americans. The attack hastened neutral America's entry into World War I.

1945 - General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of all German fighting forces thus ending World War II in Europe. Russian, American, British and French ranking officers observed the signing of the document which became effective at one minute past midnight on May 9th.

1954 - The French Indochina War ended with the fall of Dien Bien Phu, in a stunning victory by the Vietnamese over French colonial forces in northern Vietnam.

May 7, 1992 - The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, prohibiting Congress from giving itself pay raises.

Birthday
Composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).  He composed over 300 songs and numerous orchestral, choral, piano, and chamber works.



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7 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

6 May - History and Importance of The Day

1527 - The Sack of Rome by German troops as part of an ongoing conflict between the Hapsburg Empire and the French Monarchy. German troops killed over 4,000 Romans, imprisoned the Pope, and looted works of art and libraries.

Birthday - Psychoanalysis founder Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).  His theories became the foundation for treating psychiatric disorders by psychoanalysis and offered some of the first workable cures for mental disorders.

Birthday - Explorer Robert E. Peary (1856-1920).  He organized and led eight Arctic expeditions and reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909.


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6 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

5 May - History and Importance of The Day

International Midwives Day
Day of Vesak

Netherlands National Day


Celebrated in Mexico as Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in remembrance of the Battle of Puebla in 1862, in which Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza, outnumbered three to one, defeated the invading French forces of Napoleon III.



1260 - Kublai Khan became ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1494 - On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica
1893 - The Wall Street Crash of 1893 began as stock prices fell dramatically. By the end of the year, 600 banks closed and several big railroads were in receivership. Another 15,000 businesses went bankrupt amid 20 percent unemployment. It was the worst economic crisis in U.S. history up to that time.
1950 - Bhumibol Adulyadej was crowned King Rama IX of Thailand in the Royal Palace in Bangkok
1955 - Indian parliament accepted Hindu divorce bill.
1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He piloted the spacecraft Freedom 7 during a 15-minute 28-second suborbital flight that reached an altitude of 116 miles (186 kilometers) above the earth. Shepard’s success occurred 23 days after the Russians had launched the first-ever human in space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin,

2012 - Japan shut down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power.

Birth Days

Birthday - Communism founder Karl Marx (1818-1883) was born in Treves, Germany. He co-authored Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, advocating the abolition of all private property and a system in which workers own all the means of production, land, factories and machinery.


1864 - Nellie Bly - Nellie Bly was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, a reporter known for a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg. She launched a new kind of investigative journalism.She was an industrialist, inventor, and charity worker also.




5 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

4 May - History and Importance of The Day

1494 - During his second journey of exploration in the New World, Christopher Columbus discovered Jamaica.
1970 - At Kent State University, four students  were killed by National Guardsmen who opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 students protesting President Richard Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia.  The shootings set off tumultuous campus demonstrations across America resulting in the temporary closing of over 450 colleges and universities.

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4 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

3 May - History and Importance of The Day

World Press Freedom Day

Poland National Day




Birthdays
 Italian writer and statesman Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). His works The Prince and Discourses on Livy.

Birthday - Golda Meir (1898-1978) was born in Kiev, Russia. She was one of the founders of the modern state of Israel and served as prime minister from 1969 to 1974.
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3 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

2 May - History and Importance of The Day

2011 - U.S. Special Operations Forces killed Osama bin Laden during a raid on his secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Birthday - Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903).  He was elected Pope in 1878 at age 67 and lived to govern the church another 25 years.


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2 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

28 May - History and Importance of The Day

Azerbaijan National Day

Ethiopia National Day


1156 - Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet
1521 - Pope Leo X signs treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
1674 - German Parliament declares war on France

1901 - Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
1918 - Azerbaijan gains independence and declares itself a Democratic Republic
1919 - Armenia declares it's Independence
1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1961 - Amnesty International was founded by London lawyer Peter Berenson. He read about the arrest of a group of students in Portugal then launched a one-year campaign to free them called Appeal for Amnesty. Today Amnesty International has  members in 150 countries working to free prisoners of conscience, stop torture and the death penalty, and guarantee human rights for women.
1962 - US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
1998 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.

2002 - NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2004 - The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2007 - China's CSI 300 Stock Market Index rose above 4000 mark for the first time. It touched the peak of 4090.57. The CSI 300 was valued at 46 times earnings, maing it the most expensive market in the Asia-Pacific Region.
2008 - The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.


Birthday
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806). He became British prime minister at age 24 and served from 1783 to 1801 and again from 1804 to 1806.

All-around athlete Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) was born near Prague, Oklahoma. He won the pentathlon and decathlon events at the 1912 Olympic Games. .


28 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

18 May - History and Importance of The Day

International Museum Day

1803 - Britain declared war on France
1804 - Napolean Bonaparte proclaimed emperor of France
1860 - Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for President
1899 - World Goodwill Day - 26 Nations met for I Peace Confernce in Hague

1974 - India became the 6th Nation to explode an atomic bomb.


Birthdays

Hollywood director Frank Capra (1897-1991) was born in Palermo, Sicily. Best known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), It Happened One Night (1934) and You Can't Take It with You (1938).

Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) was born (as Karol Wojtyla) in Wadowice, Poland. In 1978, he became 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the first non-Italian elected in 456 years and the first Polish Pope.


18 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

17 May - History and Importance of The Day

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

Norway National Day



1792 - Two dozen merchants and brokers established the New York Stock Exchange. In good weather they operated under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. In bad weather they moved inside to a coffeehouse to conduct business.

1954 - In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation of public schools "solely on the basis of race" denies black children "equal educational opportunity" even though "physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may have been equal.

1991- Tim Berners-Lee set up HyperText Markup language (HTML) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) at CERN. He put the protocol on a computer. Thus first server got launched in the word wide web.





17 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

14 May - History and Importance of The Day

1509 - Battle of Agnadello - French beat Venetians.
1607 - The first permanent English settlement in America was established at Jamestown, Virginia, by a group of royally chartered Virginia Company settlers from Plymouth, England.
1610 - Assasination of Henry IV of France
1787 - Delegated assembled in Philadelphia to prepare the constitution of USA.

1842 - Illustrated London News, the first illustrated weekly newspaper began publication.
1862 - Chronograph patented.
1879 - First group of 463 Indian laborers arrived in Fiji.
1884 - Anti Monopoly party formed in USA.

1908 - first passenger flew in Airplane.
1940 - Netherlands surrendered to Germany.
1942 - During World War II, an Act of Congress allowed women to enlist for noncombat duties in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), the Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES), Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), and Semper Paratus Always Ready Service (SPARS), the Women's Reserve of the Marine Corp.
1944 - British troops occupied Kohima.
1963 - Kuwait joined as 111th member of United Nations
1973 -  Gold @$102.50 an ounce in London
2012 - Stanford University researchers developed prototype bionic eye.





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Birthdays

1686 - German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was born in Danzig, Germany. He introduced the use of mercury in thermometers and greatly improved their accuracy. His name is now attached to one of the major temperature measurement scales.
1948 - Bob Woolmer (Cricket)
1969 - Cate Blanchett (Films)
1984 - Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder)



14 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

13 May - History and Importance of The Day

IEEE Global Engineering Day - Engineering the Future Day
http://www.ieee.org/about/news/2009/11may.html



535 St. Agapiturs began his terms as Pope
1110 Crusaders marched into Beirut
1607 A Team of English people led John Smith landed near James River in Virginia.
1643 - Battle of Grantham

1830 - Republic of Equador is founded
1846 - At the request of President James K. Polk, Congress declared war on Mexico. The  war  resulted in the annexation of lands that became parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah and Colorado. The war ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
1884 - IEEE was formed.


1913 - first four engine aeroplane was flown (Igor Sikorsky, Russia)
1916 - first observance of Native American (Indian) Day
1927 - "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1943 - During World War II in North Africa, over 250,000 Germans and Italians surrendered in the last few days of the Tunis campaign. The victory re-opened Allied shipping lanes in the Mediterranean.
1947 - United States approves Taft-Hartley Act. Power Unions was curtailed.


1952 - Pandit Nehru became Prime Minister of India based on the First Lok Sabha Elections.
1952 - Rajya Sabha held its first Meeting in India
1979 - Shah of Iran and Family sentenced to death in Teheran
1981 - Pope John Paul was shot in Vatican City. He recovered
1998 - India carries two more nuclear tests as Pokhran (On May 11, 1998 also test was done)




13 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

12 May - History and Importance of The Day

International Nurses Day

World Migratory Birds' Day


254 - Stephan I replaced Lucius I as catholic pope.
1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)

1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented

1821 - The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurred in Valtetsi.

1870 - Manitoba became a province of Canada

1921 - National Hospital Day first observed in USA.

2008 - Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurred in Sichuan, China. It  killed over 69,000 people

Birthdays

1820 - Florence Nightingale - International Nurses Day is celebrated in her honor.
1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher

12 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

11 May - History and Importance of The Day

2014 Mother's Day

330 Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire

1812 - British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.

1814 - Americans defeated British at Battle of Plattsburgh

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11 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

10 May - History and Importance of The Day

World Lupus Day

Mother's Day - First observed in West Virginia in 1908 (It is now observed as the second Sunday of May)


1503 - Columbus discovered Cayman Islands
1752 - Benjamin Franklin tested the lightning with kite flying experiment.
1796 - Napoleon defeated Austria in the battle of Lodi Bridge.
1837 - Panic - Banks fail in  New York
1857 - Sepoy Mutiny in India started
1940 - German Army attacks Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
1945 - Allies captured Rangoon from Japanese
1959 - Soviet forces arrived in Afghanistan
1994 - Former political prisoner Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa. Mandela had won the first free election in South Africa

Birthdays



10 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

15 May - History and Importance of The Day

International Day of Families

Paraguay National Day



15 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

31 May - History and Importance of The Day

World No Tobacco Day

1279 BC – Rameses II became pharaoh of  Egypt.
455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.

1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans


1564 - Battle on Gotland: Lubeck & Denmark beat Sweden
1659 - Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague
1727 - France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris

1790 – The United States enacted its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1795 – French Revolution: the Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.

1900 - US troops arrived in Beijing to help put down Boxer Rebellion



31 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

24 May - History and Importance of The Day

World Schizophrenia Day

Eritrea National Day



1086 - Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1738 - Methodist Church forms
1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1815 - George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1822 - Battle of Pichincha  - Ecuador liberation important battle
           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pichincha
           http://www.ecuador.com/blog/the-battle-of-pichincha-a-war-of-independence
1844 - Telegraph inventor Samuel Morse sent the first official telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?" from the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.
1854 - Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US founded by John Miller Dickey and Sarah Emlen Cresson

1954 - IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1991 - Eritrean People's Liberation Front forces moved into the capitol Asmara, re-instating independence, following a severe 30 years battle against Ethiopian army regime.(Eritrea National Day)

2002 - Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.




24 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

23 May - History and Importance of The Day

World Turtle Day



1568 - The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1706 - Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed
1926 - Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
2008 - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.



23 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management