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June 14 is all about a day of action, which I am happy to take up at this point. Because this date is celebrated in many countries as the so-called World Blood Donation Day, which is intended to draw attention to the importance of blood donation.
Generally speaking, Greek antiquity is said to have been associated with a whole host of relevant inventions in the context of human cultural history: mathematics, philosophy, theatre, etc. - to name but a few disciplines. Less well known, on the other hand, is the matter of an extensive bath, in whose honour today, June 14th, is also celebrated as International Bathing Day.
The Star Trek universe has been celebrating June 16 since 2007 as the so-called Captain Picard Day.
Krypton is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The planet is the native world of Superman and is named after the element Krypton.
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company sells database software and technology, cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products particularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2018, Oracle was the third-largest software company by revenue.
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924.
The 18th of June is again a date on which a single day of celebration or action does not seem to suffice. One of them is the International Panic Day, which this article examines.
All fans of Japanese cuisine should mark June 18th red in their calendars. The culinary collection celebrates this date as International Sushi Day.
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.
June 21st is all about outerwear. At least when it comes to the social commerce company Spreadshirt, which declared this date to be International T-Shirt Day in 2008.
21 June is all about self-portraits. At least according to the US-American Rick McNeely, who celebrated this date 2014 in the United States on the so-called National Selfie Day.
Konrad Zuse (22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941.
Jill Valentine (September 28, 1974) is a main character in the Resident Evil series of survival horror games. She is one of the most prominent human characters in the franchise and one of the most popular characters.
Joseph Hill Whedon (/ˈhwiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an American producer, director, screenwriter, comic book writer, and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series.
The 23rd of June is all about a writing tool. Since 2011, typewriter fans all over the world have been celebrating this date as the so-called typewriter's day.
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.