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Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is an American author. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, about a twelve-year-old Percy Jackson who discovers he is a son of Greek God Poseidon.
Happy Birthday Donald F. Duncan, Sr. (1892 - 1971). In his honor, the USA celebrates June 6 as National Yo-Yo Day.
Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Soviet Russian game designer Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov. The first playable version was completed on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the Soviet Union in Moscow.
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Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. In 1953, he co-authored with James Watson the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
The 8th of June is dedicated to the phenomenon of getting up in the morning with a good feeling. At least when it comes to our US-American neighbours, who celebrate this date as a so-called Hoppla day.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949, whose themes centre on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society.
PHP is a scripting language with a syntax similar to C and Perl, which is mainly used to create dynamic websites or web applications. Funfact: Nerdspot is mainly powered by PHP.
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.
Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie.
Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen.
Fans of unusual sports from the modern era should definitely note today 13 June in their calendars. Since 2017 this date stands for the International Axe Throwing Day.
Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff.
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.