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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.
Ezio Auditore da Firenze (1459 – 1524) was a Florentine nobleman during the Renaissance, and, unbeknownst to most historians and philosophers, a Master Assassin and the Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, a title which he held from 1503 to 1513.
On 24 June 1947, the first sighting of a phenomenon by the US American Kenneth Arnold (1915 - 1984) took place, which is known today under the term UFO. Accordingly, the so-called Day of the UFO is also celebrated today.
Only six months until Christmas. We're halfway there!
Since the release of the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, on 26 June 1997, the books have found immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide. They have attracted a wide adult audience as well as younger readers and are often considered cornerstones of modern young adult literature.
The 26th of June stands for a day of remembrance, which refers to an event of the recent German past. Specifically, this date as a so-called bear memorial day commemorates the death of the brown bear Bruno a.ka. JJ 1, which was shot in the early morning hours of 26 June 2006.
Slender: The Eight Pages is a free-to-play indie-developed first-person survival horror video game released in June 2012. Developed by Mark J. Hadley, the game is based on the quasi-folklore meme figure known as the Slender Man, who is depicted as a tall man wearing all black with a white face with no facial features.
Martha und Thomas Wayne werden in einer Gasse erschossen (Batman)