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1877  –  Alexander Graham Bell  installs the world's first commercial  telephone  service in  Hamilton, Ontario , Canada. 1887  –  Victoria Terminus , the busiest railway station in India, opens in  Bombay . Birthday of  Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins               Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins   (20 June 1861 – 16 May 1947) was an English  biochemist  who was awarded the  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  in 1929, with  Christiaan Eijkman , for the discovery of  vitamins .  He also discovered the amino acid  tryptophan , in 1901. He was  President of the Royal Society  from 1930 to 1935. Birthday of   Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar               Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar   (1869-1956) was an  Indian   businessman . He was the founder of the  Kirloskar Group .

Today the famous comic strip Garfield was first published. It chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield; his owner, Jon; and Jon's dog, Odie. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and  journals , and held the  Guinness World Record  for being the world's most widely  syndicated   comic strip .   Garfield  has spawned merchandise earning $750 million to $1 billion annually.

                  Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran  (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) was a French physician who won the  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  in 1907 for his discoveries of  parasitic   protozoans  as causative agents of  infectious diseases  such as  malaria  and  trypanosomiasis . Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. He obtained his medical degree from  University of Strasbourg  in 1867.  He discovered that the protozoan parasite ( Plasmodium ) was responsible for malaria, and that  Trypanosoma  caused trypanosomiasis or African sleeping sickness.

Today there are birthdays of mostly sports people...... Shane Watson       Shane Robert Watson  (born 17 June 1981) is a professional  cricketer from Australia. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He debuted for the  Australian cricket team  in 2002, playing his first One Day International against South Africa.       Watson was awarded the 2010   Allan Border Medal  and again in 2011,  becoming the second player (after  Ricky Ponting ) to win back-to back Allan Border Medals. He won a total of 6 awards in the Tests, ODI & T20I player of the year awards category, which is the most by any player. He is the only player to win "Player of the Year" award in all formats.       He holds several records in  ODIs  and  T20Is . Some of them include, the highest ODI score in a run-chase,  highest one day international score by an A...

         The  Ford Motor Company  (commonly referred to as simply  Ford ) is  an  American   multinational  automaker headquartered in  Dearborn, Michigan , a suburb of  Detroit . It was founded by  Henry Ford  and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the  Ford  brand and most luxury cars under the  Lincoln  brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer,  Troller , and Australian performance car manufacturer  FPV . In the past it has also produced tractors and automotive components.

Today is the birthday of  Lisa del Giocondo. She is the subject for the epic painting Mona Lisa           Lisa del Giocondo    (  15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542 or ca. 1551), also known as  Lisa Gherardini ,  Lisa di Antonio Maria  (or  Antonmaria )  Gherardini  and  Mona Lisa , was a member of the  Gherardini family  of  Florence  and  Tuscany  in  Italy . Her name was given to  Mona Lisa , her  portrait  commissioned by her husband and painted by  Leonardo da Vinci  during the  Italian Renaissance 1667  – The first human  blood transfusion  is administered by Dr.  Jean-Baptiste Denys . 1878  –  Eadweard Muybridge  takes  a series of photographs  to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of  motion pictures .

Birthday of Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner ,  (June 14, 1868 – June 26, 1943), was an Austrian  biologist  and  physician . [2]  He is noted for having first distinguished the main  blood groups  in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of  agglutinins  in the blood, and having identified, with  Alexander S. Wiener , the  Rhesus factor , in 1937, thus enabling physicians to  transfuse blood  without endangering the patient′s life. Birthday of  Che This man need no introduction. We all know him by direct or indirect information. He is  Ernesto  " Che "  Guevara.  Though we know him as   a major figure of the  Cuban Revolution , his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous  countercultural  symbol of  rebellion  and global insignia  in popular culture . He is al...

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Birthday of Thomas Young Thomas Young  (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was an English  polymath  and physician . Young made notable scientific contributions to the fields of  vision , light,  solid mechanics , energy,  physiology ,  language ,  musical harmony , and  Egyptology .  Young described the characterization of elasticity that came to be known as Young's modulus. In 1804, Young developed the theory of capillary phenomena on the principle of  surface tension . There are even much more things done by this great scientist. "The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one."

       Servants of India Society Gopala Krishna Gokhale        The  Servants of India Society  was formed in  Pune ,  Maharashtra , on June 12, 1905 by  Gopal Krishna Gokhale , [1]  who left the Deccan Education Society to form this association. Along with him were a small group of educated Indians, as Natesh Appaji Dravid, Gopal Krishna Deodhar and Anant Patwardhan who wanted to promote social and human development and overthrow the British rule in  India . The Society organized many campaigns to promote education, sanitation, health care and fight the  social evils  of  untouchability  and discrimination, alcoholism, poverty, oppression of women and domestic abuse.

            Lalu Prasad Yadav  (born 11 June 1948)  is an Indian politician from the state of  Bihar . He was  Chief Minister of Bihar  from 1990 to 1997 and  Minister of Railways  from 2004 to 2009 in the ruling  United Progressive Alliance  (UPA) government. He is the President of the  Rashtriya Janata Dal  political party. He was a  Member of Parliament  of  15th Lok Sabha  from the Saran constituency in Bihar.

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I think most of you like Pulsar..... Avenger....Discover..... Today is the birthday of Bajaj 's Chairman Rahul Bajaj...        Rahul Bajaj  (born 10 June 1938) is an Indian businessman, politician and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Indian conglomerate  Bajaj Group  and member of parliament.        Rahul Bajaj is an alumnus of  Harvard Business School  in USA,  St. Stephen's College, Delhi ,  Government Law College, Mumbai  and  Cathedral and John Connon School .        He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2001. An artist who doesn't need introduction. Best known for everything he does....Today is his birthday...         Nandamuri Balakrishna  ( Telugu :  నందమూరి బాలకృష్ణ ; born 10 June 1960) is an Indian film  actor and  politician  He entered the film industry as a child artist at t...