The days of June is not just brilliance of the sun, the soothing breeze of the evenings, and the budding romance in one's heart. The fairly recent history tells us that there had been very important and significant days of June that totally changed the course of life of the world and all mankind. Like the 1st written work on the solar specks; the first publication about Aids too also in June, the Month when the magnetic North Pole was located; and the commercial TV in colour, amongst other phenomenon discoveries.
400 years ago: on 13/06/1611 - the first ever work about solar specks or blemishes was recorded by Johannes Fabricius (1587-1616). He became the first ever astronaut that published his observations about the stains of sun, but remained practically ignored until 1723.
180 years ago: on 01/06/1831 - The British explorer James Clark Ross located the position of the magnetic North Pole in the Peninsula of Hoothia, north of Canada.
In the same year: on 13/06/1831 - The Scottish physicist James Clark Maxwell, established in his thesis the nature of the light as electromagnetic wave.
90 years ago: on 25/06/1921 - The chemist Friedrich K. Bergius invented the synthetic gasoline and 10 years later, this German scientist received the Nobel.
60 years ago: on 14/06/1951 - The commercial computer entered in action. It's the UNIVAC 1 - designed by John Adam Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, the same investigators who 5 years back created the ENIAC, the 1st electronic brain. The UNIVAC was installed in the office of Censor of United States, measured 5 metres long, weighed more than 7 tones, and housed 5,000 vacuum tubes that could effect 1,000 calculations per second, capable of adding, detracting, multiplying and dividing; organizing and made root directory and hard disks.
Also 60 years ago: on 25/06/1951 - The channel Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) emitted the 1st commercial programme in colour in the history of television.
40 years ago: on 29/06/1971 - Three astronauts died during a space mission. The 'Sonda Soyuz 11' returned to earth with the dead crew; suffocated, as consequence of escape of air in the capsule. They lacked adequate space suits. The 3 were honoured by the Soviet Union in a series of stamps.
30 years ago: on 05/06/1981 - Aids became news. Michael S. Gottieb, an assistant professor of immunology of the medical centre of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) described a new disease in Mobility & Mortality weekly Report, a publication of the centres for the Centre Prevention of diseases of the US. Six months after, ample articles appeared on the theme, signed by himself and other experts, in the magazine 'The New England Journal of Medicine, causing wide and deep impact.
From July 1982 - the disease is known as acquired Immune-deficiency (Aids).
In 1987- Gottieb left UCLA, to dedicate to the treatment of this infection and impel the investigation on the disease. He was one of the first to test in patients the drug Zidovudina or AZT, the pioneer medication antiretrovural.
Did you notice one great curiosity or coincidence? All these dates carry the year xxx1?!
