Tuesday, 23 June 2015

23-JUNE-1996 :- Death Of Andreas Papandreou , Prime Minister Of Greek.

Andreas G. Papandreou 
( 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics.He served two terms as Prime Minister of Greece from 21 October 1981 to 2 July 1989 and from 13 October 1993 to 22 January 1996.

23-JUNE-1980 :- Death Of V. V. Giri , President Of India.

Varahagiri Venkata Giri 
(10 August 1894 – 23 June 1980) known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974.He was Vice President of India in 1967. Following the death of President Zakir Hussain, Giri also served as Acting President of India from 3 May 1969 to 20 July 1969. In the Presidential election of 1969, he won as an independent candidate defeating Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.

Monday, 22 June 2015

23-JUNE-1943 :- Birth Of Vint Cerf , Father Of Internet , American Computer Scientist.

Vinton Gray "VintCerf
( born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist and internet pioneer.Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet.

23-JUNE-1937 :- Birth Of Martti Ahtisaari , President Of Finland , Nobel Prize winner.

Martti Ahtisaari
(born June 23, 1937) is a Finnish politician and noted mediator, he  was the President of Finland from 1994 to 2000In October 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his efforts on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts".

23-JUNE-1936 :- Birth Of Costas Simitis , Prime Minister Of Greek.

Konstantinos Simitis 
(born 23 June 1936), usually referred to as Costas Simitis or Kostas Simitisis a Greek legal scholar politician he served as Prime Minister of Greece and was leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement(PASOK) from 1996 to 2004.

23-JUNE-1907 :- Birth Of James Meade , Nobel Prize winner.

James Edward Meade 
(23 June 1907 – 22 December 1995) was a British economist. He win the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "path breaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."

Sunday, 21 June 2015

22-JUNE-2004 :- Death Of Bob Bemer , Computer Scientist.

Robert William Bemer 
(February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Bemer is the inventor of the words "Cobol," and "CODASYL," six ASCII characters, and the concepts of registry and escape sequences in character codes.He was the member of the committee that design COMTRAN language and produced the specifications for COBOL language. He also invented the term and defined the nature of the "software factory."Bob invented an approach to Y2K (Year 2000) date conversion, to avoid anticipated problems when dates without centuries were compared in programs for which source code was not available. This involved detecting six and eight character operations at run time and checking their operands, adjusting the comparison so that low years in the new century did not appear to precede the last years of the twentieth century.