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 Burl Ives by The Ovi Team
14 June 2020
June 14th; Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, a prominent folk singer and Academy Award-winning actor, is born on this day in 1909 near Hunt City, Illinois. (Add a comment) |  Univac I by The Ovi Team
14 June 2020
June 14th 1951; Univac I was unveiled. It was a computer designed for the U.S. Census Bureau and billed as the world's first commercial computer. UNIVAC was, effectively, an updated version of ENIAC. (Add a comment) |  Zebra Crossings by The Ovi Team
14 June 2020
14th June 1961; following increasing numbers of accidents at uncontrolled zebra crossings a new type of road crossing with push button controls which will allow pedestrians to stop traffic... (Add a comment) |  MAN WALKING an UNPAVED ROAD by David Sparenberg
13 June 2020
Man walks along an unpaved road. His feet make rhyth - the rhythm of a human walking (a two legged, as sages say). His feet form patterns on the wending road - changes to micro-climates and eco-structures... (Add a comment) |  William Butler Yeats: A Road to the Higher Self by Rene Wadlow
13 June 2020
William Butler Yeats, whose birth anniversary we mark on 13 June, had three inter-related passions: a revival of Irish culture as a necessary contribution to political independence... (Add a comment) |  How God tends to be defined by Joseph Gatt
13 June 2020
There are different interpretations of how the monotheistic God of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and a few other religions that are "spinoffs" of the three Abrahamic religions... (Add a comment) |  Berserk Alert! #66 by Tony Zuvela
13 June 2020
Tony Zuvela and his view of the world around us in a constant berserk alert! (Add a comment) |  Miranda Rights by The Ovi Team
13 June 2020
13th June 1966; Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers The Supreme Court landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, "that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questio (Add a comment) |  Yeltsin wins first Russian elections by The Ovi Team
13 June 2020
June 13th 1991; Yeltsin wins first Russian elections. Boris Yeltsin is celebrating victory as Russia's first popularly-elected president. The 60-year-old reformer and leader of the group Democratic Russia has inflicted a heavy defeat on the Communist Par (Add a comment) |  Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour by Rene Wadlow
12 June 2020
12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labour. It marks the 12 June arrival in 1998 of hundreds of children in Geneva, part of the Global March against Child Labour (Add a comment) |  Irrepressible by Saloni Kaul
12 June 2020
Living off impulses might sound risky
But there's much to be said in its favour
As irrepressible laughter (pure as malt whisky) (Add a comment) |  Avoiding the Obvious: Skim Reading, Exams and the Internet by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
12 June 2020
It is the anxiety-inducing nightmare for the studious: A dream where you find yourself in an exam hall, which might, on ordinary days, be a gym or some other facility. It is repurposed for that most cruel of blood sports... (Add a comment) |  Let's end child labour! by The Ovi Team
12 June 2020
June 12th; the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts... (Add a comment) |  Al Capone indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws by The Ovi Team
12 June 2020
June 12th 1931; Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws. In May 1929, following his arrest in Philadelphia on a concealed weapons charge, Capone was sentenced to a year in prison. (Add a comment) | | newer 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 older |
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