Famous People

The President of India, Shankar Dayal Sharma with The Sultan of Oman His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said bin Taimur.   In 1994 The President of India, Shankar Dayal Sharma visited Muscat on an official trip. When the Air India flight landed, three rather unusual incidents took place. The Sultan of Oman normally never goes to the airport to receive …

Here are a list of world top java people, contribution of these people to the java community will be never forget in history. 1. Father of the Java programming language James Gosling, generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language in 1994. He created the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. For …

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who became known for having organised the expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth completed by Juan Sebastian Elcano. Magellan’s expedition of 1519–1522 became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean, and the first to cross the Pacific. His expedition completed the first circumnavigation of …

April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and …

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer and captain. He took up cricket at the age of eleven. Sachin widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. Here are some interesting information about Sachin Tendulkar. Early Life and Education Sachin Tendulkar’s journey began at Indian Education Society’s New English School in Bandra East, Mumbai. Born into …

Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (RA) was 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras. Here is a brief biography of Ambassador of Peace Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin. Biography Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (RA) Born on Saturday the 20th Rabiul Akhar 1333h, 06th March 1915 in Surat, Gujarat, India in the house of 51st Dai-el-Mutlaq, Syedna Taher Saifuddin AQ through Husaina Aaisaheba and named as …

Sir CV Raman, (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman …

William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913 – September 17, 1993), generally known as Willie Mosconi, was an American professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Willie’s father Joseph Mosconi owned a pool hall that the family lived above. Joseph Mosconi was strongly opposed to Willie playing pocket billiards, preferring he become a Vaudeville performer. He tried to keep his …

Michael Kearney became known as the worlds youngest college graduate at the age of 10. In 2008, Kearney earned $1,000,000 on the television game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Michael Kevin Kearney (born January 18, 1984, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) is a former child prodigy known for setting several world records and teaching college at the age of …