Upcoming Events
Only six months until Christmas. We're halfway there!
Since the release of the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, on 26 June 1997, the books have found immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide. They have attracted a wide adult audience as well as younger readers and are often considered cornerstones of modern young adult literature.
The 26th of June stands for a day of remembrance, which refers to an event of the recent German past. Specifically, this date as a so-called bear memorial day commemorates the death of the brown bear Bruno a.ka. JJ 1, which was shot in the early morning hours of 26 June 2006.
Slender: The Eight Pages is a free-to-play indie-developed first-person survival horror video game released in June 2012. Developed by Mark J. Hadley, the game is based on the quasi-folklore meme figure known as the Slender Man, who is depicted as a tall man wearing all black with a white face with no facial features.
Martha und Thomas Wayne werden in einer Gasse erschossen (Batman)
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote or produced such films as Regarding Henry Star Trek (2009), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), and the upcoming Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
With the Seven Sleepers Day on 27 June there is another contribution from the category of events with meteorological relevance. According to the liturgical calendar of the Christian churches this date stands for the memorial day of the seven sleepers of Ephesus on the one hand, but on the other hand also as one of the so-called Lostage for a weather forecast about the upcoming weather conditions of the coming June and July weeks.
June 27th honours the release of one of the most famous and popular songs of the last decades. Concretely: On 27 June 1924 the congratulatory song Happy Birthday to You was published.
Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971) is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder and CEO of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder and co-chairman of OpenAI; and co-founder of PayPal.
Since 2010, followers of the alternative circle number τ have been celebrating this date worldwide as the so-called Tau Day.
Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, (c. Summer 1881 – 30 June, 1997) was an English half-blood wizard, who was the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, later the Transfiguration Professor, and later Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
On June 30, 1908, there was quite a bang in Siberia. Cause: One or more explosions, as a result of which around 60 million trees were bent over an area of approx. 2000 km² and numerous windows and doors of the few dwellings in the area were crushed. It is not known exactly, but it is suspected that a meteor or asteroid was responsible for this so-called Tunguska event. In remembrance of this big bang, astronomers from all over the world always celebrate the International Day of the Meteor on June 30th.
On July 1, wit knows no bounds. At least according to the initiators of the International Jokes Day.
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1 July 1646 – 14 November 1716) was a prominent German polymath and philosopher in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy.
Tesla, Inc. is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing. It operates multiple production and assembly plants, notably Gigafactory 1 near Reno, Nevada, and its main vehicle manufacturing facility at Tesla Factory in Fremont, California. As of March 2019, Tesla sells the Model S, Model X, and Model 3 automobiles.
The 2nd of July stands for the so called Habe-I-Forgotten-Day. At least when it comes to our transatlantic neighbours in the USA.
Independence Day (also known as ID4) is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich.