08 June - India’s first international flight -Air India

On this day, June 8, 1948, India’s first international flight departed from Mumbai (then Bombay). The aircraft ‘Malabar Princess’ travelled about 5,000 miles to reach London in a 24-hour trip with refueling stops at Cairo and Geneva. The Air India’s flight was a weekly service started between India and United Kingdom.

It was a 40 seater Lockheed L - 749 Constellation , propeller driven , four engine aircraft , registered as VT - CQS . According to advertisment put in the newspaper at that time , the cost of a ticket was Rs 1720/- . The captain of the flight was K.R. Guzdar . 

08 June - National Best Friends Day

National Best Friends Day is observed on June 8 of every year

National Best Friend Day seeks to celebrate best friends and the contribution that best friends make in our daily lives. A best friend is a friend that you consider closest to you. It is a person that you can always rely on, someone genuine, trustworthy and who accepts you for who you are.

Quotes:

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” — Anonymous

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali

08 June - World Oceans Day

World Oceans Day takes place annually on the 8th of June. The concept was originally proposed in 1992 by Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.World Oceans Day was officially recognised by the United Nations in 2008. The International day supports the implementation of worldwide Sustainability Development Goals, and fosters public interest in the management of the ocean and its resources.

The day is marked in a variety of ways, including launching new campaigns and initiatives, special events at aquariums and zoos, outdoor explorations, aquatic and beach cleanups, educational and conservation action programs, art contests, film festivals, and sustainable seafood events. Youth have been playing an increasingly important role since 2015. The World Oceans Day Youth Advisory Council has been helping lead conservation awareness and action efforts globally since 2016.

For 2024, we are launching a new multi-year action theme: Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate. By growing the movement through transformative collaboration, we aim to create not only a healthy blue planet, but also a more just, equitable and sustainable society.

07 June - National Chocolate Ice Cream Day - USA

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day is celebrated on June 7 of every year in USA. 

Chocolate Ice Cream, which is the second most common flavour, surpassed only by Vanilla flavour. The Chocolate Ice Cream has been in existence for over a hundred years, and since the 19th century, it has been popular in the United States of America. The Chocolate Ice Cream is made by blending cocoa powder with the eggs, cream, vanilla and sugar. The cocoa powder will give a brown colour to the ice cream. The earliest ice cream flavors were modeled after drinks, so chocolate naturally came before vanilla because hot chocolate was very popular in 17th-century Europe. In fact, the first frozen chocolate recipe was published in 1692 Naples in the book “The Modern Steward,” and much later chocolate ice cream found its way to the U.S. This day falls on June 7 to help us channel our inner Willy Wonka and pay tribute to this decadently frosty treat.

07 June - World Food Safety Day

World Food Safety Day is an observance sponsored by the United Nations. The day aims to bring awareness and emphasize the importance of producing and distributing food properly. The United Nations estimates 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses every year. Unsafe food can be extremely harmful to everyone, especially women and children. An estimate of three million people die every year due to food or water related diseases. World Food Safety Day happens annually on June 7th.

06 June - Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj crowned king in 1674

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was crowned king of the Maratha Empire

A Fierce warrior, the unifier of the Hindus, and the Mughals' worst enemy, Chhatrapati Shivaji was a valiant king and a secular ruler who respected all religions equally. The founder of the Maratha empire was formally crowned as Chhatrapati of Raigad on this day, June 6, in the year 1674.


Over the course of his life, Shivaji engaged in both alliances and hostilities with the Mughal Empire, Sultanate of Golkonda and Sultanate of Bijapur, as well as European colonial powers. Shivaji's military forces expanded the Maratha sphere of influence, capturing and building forts, and forming a Maratha navy. Shivaji established a competent and progressive civil rule with well-structured administrative organisations. He revived ancient Hindu political traditions and court conventions and promoted the usage of Marathi and Sanskrit, rather than Persian language, in court and administration.

06 June - National Yo-Yo Day

A yo-yo (also spelled yoyo) is a toy consisting of an axle connected to two disks, and a string looped around the axle, similar to a spool. It is played by holding the free end of the string known as the handle (by inserting one finger—usually the middle or index finger—into a slip knot), allowing gravity (or the force of a throw and gravity) to spin the yo-yo and unwind the string (similar to how a pullstring works). The player then allows the yo-yo to wind itself back to the player's hand, exploiting its spin (and the associated rotational energy). This is often called "yo-yoing".

In the simplest play, the string is intended to be wound on the spool by hand; The yo-yo is thrown downwards, hits the end of the string then winds up the string toward the hand, and finally the yo-yo is grabbed, ready to be thrown again. One of the most basic tricks is called the sleeper, where the yo-yo spins at the end of the string for a noticeable amount of time before returning to the hand.

Nice stamps issued on the theme by Venezuela and Guatemala.

06 June - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden

Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union

Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560,previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm (Riksföreståndare) from 1521, during the ongoing Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Gustav rose to lead the rebel movement following the Stockholm Bloodbath, where his father was executed. Gustav's election as king on 6 June 1523 and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later marked Sweden's final secession from the Kalmar Union.