Nikolas Tesla worldwide celebratioins of his150th Birthday

The Croatian Sabor (Parliament) passed a resolution declaring 2006 to be Nikola Tesla Year, 150 years after his birth. July 19th has been declared Nikolas Tesla day by UNESCO and Belgrade International Airport has been renamed in his honour.

Ericsson Nikola Tesla is also co-organizing an international conference under the title "Life and work of Nikola Tesla", that will take place on June 28 and 29 in Zagreb.

Tesla is an unremarked genius and was a great visionary, alternating currents and electric power transmission being his most important concerns - without which we would not have distributed pwer systems we rely on today. He contributed to other areas as well such as research and development of turbines, remote control, lighting, lasers, application of high frequency currents in medicine, research of x-ray instruments, etc. described in 112 patents of the US Patent Office as well as in numerous other documents.

St. George Serbian Church, Niagara Falls, Ontario has successfully negotiated and secured a World destination site, of an outstanding design, for the establishment of a significant monument to Nikola Tesla within Queen Victoria Park. The Nikola Tesla Memorial is scheduled to be unveiled at Niagara Falls on Sunday, July 9, 2006 marking the 150th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's birth. (Which UNESCO wants to call Nikolas Tesla Day)

The Tesla Memorial Society of New York is a good place to start to learn about him.