Today in science

I'll make one post everyday about what happened on the particular date in the scientific world. These are copied and pasted from the stranger fruit blog at scienceblogs.

Today in science:

Births

1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic

1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate

1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist

Deaths

1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist

1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer

These have been copied/pasted from answers.com <3


Events
711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
1333 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill - The final battle of the war.
1544 - Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel.
1692 - Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
1760 - The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
1848 - Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.
1863 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid - At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
1873 - William Gosse becomes the first European to discover Ayers Rock (Uluru) and names it in honour of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.
1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.
1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1919 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Cape Spada - The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1940 - World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
1942 - World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
1945 - Montgomery Ward is seized by United States Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders. Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops.
1947 - Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet members were assassinated.
1963 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1964 - Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82.
1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1979 - The Sandinista rebels overthrow the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
1985 - The Val di Stava dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1989 - United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
1989 - Charles Sturt University, Australia established in honour of explorer Charles Sturt.
1994 - Four 26-pound ceiling tiles fall from the roof of the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, just hours before a scheduled Seattle Mariners game.
2006 - Dublin City FC cease trading and withdraw from the Eircom Premier League.


These aren't specifically scientific, but they did happen on July 19th.

Events

1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.

1976 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.

1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.

Births

1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist

1822 - Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics

1897 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1909 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer

1947 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

D3V's is more like a history lesson. Hey, now, a History Forum would be pretty neat.

/Scurries off to promote a History Forum

Events

1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.

1969 - Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.

1983 - The world’s lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−129°F).

Births

1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer

1710 - Paul Möhring, German physician

1810 - Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist

1923 - Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer

You knew that was coming.

Lol, I had assumed if anyone read this thread something had to have been mentioned.

Events

1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.

1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.

Births

1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician

1886 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist

1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1773 - George Edwards, English naturalist

1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician

1916 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate

Births

1794 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist

Deaths

1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1986 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist

Events

1963 - Syncom 2, the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.

Deaths

1960 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist and co-discoverer of the Michaelis-Menten equations