Today in science

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