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File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s. | File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s. | ||
||1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown. | |||
||1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West. | |||
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube. | File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube. | ||
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||1969 – At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. | ||1969 – At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. | ||
||2011 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. | |||
||2012 – Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. | |||
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2016: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the [[Hanford Site (nonfiction)|Hanford Site]]. | File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2016: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the [[Hanford Site (nonfiction)|Hanford Site]]. | ||
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Revision as of 14:34, 16 July 2017
1810: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.
1910: Physicist John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube.
1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
2016: Synthetic organism Ultravore begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the Hanford Site.