Science Teachers’ Assocation of NSW inc 2018 – 19 Calendar
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INTERNATIONAL LEFT-HANDERS DAY
WORLD MOSQUITO DAY
1897, Ronald Ross made a break-through when he discovered malaria parasites during a mosquito dissection. The day is designated in celebration of his important discovery.
1874 death of John Rennie, English engineer who completed London Bridge from the design of his father, also John Rennie( 1761-1821).
1984, DNA fingerprinting was discovered in Leicester, UK, by Alec Jeffreys, from X-ray films of his tests for family genetic markers.
AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP DAY
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DAY( ACT)
1777 birth of Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist, called‘ the father of electro-magnetism’, after his 1820 discovery that an electric current in a wire induces a magnetic field.
2006, Voyager 1( launched Sep 1977) reached 100 AU from the sun( about 15 billion km). Having a nuclear power source, it continues to beam back information.
1601 birth of Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician who has been called the founder of the modern theory of numbers.
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1896 birth of Laurence M. Gould, US explorer and scientist who was the first geologist to reach the interior of the Antarctic continent.
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1831, Michael Faraday wound a thick iron ring on one side with insulated wire that was connected to a battery, then wound the opposite side with wire connected to a galvanometer and discovered induction.
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1888, George Eastman was issued a U. S. patent for his box camera and registered the trademark name: Kodak. This was the first mass-produced camera and it brought photography to the general market.
1978, U. S. scientists announced the production of humantype insulin by a strain of E. coli bacteria, that had been genetically engineered after many trials with gene-splicing techniques.
1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger( Thylacine) died at the Hobart Zoo.
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1901 birth of Alexander Langmuir, American epidemiolo-gist who led the Epidemic Intelligence Service for the U. S. government and was credited with saving thousands of lives with his revolutionary work.
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1819 birth of Foucault, French physicist, whose pendulum experiment, 5 Jan 1851, proved that the Earth rotates on its axis.
INDIGENOUS LITERACY DAY
1888 birth of David Marine, US pathologist, whose substantial research on the treatment of goitre with iodine led to the iodising of table salt.
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2002 death of Nils Bohlin, Swedish engineer who invented the 3-point lap and shoulder seatbelt, one of the most important innovations in automobile safety.
1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of the Earth from the Moon. In grainy black and white, the earthrise picture used computer imaging that was then in its infancy.
1831, Josiah Wedgwood II, uncle of Charles Darwin, persuaded Charles’ father to allow his son to join the Beagle voyage.
1804 birth of John Gould, author of 41 lavishly illustrated volumes on birds worldwide. His Birds of Australia( 1840-69) was significant as the first comprehensive record of the continent’ s birds and mammals.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
1969, the Murchison meteorite landed in Australia. 100-kg of it has been recovered and 92 different amino acids identified within it, only 19 of which are found on Earth.
1973, the first scan was made using CAT( Computer Assisted Tomography).
1859 death of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English engineer of great productivity and originality, who designed the first transatlantic steamer, docks, tunnels, bridges, viaducts and railways,
1839 death of Friedrich Mohs, German mineralogist, devised Mohs scale to compare mineral hardness; based on ten common minerals ranked by which can scratch another.
1883, Mount Krakatoa erupted destroyed 2 / 3 of its island, produced huge tsunami waves, killed an est. 36,000 people and pushed up dust that changed the atmosphere around the world for several years.
FATHER’ S DAY
1987, signing of Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Most ozonedepleting compounds, e. g. CFCs, were to be phased out by 2000; a target mostly achieved.
1846, dentist Dr. William Morton used an experimental anesthetic, ether, for the first time on a patient in Boston for tooth extraction.
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— 5— Science dates compiled by Sue Siwinski