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