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File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)]] 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: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:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village". | File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village". | ||
||1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people. | |||
||1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. | |||
||1959 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative. | |||
||1969 – At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. | |||
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Revision as of 18:50, 16 June 2017
1810: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction) 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".