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Selected anniversaries in November

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November 1:

• 1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage

• 1585 – Birth of Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)

• 1704 – Birth of Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist (d. 1779)

• 1880 – Birth of Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)

• 1950 – Birth of Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1993 – Death of Severo Ochoa, Spanish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)

November 2:

• 1885 – Birth of Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)

• 1894 – Birth of Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)

• 1911 – Birth of Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)

• 1944 – Death of Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)

• 1957 – The Levelland UFO case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history

• 1966 – Death of Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)

• 1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT

November 3:

• 1643 – Death of John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)

• 1643 – Death of Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)

• 1749 – Birth of Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)

• 1863 – Birth of Alfred Perot, French physicist (d. 1925)

• 1893 – Birth of Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)

• 1918 – Death of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)

• 1933 – Death of Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)

• 1938 – Birth of Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician

• 1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet

• 1994 – Death of Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen, American Physicist (b. 1910)

November 4:

• 1652 – Death of Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)

• 1698 – Death of Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)

• 1765 – Birth of Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)

• 1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell

• 1908 – Birth of Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)

• 1984 – Dell Computers is founded as PC's Limited

• 1986 – Death of Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)

November 5:

• 1743 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

• 1854 – Birth of Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

• 1855 – Birth of Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)

• 1879 – Death of James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)

• 1892 – Birth of J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)

• 1906 – Birth of Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)

• 1944 – Death of Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)

• 1948 – Birth of William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel laureate

• 1952 – Birth of Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist

• 1992 – Death of Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)

• 2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon

November 6:

• 1656 – Death of Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)

• 1771 – Death of John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)

• 1822 – Death of Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)

• 1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

• 1950 – Birth of Amir Aczel, lecturer in mathematics

• 1964 – Death of Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)

November 7:

• 1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France

• 1867 – Birth of Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)

• 1872 – Death of Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)

• 1888 – Birth of Sir C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

• 1898 – Birth of Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)

• 1903 – Birth of Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)

• 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)

• 1915 – Birth of Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)

• 1929 – Birth of Eric R. Kandel, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• 1968 – Death of Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)

• 2001 – The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus

November 8:

• 1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public

• 1656 – Birth of Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)

• 1719 – Death of Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)

• 1848 – Birth of Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925)

• 1854 – Birth of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)

• 1868 – Birth of Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)

• 1885 – Birth of Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)

• 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray

November 9:

• 1731 – Birth of Benjamin Banneker, African-American astrononomer (d. 1806)

• 1874 – Birth of Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)

• 1885 – Birth of Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)

• 1885 – Birth of Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)

• 1897 – Birth of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)

• 1921 – Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect

• 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida

• 1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered

November 10:

• 1605 – Death of Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)

• 1695 – Birth of John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)

• 1918 – Birth of Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

• 1935 – Birth of Bernard Babior, American biochemist

• 1935 – Birth of Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist

• 1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States

• 1990 – Death of Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)

November 11:

• 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x)

• 1686 – Death of Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)

• 1743 – Birth of Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)

• 1884 – Death of Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)

• 1904 – Birth of J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)

• 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator

• 1973 – Death of Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

November 12:

• 1742 – Death of Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)

• 1795 – Birth of Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856)

• 1842 – Birth of John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)

• 1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic

• 1886 – Birth of Günther Dyhrenfurth, German born geologist, geographer and Himalayan explorer (d. 1975)

• 1927 – Birth of Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)

• 1944 – Death of Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)

• 1949 – Birth of Sinyan Shen (沈星扬 or 沈星揚), American physicist and classical composer

• 2003 – With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems

November 13:

• 1878 – Birth of Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)

• 1924 – Birth of Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)

• 1927 – Birth of Billy Klüver, American scientist (d. 2004)

• 1971 – The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars

• 1994 – Death of Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)

November 14:

• 1716 – Death of Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)

• 1746 – Death of Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)

• 1771 – Birth of Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)

• 1797 – Birth of Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)

• 1863 – Birth of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)

• 1896 – The Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, opened

• 1916 – Birth of Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)

• 1932 – Birth of Gunter Sachs, German mathematician

• 2007 – The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.

November 15:

• 1630 – Death of Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)

• 1688 – Birth of Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)

• 1793 – Birth of Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)

• 1819 – Death of Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)

• 1919 – Death of Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)

• 1959 – Death of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)

• 1966 – Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean

• 1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert

November 16:

• 1717 – Birth of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)

• 1779 – Death of Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)

• 1802 – Death of André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)

• 1896 – Birth of Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (d. 1982)

• 1922 – Death of Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)

• 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland

• 1945 – Cold War: Operation Paperclip: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology

• 1974 – Death of Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (b. 1882)

• 1999 – Death of Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)

• 2005 – Death of Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

November 17:

• 1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on Puerto Rico

• 1790 – Birth of August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)

• 1878 – Birth of Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)

• 1902 – Birth of Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

• 1922 – Birth of Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• 1940 – Death of Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)

• 1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observed the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century

• 1970 – Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft

• 1990 – Death of Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

November 18:

• 1477 – William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England

• 1724 – Death of Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)

• 1727 – Birth of Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)

• 1839 – Birth of August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)

• 1897 – Birth of Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

• 1906 – Birth of George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)

• 1941 – Death of Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)

• 1962 – Death of Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)

• 1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service

• 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong

November 19:

• 1700 – Birth of Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)

• 1711 – Birth of Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)

• 1822 – Death of Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)

• 1834 – Birth of Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)

• 1887 – Birth of James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)

• 1900 – Birth of Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)

• 1912 – Birth of George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)

• 1936 – Birth of Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1984 – The SETI Institute is founded

• 1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched

November 20:

• 1602 – Birth of Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)

• 1704 – Death of Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)

• 1764 – Death of Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)

• 1778 – Death of Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)

• 1841 – Birth of Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)

• 1856 – Death of Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)

• 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound

• 1886 – Birth of Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)

• 1889 – Birth of Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)

• 1905 – Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc²

• 1908 – Death of Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)

• 1910 – Birth of Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)

• 1945 – Death of Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)

• 1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax

• 1963 – Birth of Timothy Gowers, British mathematician

• 1976 – Death of Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (b. 1898)

• 2006 – Death of Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)

November 21:

• 1555 – Death of Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)

• 1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile

• 1652 – Death of Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)

• 1859 – Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species is first offered for sale, in London, England

• 1881 – Death of Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)

• 1931 – Birth of Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (d. 1985)

• 1970 – Death of Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)

• 1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed

• 1996 – Death of Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1926)

November 22:

• 1635 – Birth of Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)

• 1897 – Birth of Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)

• 1904 – Birth of Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)

• 1917 – Birth of Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate

• 1944 – Death of Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)

• 1981 – Death of Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)

• 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom

November 23:

• 1553 – Birth of Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)

• 1616 – Birth of John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)

• 1644 – Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published

• 1783 – Death of Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)

• 1820 – Birth of Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)

• 1837 – Birth of Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

• 1887 – Birth of Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)

• 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco

• 1902 – Death of Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)

• 1937 – Death of Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)

• 1937 – Death of George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)

November 24:

• 1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus, an event he had predicted

• 1774 – Birth of Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)

• 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon

November 25:

• 1686 – Death of Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)

• 1694 – Death of Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)

• 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die

• 1703 – Birth of Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)

• 1714 – Birth of Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)

• 1814 – Birth of Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)

• 1841 – Birth of Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)

• 1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

• 1884 – Death of Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)

• 1887 – Birth of Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943)

• 1940 – Birth of Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)

• 1972 – Death of Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)

November 26:

• 1678 – Birth of Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)

• 1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

• 1832 – Birth of Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)

• 1876 – Death of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)

• 1885 – Death of Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b. 1813)

• 1894 – Birth of Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)

• 1904 – Birth of Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)

• 1907 – Birth of Ruth Patrick, American botanist

• 1938 – Birth of Rodney Jory, Australian physicist

• 1940 – Birth of Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician

• 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England

November 27:

• 1701 – Birth of Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)

• 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703

• 1754 – Birth of Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)

• 1754 – Death of Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)

• 1811 – Death of Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)

• 1852 – Death of Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)

• 1871 – Birth of Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)

• 1884 – Death of Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)

• 1903 – Birth of Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)

• 1908 – Death of Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)

• 1909 – Birth of Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)

• 1911 – Birth of Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist

• 1944 – Death of Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)

• 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet

November 28:

• 1520 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific

• 1667 – Death of Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)

• 1801 – Death of Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)

• 1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience

• 1950 – Birth of Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel laureate

• 1954 – Death of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)

• 1987 – Death of Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)

November 29:

• 1759 – Death of Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)

• 1762 – Birth of Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)

• 1803 – Birth of Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)

• 1849 – Birth of Sir John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist (d. 1945)

• 1877 – Birth of Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time

• 1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine

• 1992 – Death of Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)

November 30:

• 1756 – Birth of Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)

• 1768 – Birth of Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)

• 1829 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking

• 1858 – Birth of Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)

• 1869 – Birth of Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)

• 1915 – Birth of Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)

• 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph

• 1936 – Birth of Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician

• 2007 – Death of Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)