No real time to post anything substantial - still grading and we have job candidates in this coming week. Still, here’s something to keep you amused.
Events
1808 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society was held in Edinburgh.
1972 - The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched
1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
Births
1779 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist
1862 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist
Deaths
1729 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist
1830 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician
1840 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer
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Events
1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society is held.