Search examples: Microsoft | 2015 | 2014/10 | 4.12 | 04/20 | 05/26/1980 | Galileo Galilei

Science on the 17th of July in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
17 Jul 1698 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis	science	birth Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (died 1759)	0
17 Jul 1790 Johann II Bernoulli	science	death Johann II Bernoulli Johann II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born 1710)	0
17 Jul 1851 John Farey	science	death John Farey John Farey (born 1791), mechanical engineer and technical writer.	0
17 Jul 1867 Boston, Massachusetts	science	Boston, Massachusetts (medicine) In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.	0
17 Jul 1894 Georges Lemaître	science	birth Georges Lemaître Georges Lemaître (died 1966), Belgian physicist.	0
17 Jul 1912 Henri Poincaré	science	death Henri Poincaré Henri Poincaré (born 1854), French mathematician.	0
17 Jul 1929 Robert H. Goddard	science	Robert H. Goddard (astronomy and space ) Robert H. Goddard tests the first rocket to carry scientific instruments (a barometer and a camera).	0
17 Jul 1954 Angela Kasner	science	birth Angela Kasner Angela Kasner, German physical chemist and Chancellor.	0
17 Jul 1962 Penumbral lunar eclipse	science	Penumbral lunar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Penumbral lunar eclipse.	0
17 Jul 1975 Apollo-Soyuz	science	Apollo-Soyuz (astronomy and space ) Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.	0
17 Jul 1975 Terence Tao	science	birth Terence Tao Terence Tao, Australian-born mathematician.	0
17 Jul 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse	science	Hyatt Regency walkway collapse (technology) Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Structural failure due to a late design change causes two internal suspended walkways at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri to collapse, killing 114.	0
17 Jul 1989 Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit	science	Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit (technology) The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber" aircraft, developed for the United States Air Force, first flies.	0
17 Jul 1998 tsunami	science	tsunami (geology) A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 1,500, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.	0
17 Jul 1998 Biologists	science	Biologists (physiology and medic) Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.	0

16th July 18th July

Like us on

Onthisday

Follow us on

Tweets av @OnThisDayNet

Link to results

What happened on this day in history?

OnThisDay.net is your complete guide to find out what happened on this day in History. The front page on this site shows you a series of important happenings and you can browse them buy categories such as births, deaths, events, science, history, music, news and holidays. We have also added an anniversary tab displaying happenings deserving extra attention today. If you are missing an important happening we made it easy for you to add it to the list. Just click add event, fill out the form and your suggestion will be revised by one of our staff. Please feel free to vote on your favourite events. This will help us in our effort to display the most popular events first and make the site more interesting for the next visitor, as events with many votes eventually will be shown first.