Learn about the history of science by reading about the significant scientific events that took place on this day in history.
2001 - Mars Odyssey launched.
NASA
NASA launched the Mars Odyssey probe to Mars. The Odyssey would arrive at the red planet on October 24, 2001. Its mission is to orbit and map Mars while relaying surface rover data back to Earth.
1964 - IBM announces the System/360 mainfraim computer line.
Ben Franske
The IBM System/360 was a family of computers and peripherals that would run the same code and applications for commercial and scientific use. It was designed to use 8-bit addressing and carried anywhere from 8 kB to 256 kB of main memory. It was one of the first successful computer lines and would be the basis for business computing for many years.
1899 - Louis Frederick Fieser was born.
Fiesser was an American organic chemist who was the first to synthesize vitamin K. He is also known for the invention of the military weapon, napalm.1859 - Jacques Loeb was born.
Loeb was a German-American physiologist best known for his experiments on parthenogenesis, or reproducing without male fertilization. Loeb managed to artificially cause sea urchin eggs to develop by slightly changing the chemistry of the water.1823 - Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles died.
Charles was a French physicist and inventor who described the relationship between the volume and absolute temperatures of ideal gases known as Charles's Law. He also built the first hydrogen filled balloon and the first manned hydrogen filled balloon.
