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| 1) 1753 Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. | 2) 1952 The world's first jetliner, the De Havilland Comet sets off from London to Johannesburg on its maiden flight | 3) 2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. | 4) 1972 The Don't Make A Wave Committee , a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". | 5) 1925 John Thomas Scopes, a teacher in Tennessee, is charged for violating the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial. | ||
| 6) International Compost Awareness Week May 6-12 | 7) 1952 The concept of the integrated circuit the basis for all modern computers,is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer . | 8) 1976 The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California. | 9) 1882 The stethoscope is patented | 10) 1960 The nuclear submarine USS Triton , completes Operation Sandblast , the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth. | 11) 1924 Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. | 12) 1820 Florence Nightingale , the founder of modern nursing, is born |
| 13) 1958 The trade mark Velcro is registered. | 14) 1973 Skylab ,the United States' first space station is launched. | 15) 1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion . | 16) 1960 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in California. | Today 17 ) World Information Society Day | 18) 1980 Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington State, USA - GEOGRAPHY4KIDS: Volcanoes | 19) 1961 The 'Venera program' begins with Venera 1 , the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). |
| 20) World Metrology Day | 21) 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean | 22) International Day for Biological Diversity - 2012: Marine Biodiversity | 23) World Turtle Day | 24) 1883 Brooklyn Bridge, the first steel-wire suspension bridge, opens after 14 years of construction. | 25) 1961 A formal announcement of a lunar landing is made by U.S. President John F. Kennedy. | 26) 1903 Granville T. Woods receives a patent for technology related to trains and electricity. His most noted invention was a system for letting the engineer of a train know how close his train was to others. |
| 27) 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge opens in San Francisco, California. | 28) 585 BC A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, during the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. | 29) 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to climb to the top of Mount Everest | 30) 1832 The Rideau Canal connecting Ottawa and Kingston is opened. | 31) 1997 The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge opens connecting PEI and New Brunswick. |
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Jan: Structure-1 Feb: Energy-2 Mar: Systems-1 Apr: Sustainability May: Systems-2 Jun: Structure-2
