In this first video, we review the first fortnight of notable events that occurred in science during the month of October. October in history:
October 15, 1997: Launch of the Cassini probe from Cape Canaveral on the way to Saturn
October 15, 2003: China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission
October 14, 1947: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time by flying a Bell – the first supersonic flight in history.
October 13, 1773: Astronomer Charles Messier discovers M51, later known as the Whirlpool Galaxy
October 12, 2011: Dennis Ritchie, who assisted in the design and development of Unix, and developed the C programming language, passes away
October 10, 1897: Felix Hoffman extracts salicylic acid from willow, the predecessor of aspirin.
October 10, 1731: Henry Cavendish is born, who discovered hydrogen, calculated the density of the Earth and formulated Coulomb’s Law
October 9, 1962 – Nick Holonyak Jr showed the world the world’s first visible LED light-emitting diode
October 8, 1895: German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays
October 8, 1954: Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938, dies.
October 7, 1885: Niels Bohr, Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the structure of the atom and quantum mechanics, is born
October 6, 1889: Thomas Edison presents his first film with a kinetoscope
October 5: World Teachers’ Day according to UNESCO
October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches the first SPUTNIK satellite
October 4, 1947: Max Planck, founder of Quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, dies.
October 2, 1955: At 11:45 p.m. on October 2, 1955, ENIAC, the first fully digital computer in history, is deactivated forever.
October 1, 1958: Inauguration of NASA in the United States.
October 1, 1982: The world’s first CD player, the Sony CDP-101, goes on sale in Japan at around 1,500 euros today.
October 1, 1969: The Concorde 001 (F-WTSS) exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1) for the first time.
October 1, 1972: The paleoanthropologist and archaeologist Louis Leakey dies.
