Science

First Halloween

800 BCE

The Celts believed that the spirits of the dead roamed the towns and villages on the night of October 31.

Democritus

460 BCE

Atoms are solid, homogenous, indestructible, and invisible

Aristotle

384 BCE

Atoms didn't exist

First Clock

Oct 5, 1656

Christiaan Huygens' invented the first pendulum clock,

Joseph Proust

Oct 5, 1733

credited with the discovery of oxygen

Antonie Lavosier

Oct 5, 1743

one of the first to use an analytical balance to monitor chemical reactions

John Dalton

Oct 5, 1766

All atoms of a given element are identical, having the same size, mass, and chemical properties. Atoms are specific elements are different from those of any other element.

Amadeo Avogadro

Oct 5, 1776

hypothesis states that at the same temperature and pressure, equal volumes of gases contain the same number of molecules or atoms.

First Computer

Oct 5, 1833

Charles Babbage invented the first modern day computer

JJ Thompson

Oct 5, 1856

Determined the ratio of its charge to its mass

Max Planck

Oct 5, 1858

searching for an explanation as he studied the light emitted from heat objects

Robert Milikan

Oct 5, 1868

His oil drop experiment helped to quantify the charge of an electron, which contributed greatly to our understanding of the structure of the atom and atomic theory.

Ernest Rutherford

Oct 5, 1871

well-known gold foil experiment in which he demonstrated that the atom has a tiny, heavy nucleus.

Williams Crookes

Oct 5, 1875

discovery of the element thallium and for his cathode-ray studies, fundamental in the development of atomic physics.

Louis deBroglie

Oct 5, 1882

Proposed an idea that eventually accounted for the fixed energy levels of Bohr's model

Henry Mossly

Oct 5, 1887

Atoms of each element contain a unique positive charge in their nuclei

Erwin Schrodinger

Oct 5, 1887

furthered the wave-particle theory proposed by deBroglie

James Chadwick

Oct 5, 1891

Showed that the nucleus also contained another subatomic particle, a neutral practical called the neutron

Henri Becquerel

Oct 5, 1896

discovered radioactivity which was an early contribution to atomic theory.

Madame Curie

Oct 5, 1898

discovery of two new elements, radium and polonium.

Werner Heisenberg

Oct 5, 1901

proved to have profound implications for atomic models

Albert Einstein

Oct 5, 1905

electromagnetic radiation has both wavelike and particlelike natures

Niels Bohr

Oct 5, 1913

the hydrogen atom based on quantum theory that energy is transferred only in certain well defined quantities.

First NFL game

Oct 5, 1920

The NFL was founded by; Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Decatur Staleys, Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland Indians Dayton Triangles, Hammond Pros, Massillon Tigers, Muncie Flyers, Rock Island Independents, Rochester Jeffersons

The first Target Store

Oct 5, 1962

Target was known as Good fellow Dry Goods in 1902 and was then later changed to target in 1962. George Dayton is the founder

First Television

Oct 5, 1972

Philo Farnsworth and Charles Francis Jenkins made the first Television

First Cell Phone

Oct 5, 1973

Martian Cooper invented the first Cell Phone

Internet invented

Oct 5, 1983

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

My Birthday

Jun 22, 1999

I was born on June 22, 1999

First olympic games on tv

Oct 5, 2016

The VIII Olympic Winter Games, better known as the 1960 Winter Olympics, were played in Squaw Valley, California from February 18th through 28th, 1960. They were the first Olympic Games to be broadcast on television in the United States.