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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 4h

#nearthisday 1935 English botanist Arthur Tansley introducesd concept of ecosystem "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment published, as yet untested with mammals but telated testing with quantum states done. #nearthisday 1936 Death of last recorded thylacine Jessie Owens wins 3 olympic golds

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#nearthisday 1934 Percy Shaw patents cat's eye device for roads Norman Haworth & Edmund Hirst first synthesise vitamin C Bonnie and Clyde killed Leave the poor spiky creature's brain alone www.jstor.org/stable/92257

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#neartgisday 1933 A lot of bad things begin snd continue in Germany. I'll let you go and read better sources than this about it. King Kong premiered 1st televised boxing match, between middleweights Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri, airs on BBC

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#nearthisday 1932 Balsa wood surfboards become a thing thewaveshack.com/surfing-theo... JBS Haldane published The Causes of Evolution, unified Mendelian genetics with evolutionary science Amelia Earhart completed the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman, landing after 17h in Norn Iron

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The Evolution of the Surfboard - Surfing Stories - The Wave Shack

Researching the evolution of the surfboard? This post contains everything you'd want to know about the surfboards past, present and future.

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#nearthisday 1931 Hawke's Bay New Zealand earthquake, killed 256 and injured thousands Al Capone is convicted on five of the 23 counts of tax evasion Empire State Building opened in New York City Tom Blake patented his hollow surfboard design

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#nearthisday 1930 Tom Blake continues his development of a modified Olo surfboard, creating the cigar box boards Mahatma Gandhi began his famous 200-mile (320 km) march against the British salt tax The first FIFA World Cup was held, in Uruguay. Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 in the final

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#nearthisday 1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin made round-the-world flight US Admiral Richard Byrd became first person to fly over the South Pole CB van Niel announced discovery that photosynthesis is a light-dependent redox reaction Stock market crashes on Wall St. triggered the Great Depression

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#nearthisday 1928 Griffith indirectly proved the existence of DNA Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovered the antibiotic Penicillin, forgotten since Ernest Duchesne's original discovery in 1896 John Logie Baird demonstrated first color television transmission

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#neartgisday 1927 Last known specimens of the Syrian Wild Ass died Ford Motor Company mafe the last (15 millionth) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie The Jazz Singer directed by Alan Crosland and starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, is released as first film with a synchronized soundtrack

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#nearthisday 1926 How frogs and such www.jstor.org/stable/92141 First vaccine for pertussis The aerosol spray can patented by Erik Rotheim Harry Ferguson granted a British patent for his 'Duplex' hitch linking tractor and plough. John Logie Baird gave 1st public demonstration of television

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#nearthisday in 1925 Extinction of Bubal hartebeest in North Africa Thijsse's Hof opened, 1st wildlife garden in Netherlands Charlie Chaplin released silent film The Gold Rush which he wrote, directed and starred in Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five began their 1st recording session, Okeh Records

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#nearthisday in 1924 California grizzly bear last sighted Hans Berger recorded 1st human electroencephalogram Johnson & Johnson began mass producing Band-Aid John Logie Baird sent basic television pictures a short distance 1st Winter olympics Hubble announced galaxies Tom Blake went to Hawai'i

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#nearthisfay 22 Sep 1923 First diphtheria vaccine by Gaston Ramon, Emil von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō Peter Kaisen recovered the first known Velociraptor fossil Roy Chapman Andrews expedition finds first fossil dinosaur eggs, Oviraptor. Howard Carter and team opened Tutankhamun's tomb

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#nearthisday 19 Sep 1921 & 20 Sep 1922 1st BCG vaccination against tuberculosis. Last known wild Barbary lion shot in Atlas Mountains of Morocco 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty; Ireland received dominion status; partition created Northern Ireland 1922 Irish Civil War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_in...

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#nearthisday 18 Sep 1920 Measles and investigatung periodicity www.jstor.org/stable/92048 The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast is made Dr. Frederick Banting of Ontario first records his insight on how to isolate insulin for the treatment of diabetes League of Nations holds 1st council

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#nearthisday 17 Sep 1919 First air crossings of Atlantic Ocean Albert Cushing in flying boat made stopping crossing John Alcock & Arthur Whitten Brown in a Vickers made 1st nonstop flight St John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland. Treaty of Versailles ends World War I & set up League of Nations

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#nearthisday 16 sep 1918 RA Fisher shows continuous variation can be the result of Mendelian (the chap with the peas) inheritance. 'Spanish' flu arrived, will kill ~50 million people. www.onthisday.com/articles/the... Charles Strite invents the pop-up toaster. World War I Armistice signed

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The 1918 Flu Pandemic

A village in Alaska was almost wiped out on this day as the 1918 flu pandemic took its toll. Are there lessons for the world in how to combat future pandemics?

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#nearthisday 15 Sep 1917 French-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle, working in Paris, announced his discovery of bacteriophage Ernest Rutherford (at the Victoria University of Manchester) achieved nuclear transmutation of nitrogen into oxygen, in which he discovered and named the proton.

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#nearthisday 14 Sep 1916 British Royal Army Medical Corps carried out first successful blood transfusion using stored and cooled blood Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation in Dublin Battle of the Somme in World War I, 5 miles of mudcost 1 million casualties.

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#nearthisday 13 Sep 1915 Walter Bradford Cannon coined term fight or flight to describe animal's response to threats World War 1 saw use of chlorine gas as poison, as well as Gallipoli and Champagne offensives. Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge for £6,600 and later donated it to the British nation

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#nearthisday 12 sep 1914 Archduke of Austria & wife Sophie assassinated by Bosnian-Serb assassin in Sarajevo, setting off chain of events that lead to World War I Foxtrot first danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden in New York City Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies, in Cincinnati Zoo

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#nearthisday 11 Sep 1913 Altitude effects are still being studied www.jstor.org/stable/92005 William Temple Hornaday published Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation. Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield,

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#nearthisday 10 Sep 1912 A good place to go climbing and biking www.jstor.org/stable/91981 The Titanic sunk. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, stuck in a tent near the South Pole, mades his last diary entry "the end cannot be far"

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Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Over 6,000 people die by suicide a year in Britain & Ireland Suicide is not inevitable. You can interrupt someone’s suicidal thoughts. You could save a life. If you think someone might be suicidal, take action, interrupt their thoughts & show them you care ow.ly/gXmI50ZLQOP

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#nearthisday 09 Sep 1911 Was going to post one about thyroid and remind you of the 4 paper series i coauthored but the title of this intrigued me www.jstor.org/stable/91968 Hiram Bingham rediscoversed Machu Picchu Lost City of the Incas Roald Amundsen's Antarctic expedition 1st to reach South Pole

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#nearthusday 07.Sept 1910 Chicago cardiologist James B. Herrickt 1st published finding sickle cells in blood of a patient with anemia 1st seaplane takeoff from water under own power, piloted by Henri Fabre in Étang de Berre lagoon, Martigues, France Photography tips www.nature.com/articles/084...

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The Photographic Annual, 1910–11, Incorporating the Figures, Facts, and Formulae of Photography A Guide to their Practical Use - Nature

Nature - The Photographic Annual, 1910–11, Incorporating the Figures, Facts, and Formulae of Photography A Guide to their Practical Use

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#nearthisday 06 Sep 1909 Danish plant physiologist Wilhelm Johannsen introduced the term "Gene" Ivy Evelyn Woodward admitted as 1st woman Member of Royal College of Physicians Louis Bleriot 1st man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft Bakelite invented.

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#nearthisday 05 Sep 1908 Birdnose? www.jstor.org/stable/91954 Tunguska event in Siberia The first of Henry Ford's Ford Model T automobiles produced in Detroit Robert Baden-Powell published "Scouting for Boys"

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#nearthisday 04 Sep 1907 George Soper identified "Typhoid Mary" Mallon as asymptomatic carrier of typhoid in New York Dengue fever shown to be second disease to be caused by virus Ivan Pavlov demonstrated conditioned responses with salivating dogs Last confirmed sighting of a Huia in New Zealand

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#nearthisday 03 Sep 1906 Water in trees www.jstor.org/stable/91942 Clemens Peter von Pirquet and Béla Schick coin term allergy Andrey Markov produced his 1st theories on Markov chain processes International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selected SOS · · · – – – · · · as worldwide standard

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#nearthisday 02 sep 1905 Parasitic fungi www.jstor.org/stable/91891 Terms genetics and hormone entered English language Paul de Vivie invented 2-speed rear-wheel derailleur for bikes Albert Einstein's paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies; special theory of relativity

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#nearthisday 01 Sep 1904 Epinephrine first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz. Fiordland National Park in New Zealand created Entente Cordiale settlee long-standing disagreements between UK and France over Morocco, Egypt, Africa, and the Pacific Trans-Siberian Railway completed

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#nearthisday 30 Aug 1902 Valerios Stais found Antikythera mechanism, considered to be oldest known analogue computer Mountain gorilla discovered by Captain Robert von Beringe #nearthisday 31 Aug 1903 Carl Chun described type specimen of vampire squid First cowboy film "Kit Carson" premiered

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

#nearthisday 29 Aug 1901 Don't eat this lotus www.jstor.org/stable/91879 Okapi found in the rainforests around Congo River, north east Zaire Edmund Selous published Bird Watching in the UK, birdwatching becomes a term Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob a train of $40,000 in Wagner, Montana

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#nearthisday 27 28 Aug 1899 1900 Nervy birds www.jstor.org/stable/91839 Not gin www.jstor.org/stable/91813 National Trust in UK acquired first part of Wicken Fen, making it the country's oldest wetland nature reserve Richard J Ussher and Robert Warren published The Birds of Ireland

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#nearthisday 26 Aug 1898 Venomous poison? doi.org/10.1111/j.10... Émile Zola published open letter "J'accuse" accusing French government of framing Alfred Dreyfus for sabotage Canadian-American adventurer Joshua Slocum arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, completing 1st solo circumnavigation of globe

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#nearthisday 25 Aug 1897 Light and an enzyme www.jstor.org/stable/91824 Aspirin synthesised and marketed by Felix Hoffmann at Bayer Malaria causing Plasmodium found in mosquitoes, confirmed theory of spread Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker published Balloon expedition to North Pole

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#missedthatday 22-24 August 1894-1896, i got busy living. a selection Patrick Manson theorised mosquitoes spread malaria 1st international meeting for protection of birds held in Paris German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays Spyridon Louis of Greece won inaugural Olympic marathon

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#nearthisfay 21 Aug 1893 Johns Hopkins Medical School opened Daniel H. Williams completed the 1st successful open heart surgery Henri Desgrange sets world's 1st bicycle speed record, 35.32 kmph Gaelic League founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill to encourage Irish people to speak the language

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#nearthatday 20 Aug 1892 Viruses first described by biologist Dmitri Ivanovsky John Muir founded environmental organization the Sierra Club in San Francisco 1st human test of vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine risked his life by successfully testing it on himself

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#nearthatday 19 Aug 1891 New Zealand set aside Resolution Island Fiordland as nature reserve Great train robbery by the Dalton Gang: Southern Pacific #17 Public demo of Kinetograph moving pictures Crompton & Co introduce electric kettle Michelin patent removable pneumatic bicycle tire

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#nearthisday 18 Aug 1890 Breathe www.jstor.org/stable/91723 Sequoia National Park created in USA Francis Galton gave statistical demonstration of uniqueness and classifiability of individual human fingerprints

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#nearthisday 17 Aug 1889 Heartbeat www.jstor.org/stable/91715 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds founded in Manchester, (originally "The Plumage League") campaigning plumage in women's clothing Hugo de Vries published Intracellular Pangenesis, postulated genes. Eiffel Tower opens

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#nearthisday 16 Aug 1888 A lot of interest in biological structure and function www.jstor.org/stable/i205885 The Marine Biological Association of UK opened laboratory in Plymouth Francis Galton introduced correlation in statistics Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz named the chromosome

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#nearthisday 15 Aug 1887 Dirty air www.jstor.org/stable/91702 Petri dish created by German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri Rocky Mountains Park Act in Canada creating nation's first national park, Banff

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#nearthisday 14 Aug 1886 going round? www.jstor.org/stable/109492 Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women founded by Dr Sophia Jex-Blake Josephine Cochrane patented 1st commercially successful automatic dishwasher Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland, celebrated with confetti

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#nearthisday 13 Aug 1885 sticking magnets to fridges? www.jstor.org/stable/109467 Hans Driesch performed a form of artificial cloning on sea urchin embryo 1st successful appendectomy performed by Dr. William W. Grant Louis Pasteur successfully gives rabies vaccine to 9-year-old Joseph Meister

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#nearthisday 12 Aug 1884 fittingly eclipsical www.jstor.org/stable/109444 Edwin Abbott Abbott (as "A Square") published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Angelo Moriondo of Turin granted a patent for espresso machine Thomas Parker built a practical production electric car in Wolverhampton

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On the Total Solar Eclipse of May 17, 1882 | JSTOR

W. de W. Abney, Arthur Schuster, On the Total Solar Eclipse of May 17, 1882, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 175, 1884

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AJ Poots PhD FLS @ajpoots-phd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

nearthisday 11 Aug 1883 The last quagga died at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam :( Krakatoa volcano erupted, force of 200 megatons, killed ~36k people Orient Express departed on first official journey, Paris to Istanbul

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