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1992 Event - Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble
1987 Event - Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks 1984 Event - Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine 1971 Event - Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens 1971 Death - Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologist (Nature and Destiny of Man), dies at 78 1948 Event - "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time 1933 Birthday - Earl of Cranbrook, CEO, Nature Conservancy Council 1920 Event - H Shapley and H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae 1910 Death - William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies 1907 Birthday - Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon, Illinois, TV scientist, Nature of Things 1905 Event - Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam 1892 Birthday - Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S., theologian, Nature and Destiny of Man 1892 Event - Sierra Club forms by John Muir for conservation of nature 1891 Birthday - Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor, Nature of Music 1888 Death - James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies 1876 Birthday - Hans Bethge, born in Dessau, Germany, writer, short stories, essays, plays, poetry on love, nature, works include, 'Agyptische Reise' 'Egyptian Journey' 1868 Birthday - Mary Austin, Illinois, feminist/nature writer, Land of Little Rain 1846 Death - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73 1837 Birthday - John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast, Burroughs Medal namesake 1836 Birthday - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, founder, Nature magazine 1831 Birthday - J. W. Richard Dedekind, Germany mathematician, Nature and Meaning of Numbers 1829 Death - Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85 1824 Birthday - William Higgins, discoverer, nature of spiral nebulae 1803 Event - William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature" 1799 Death - John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68 1773 Birthday - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat 1711 Birthday - David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher, Treatise of Human Nature 1702 Death - Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies 1680 Death - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 41 1680 Death - John Swammerdam, anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43 1637 Birthday - John Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist, Bible of Nature |
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